HUNGARY.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1919, Page 5

HUNGARY.

THE SITUATION DESCRIBED. ODMMUNISTS IN OfIABOR deceived April 2, 11.5 p.m. . London, March 20. Printe Windischgratz, a former Hungarian Pood Minister, interviewed at Senev*, declared that Karolyi'g following ccmtht'ed moßtly of nobles ruined by ptmbUkg. Karolyi made many conceauom U the communists until the latter overthrew the Government. The present Govertment only represents Budapest, mostly Jews; but a more logical arrangement than Karolyi's phantom rule are two thousand Anglo-French troops, who are sufficient to restore order in Hungary now, but the situation may be very diflersSt six months later. It is unwise to stnd Czech, Roumanian, and Serbian troop% whose presence will arouse national antipathies. Botakitn, Foreign Minister, was a Journalist and prisoner of. war in Russia, where lie became intimate with Lenin. It is the latter provided funds for flflakun to publish a rampantly communist newspaper at Budapest

NEW LttffiT'QN THE SITUATION. PRQtOSta ALLTANCE AGAINST? ENTENTE. A REt> GUARD BEING ORGANISED. Received April 2, 5.5 p.m. London, April 1. a former fiungarian Minister describes the BttdapeSt Government's statements on the; situation as -ntrue. If the communistic regime continues thousands will starve) to death. The workmen have taken over the factories, resulting in large lumbers of unemployed. It ii reported from Budapest that the Hungarian geviet has made an offer to Germity W form an alliance against the ffltente, and it is rumored that Lenin made a similar offer to the German Government.

Th* Peoples Commissary at Budapest h oreinieing a Bed Guard, consisting of 30,000 dependable volunteers, for the .- purpose of maintaining order. The commasdtt of tie town, who is believed to be a Gennib representative tt Budapest, lias -ordered all Germans to leave Hungitj*.

The 1 miners on strike in the Ruhr ' district have telepranhed the Hungarian Government promising to use every means to establish a German Soviet re-publio.-"Aus. X..J. Cable Assoc.

fBS NEUTRAL ZONE. mtVttnt HUNGARY AND ROUMANIA. Jeeeired April 2, 955 p.m. Vienna, March 26. Colonel Vii, commander of the military fission at Budapest, states that Count Karolyi has misinterpreted the Entente's note regarding the new lines of dß*»reation which are intended to create 1 » aetitral zone between the Hungarisjf and Roumanian troops, and not to estibHari a new political frontier.— Alls. £.2. Cable Assoe.

Karolyi offered to serve the new Government as a private, to assist in the red revolution and destroy capitalists), whose representatives, in Paris were ready to Mduea IfittgftrjrV innocent population to KOLCHAK'S OFFENSIVE. Received April 2, 10.35 p.m. London, March 28. Simultaneously with the npheatal in tfnn<?ary,. General Kolchak, with the Siberian army, commenced a ranid offensive in the east, penetrated through term, and occupied Ufa. This advance las been stopped, and rapid advance iiade ajrainst General Petkmra's forces. *-Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoe. jREITTSH CASUALTIES REPORTED.

Geneva, April 1. It fa reported that several officers and ftMh of the three British monitors at Sudapest were killed bv Hungarian gun-ire.-—AUB.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ALLIED TROOPS CROSS THE FRONTIER, Bucharest, April 1. It is reported that Entente forces B*f* ludad at Kioastadt en route to Hungary.. GERMAN INFLUENCE SUSPECTED. Paris, April 1. Report* from Hungary indicate that Ihe BoliAevijdn there hie been artificially created' for the purpose 1 of securing jasier terms from the Allies. German Influence is suspected.