HUNGARY.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1919, Page 5

HUNGARY.

.FIGHTING THE CZECHS. RUSSIAN FORCE EN ROUTE. 1 THE ELECTIONS FIXED. Received April 13, 5,5 p.m. London, April 7. Vienna telegrams report frontier fighting between the Hungarians and Czechs near Pressburg Russia has informed Hungary that armed prisoners of war are en route' to Hungary through Ukraine. The elections of the Budapest Workmen's, Peasants, and Soldiers' Councils, from which the National Council will be formed, are fixed to be held from April 7 to 14. Idle people, capitalists, employers, and priests are disfranchised. The Wurtemburg Government announces that the general strike suddenly collapsed, a considerable number of Spartacist leaders being arrested.

Violent disturbances occurred in Croatia, martial law being proclaimed. The strikes in the Ruhr region have spread and involved a number of Krupps' workmen.

CONFISCATION TACTICS. BOLSHEVIK AGITATORS AT HUNGARIAN LEGATION. Received April 12, 5.5 p.m. Vienna, April 4. The Hungarian Government is taking control of the insurance companies, hotels, and boarding houses, and has ordered the confiscation of all jewellery of over two thousand crowns. The Government has also ordered banks to pay a maximum of two thousand crowns monthly out of private accounts. Thirty Bolshevik agitators have arrived at Vienna and established themselves at the Hungarian Legation.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

GERMAN PRESS PESSIMISTIC. A THIRD REVOLUTION THREATENED. / Received April 13, 5.5 p.m. Rome, April 11. The Messagero learns that, as the result of disorders in Agram following the Radicals' arrest, three hundred people were killed or injured. Whether feigning or sincere, German newspapers are increasingly pessimistic regarding tho Bavarian situation. The Lokal Anzeiger interprets the Extremists' threat not to'allow the Diet to meet as the signal for a third revolution. The Anzeiger adds that Swabia and the Franconia Palatinate are ready to sece'de from Bavaria. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung says the majority of the rural population have secretly armed, (and civil war will inevitably occur if the Extremists at Munich prevail.—Aub.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

NOBLITIES ARRESTED. ADAPTING THEMSELVES TO CRCUMSTANCES. Received April 13, 5.5 p.m. Budapest; April 11, The Socialists at Kesythely arrested the Archduke Josef Franz and Count Julius Comsaicb, who were fleeing to Germany. The Archduke, who was collarleas and muddy, declared he (had underrated the feeling in Hungary. He was quite satisfied with Soviet ideals. He, himself, was a partisan of Lenin's ideas. Many women and girls are joining the Red Army.—Reuter.