HUNGARY

Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1919, Page 5

HUNGARY

ROUMANIAN TYRANNY, LOOTING THE CITY, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received August 15, 1.40 a.m. Rome, August 11. Italian newspapers state that the Roumanians continue their exactions at Budapest with pitiless severity. The Roumanian commander refused even to lead the British General's protest on 6ehalf of the Entente, The Roumanians are seizing for themselves the Bolshevik plunder, including valuable jewels, furs, and such trasure troves as abound in the oity. The, Roumanians are masters of the situation, and apparently intend to yield the command to nobody.—Aus.-N Z. Cable Assn. ROUMANIANS MORE REASONABLE. Paris, Aug. 12. It is understood that the Roumanians are ready to meet the representatives of the Allie9 in Hungary.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BOLSHEVIST MALTREATMENT. Budapest, Aug. 11. Sensational stories o'f the maltreatment of the bourgeoisie show that torture chambers were fitted up in vaults under the parliamentary buildings. The favorite method was to show victims dismembered parts of a body, such as arms, legs, noses, and eyes, and offering them a chance of saving their lives if they confessed or paid large sums. The corpses of murdered persons were collected at night and thrown into the Danube heavily weighted. Some of the torturers have been arrested and confessed; one was found in possession of d number of blank execution warrants for political suspects.—Renter.