UNREST IN HUNGARY.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1921, Page 5

UNREST IN HUNGARY.

DISPUTE OVER TERRITORY. GUERILLA WARFARE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received August 30, 5.5 p.m. London, August 30. The Morning Post’s Vienna correspondent states that affairs in West Hungary have taken a serious turn. An irregular Magyar force attacked a column of Austrian gendarmes, and a number of casualties resulted. Bands of irregulars also surrounded the town of Sopron. with the evident intention of preventing Austria from taking possession of Burgenland, as the Entente arranged for to-day. Austria is too weak to help herself, so the Vienna Cabinet will appeal to the Entente itself to force the surrender of the disputed territory.—Aus.-N.Z. CabL Assn. Received August 30, 10.30 p.m. Vienna, August 29. The insolent plot, engineered in Burgenland, and reminiscent of D’Annunzio and Korfanty, has taken the Inter-Allied Mission and the Austrian authorities by surprise, and the Mission’s force of 200 is inadequate to deal with bands totalling 3000. The attitude of Hungary is interesting, and the , next few hours will confirm or contradict the suspicion that Hungary is conniving at a plot which seems to have been planned to cut off South-Eastern Burgenland, which is to be held as a means of forcing concessions from Austria, but the plah may grow with success. Count Sigray, Government Commissary in West Hungary, has officially notified Budapest that Hungarian troops have evacuated West Hungary.— Times Service.