KARL’S DOWNFALL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1921, Page 5

KARL’S DOWNFALL.

A DEFIANT ATTITU . WILL NOT ABDIC .. DIFFICULT POSITION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received Oct. 31, 8.10 p.m. Budapest, Oct. 29. Karl, notwithstanding pressure, still declines to sign the renunciation of the Throne, leading to the Catholic Bishop of Hungary being commissioned to appeal to his religious feelings, and so avoid serious trouble for the country. If his mission fails, the Government will be compelled to depose him, but this is difficult, owing to the attitude of fife Christian nationalists. Received Oct. 31, 9 p.m. Vienna, Oct. 31. The Hungarian Bishop has failed to persuade Karl to abdicate.—Aug.-NX Cable Assn. FEASTING AND DISASTER. ENTENTE DEMANDS SURRENDER. Vienna, Oct. 28. Karl’s supporters knew that some unexplained and extraordinary delay occurred during the monarch's march to Budapest. It is now revealed that when Karl reached Oldenburg, elated with the success attending the plot, he celebrated it with a banquet. He and his adherents had a right royal time with wines and viands of the best, but it cost Karl his entry into the capital. The delay gave Admiral Horthy time to mobilise the student legions and generally strengthen his position. The Entente’s Note demanding the delivery of Karl to the commander of the British flotilla at Budapest, and the immediate proclamation of Karl’s forfeiture of the throne, was handed to the Hungarian Government yesterday. DANGER NOT YET AVERTED. t London, Oct. 30. Karl’s capture, and the promptness of the Allies in demanding his surrender, do not appear to have averted the danger in south-eastern Europe, according to advices from Vienna and Prague. The latter states that the mobilisation of the Czecho-Slovaks’ army, numbering 168 battalions, will be completed in ten days. Martial law has been proclaimed and a number of arrests for plotting against the Republic have occurred. The Premier, M. Benes, speaking in the Assembly, said that Western Europe Under-estimated the Hungarian danger,

which must be ended at once for all time and at any cost in the interests of Czecho-Slovakia and all the Allies. M. Benes paid a tribute to the faultless working of the mobilisation preparations. He assured the Austrian representative that in the event of action against Hungary, Austria’s neutrality would be respected.