"HUNGARY FOR PEACE."

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 308, 28 December 1915, Page 6

"HUNGARY FOR PEACE."

INDEPENDENT LEADER'S SPEECH. GOVERNMENT SHOULD RESIGN. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) VANCOUVER, December 25. The Budapest correspondent of the London "Morning Poet" states that a sensation was caused in the Hung.iri.in Parliament by the speech of Count Kar olyi. one of the leaders of the Indcpen dents. The speech was heavily censored, and dispatches to foreign countries were stopped. Count Karolyi argued that Hungary had achieved everything she had wanted in the war. She had saved the country from invasion, and had preserved the monarchy on the throno. Her allies ought not to demand anything further from Hungary. Owing to the fact that the Hungarian army had brought the war to the present stage she had a perfect right to come forward with elnims of compensation. Hungarians had a right to ask that their political unity be recognised; that they should be attributed national status, and given economic independence. Above all, Hungary desired that peace be restored. The Teutonic Allies were in a position to offer peace terms. "We have given proof of our physical courage, we must show moral courage," concluded Count Karolyi. "The Government has committed sins, and has made an error in using the censorship to hide I ite faults. We are justified in demanding that the Government act in accordance with the wishes of the nation, and resign."