RUMANIA'S TERMS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 187, 8 August 1919, Page 5

RUMANIA'S TERMS.

STIFF DEMANDS ON HUNGARY. SURRENDER OF WAR STORES. BIG FOOD STOCKS ASKED FOB. (By Cable.'—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, August 7. A wireless message from Berlin states that Rumania demanded the reduction of the Hungarian army to 15,000, the surrender of all munition factories and military equipment, of 50 per cent of railway material, 30 per cent of agricultural machinery and live stock, 10,000 wagons of maize, and 35,000 wagons of other cereals. A reply is demanded by August 15. The Hungarian Government has appealed to the Entente for intervention, declaring that compliance with the terms is impossible.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) AN UGLY SITUATION. SUPREME COUNCIL DEFIED. BEHAVING AS CONQUERORS. LONDON, August 7. The correspondent of the "Daily Express" at Budapest states that the Rumanians are behaving as if they were occupying the city. They are demanding middle-class inhabitants as well as communists as hostages. They have taken over the transport services, occupied the postal, telegraph, and telephone offices, and have defied the instructions of the Supreme Council to stop 'the advance. They have ignored their assurances to the Italian Mission that no Rumanian troops would intervene in the conduct of affairs. The situation, states the correspondent, is ugly, is likely to lead to bloodshed. Thirty thousand Rumanian troops are in the vicinity of the city. Other troops ere within a day's march. The food situation is acute, and may possibly precipitate disturbances. The Rumanians are imprisoning wholesale persons connected with the late Soviet regime.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) The Supreme Council has decided tliat an inted-Allied mission, consisting of generals, shall be dispatched immediately to Budapest, accompanied by an escort not exceeding a company for each Power. (Router.) It is reported that 5,000,000 crowns (about £208,000 on the pre-war basis) were found in Bela Kun's luggage when he was arrested. The Rumanians have sent an ultimatum to the Hungarian Government demanding a large proportion of the Daiiube shipping, supplies for the Rumanian array of 300,000, and a reduction of the Hungarian army to 15,000.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)