HUNGARIAN SOVIET.

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

HUNGARIAN SOVIET.

COMPLETELY. OVERTHROWN. NEW GOVERNMENT FORMED. ARCHDUKE JOSEF AS PREMIER. (Received 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, August 7. Advices received through Paris report that the Cabinet of Herr Gustav Beidl, who assumed the Premiership of Hungary three days ago on the flight of Bela Kun, has been overthrown. The Archduke Josefas established a Government and formed a new Jfinistry, the Allies agreeing to this course. Herr Vaida, a Transylvanian member of the Cabinet, told the "Petit Parisian's" correspondent that the peasants of Nagykanisza ignored Bela Kun's last mobilisation order and 150 were hanged in their own houses. Vaida describes the Beidl Government as a twin brother to Bela Knu'e.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) MONARCHICAL MOVEMENT. OFFER OF THE CROWN TO KING OF RUMANIA. (Received 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, August 7. The Beidl Government, before its overthrow, made a clean sweep of the revolutionary tribunals. Elections will be held about the first of September. Advices from Vienna state that the counter-revolutionary Hungarian Government offered the Crown to King Ferdinand of Rumania. It is stated that the Archduke Josef, when chosen leader of the Government, appointed Herr Fredrich Premier.— ("Times.") The Allied mission to Hungary will superintend the execution of the armistice. It is understood that the Conference's recognition of the new Hungarian Government will depend on the mission's report. It is etated that the Rumanians' ultimatum to the Hungarian Government /ordering the handing over of all military 'equipment threatened drastic steps to .secure fulfilment. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.)