REPORTED MOVE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 308, 29 December 1944, Page 5

REPORTED MOVE

HUNGARY ANI) PEACE Debrecken Government Said To Be Seeking Armistice British Official Wireless Rec. 1 p.m. RUGBY, Dec. 28. While the garrison of the Hungarian capital is being relentlessly hemmed into the city itself, Hungary is changing sides. The provisional Government at Debrecen is reported to have declared war on Germany and asked the Allies for armistice terms. , , The Government as a whole can be regarded as a representative and respectable body which should be able to rally the national forces against Germany as the Russians chase them out. An Hungarian provisional Government was formed in Debreczen, in liberated Hungary, on Saturday, says Moscow radio, as reported in a cable message on Tuesday. It has called on Hungarians to break with Hitler and join the United Nations. An appeal which the provisional Government issued said: "We do not want to see the labours of a whole generation in Hungary frustrated through a criminal war. We must not stand inactive while the Red Army alone is liberating our country from the German yoke. Hungary has no Parliament and no leader. Szalasi and his henchmen are usurpers whom the Germans foisted on us. The National Assembly therefore proclaims a war of liberation against the Germans and calls on Hungarians to rally. We want a democratic Hungary. We guarantee the inviolability of private property. A new chapter is opening in Hungarian history." • Moscow radio says the Hungarian provisional Government in a statement of policy asserts that the Government consists of representatives in military circles, democratic parties and also non-party public men and scholars. The British United Press correspondent in Moscow says that Lieutenant-General Bela Miklosz, the Prime Minister of the new Government, commanded the Hungarian First Army, and was the first Hungarian general to go over to the Russians.