CRISIS IN HUNGARY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13307, 5 April 1941, Page 8

CRISIS IN HUNGARY

SUICIDE OP PEIME MINISTER WIFE’S DEATH AN HOUR BEFORE London, April 3. It is officially announced in Budapest that Count Teleki, Hungarian Prime Minister, committed suicide by shooting. Attempts to keep the news of the suicide secret, by announcing death from heart failure, were unsuccessful. The suicide caused the most profound impression. Count Teleki left a letter stating that he felt unable to carry on his difficult and unhappy task. Friends do not know of any personal reason likely to have worried the Prime Minister, but _ the political situation has increasingly distressed him. He has been conferring with members of the Cabinet constantly, concerning Yugoslavia. Count Teleki last night visited his wife, who was confined in a sick room.

Cabinet formally resigned, hut is continuing to function until Admiral Horthy, the Regent, chooses a successor for Count Teleki. The Hungarian Government issued a statement that the whole of the Plungarian nation and all foreign friends of Hungary learned with great emotion, of the tragic death of Count Teleki, which occurred at night and was discovered only this morning. The Hungarian Foreign Office announced that Count Teleki’s wife died an hour before Count Teleki. The deaths were discovered at 9 a.m. when Count Teleki did not appear from his bedroom, and servants entered and found his body. Count Teleki died two months after his collaborator in the Axis negotiations. Count Csaky, Foreign Minister who it was reported, succumbed to influenza. Count Csaky was a comparatively young man. > The Berlin news agency s Budapest correspondent said Count Teleki died suddenly last night apparently du c to heart failure. The British United Press Budapest 'correspondent states that Dr Francis Keresztes-Fischer, who is acting ; primfi Minister of Hungary was responsible for the dissolution of the Hungarian Nazi party after two of its Parliamentary members bad been accused of treachery. He is a mernbe- of the Hungarian Conservative party.