ABOUT THE ENEMY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16357, 31 October 1918, Page 7

ABOUT THE ENEMY.

FINANCIAL PANIC IN BERLIN, j | (Australian nnd N.Z. Cable Association.) 1 AMSTERDAM, October 29. i Berlin reports stato that there has 1 3 beon a financial panic for sovero.l days.' ;! Tho bankers aro appealing to the pub-| | lie not to withdraw deposits and not to ! t hoard currency. RIOTS AT~BUDAPEST. 1 ■; .4 (Australian and N.Z. Cable ! ii BERNE, Oetobor 29. , ( § There are serious riots at Budapest,', | sj tho capital <5f Hungary. The rioters) | 5 suececdod in getting into the lobbies of. ! sj tho Royal Palace. : The Magyar National Council de- i; mauds the immediate dissolution of the. t '"i! Rcichsrath. | ijjj COUNT KAROLYI FORMS A f 5 MINISTRY. I INDEPENDENCE"OF HUNGARY f-j DECLARED. ' jj '■ COPENHAGEN. Oetoher 30. ' *j' The "Politikon's" Vienna corrcspon-i £ 1 dent states that Count Knrolyi has suo-i | SI reeded in forming an anti-dvnastic Min-i I j istrv. with an understanding with thoj 5 Czechs and Slavs. Count Karolyi. was' f excitedly greeted on returning to Huda-. | pest. Ho announced that he had visited) f \ 1 tho Emporor, who refused to accept his' ' programme. Therefore ho (Count) ; Karolvi) had declared Hungary an in- • } dependent nation. | ji • LUDENDORFF'SPECIAL ENEMY.i j ; (Australian and Cublo Association.) j LONDON. October 29. t ( Tho "Daily Chronicle's" Amsterdami t > correspondent states: —Herr Er:bergerj * was Ludendorff's special enemy. The, | • Contro deputy has'long boon intent or* ji ■ getting Ludendorff's scalp, and recent-' J ly said in tho Reichstag lobby, "I willj * get him yet." LudendorffV nerves are badly shaken. Ho vacillated con-! tinually between peace and war and l opposed Hindenburg when the latter) informed von Hertling's Government! that political changcs were necessary! in order to approach President Wilson.] with a peace ofTer. Later Ludendorff| advocated another gamble on tho West) front, including the Bending out of the. fleet.' AMSTERDAM, October 29. Many newspapers accuse Ludendorff! of endeavouring to creato a military,' conspiracy against tho Reichstag, and l 1 regard him as tho scapegoat for tho I Hohenzollerns. THE SOCIALISTS' SLOGAN. "WORLD REVOLUTION OR WORLD' DESTRUCTION. ' (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) COPENHAGEN, October 29. i Herr Liobknecht, in a great speech in--1 Berlin, said:—The slogan is now world' revolution or world destruction. Thei ; time has come to act. The people's; \ reply to tho appeals for national de-j fence must be tho dictatorship, of tho j proletariat; the overthrow of capitalist; ■ rule, and tho establishment of a Socialist Republic. Thousands of those who. were listening shouted, "Long live its prosident, Lieblcnocht.' 1 A COUP D'ETAT PLANNED ("The Times.") (Received October 30th, 7.40 p.m.? LONDON, October 29. ( Mr Charles Tower writes from The* Hague:—lt is now clear that I/uden-. dorff and Hindenburg planned a coup, | d'etat. On October 25tli Hindenburg\ | jt addressed telegrams to the divisional' 1 j generals, urging a continuance of the' f war in preference to a dishonourable' j peace. A telegram from the former 1 j, stated that President Wilson cxpocted) . the capitulation of the army and navy,; j but they would rather fight to the bit- • . ter end. J p "Vorwaerts" admits that tho alteraL tions in the Constitution, limiting thoj. power of the militnry, were nished:; > through tho Reichstag owing to the-j 1 urgent danger of a coup d'etat, not, ns concessions to President Wilson. The "Tageblatt" states that the prekPiit internal struggle is as much be-1 Iween tho military and civil authorities • as a discussion of peace. Discussing; Hindenburg and Ludendorff's see-saw' tactics, the paper adds: "The German j people decline to change their policy ; , according to the temporary humours of! 1 the High Command. We have had; enough of the 'suddenness' of .the' Kaiser's rdgime." FIGHTING IN~BUDAPEST. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received October 31st, 1.10 a.m.) 1 LONDON, October 30. Heavy fighting is going on in Buda* • pest between followers of Count Karolyi * and tho military. Tho soldiers are using j machine-guns and bayonets. Many per- ; sons have been killed.'