ABOUT THE ENEMY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16358, 1 November 1918, Page 8

ABOUT THE ENEMY.

j FIGHTING IN BUDAPEST. | THE RISING IX CROATIA. (Br Ca'jla.—l J i<s3 Association.— Copyright. a::a C»ot<r Associ:u*..on.i LONDON. October 30. The Zuri"h correspondent of the "Datlv News" states: —The ferment at Budapest contiuuoi. Great demonstrations arc organised liouriy, and violent combat.-; occur between Uie population. tne aoidiers, and rival bctiies or students. The* Emperor Jicirl J}**® hurriedly loft for Vienna. Tne climax of the drama may be expected on \> educsdav. AGISTER DAM. October 30. The "Vossiche Zciiung's" Budapest correspondent says the Magyar National Council decided to send a deputation to Of en Castlo to ask the Archduke Joseph to secure Count Ivarolyi for the Premiership. A great crowd followed the deputation and attempted to break through the military guard. Heavy fighting commenced, the soldiers using* machino-guns and bayonets. Great numbers of people were killed. The fighting wn« sfill raging at nino o'clock on Monci.iy evening. A general "labour revolt is expected at any moment. . . ' The rising in Croatia, continues to increase, and much lighting is taking place bet-ween the Croats and the HunThe Croats occupy all the railway stations. BORDERING ON REVOLUTION. (Australian and N. 2. Cable Asaociat.oia.) BERNE. Octobc-r 30. The Emperor Karl and the Granu Dukes are desperately resisting the formation of a coalition Ministry including ibe leaders of the Magyar National Council. Meanwhile there are conflicts in tbe_ streets _ o. Budapest Tho situation is bordering on revolution. Machine-guns are freely used, and a dictatorship is openly, advocator!. Extremists and Socialists aro coining much support, though Count K;! ro'yi is making a great effort to the national movement with tho Radicals. REPUBLIC DECLARED AT PRAGUE. (United Serviced LONDON. October 30. Tho Czecho-Slovaks effected a bloodless coup d'etat at Prague. They declared a republic, seized all authority, and destroyed the Imperial symbols. Tlia con.manders and staffs of the garrisons joined the new Government. STATE OF SIEGE IN BUDAPEST. (Renter's Telegrams.) (Received October 31st, 7.45 p.m.) BERNE, October 30. A state of siege has been proclaimed in Budapest. German troops are arrh'ing from Austria to maintain order. Demonstrators arc parading the streets and hurrahing for a republic. GERMANO-AUSTRIAN NATIONAL GUARD. ("The Tim-*.") /Received October 31st, 7.45 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, October 30. The Germano-Austrians are raising a National Guard throughout- Germany and Austria. A BAVARIAN MOVEMENT. THE HAGUE, October 30. The Bavarian movement for shifting the centre of the Empire to Munich is taking definite sliape. The Social Democrats couple therewith fiery demands for the punishment of the Kaiser and Ludendorff. There is a notable movement in Bavarian universities for the abdication of the Kaiser pud the Crown Prince, and the reduction of Prussia's influence in tho Federal Council. POSSIBLE DISUNION OF GERMAN EMPIRE. ("Tho Times.") ('Received October 31st, 7.40 p.m.) LONDON, October 30. Great internal commotion has been caused in Germany by tho Bavarian Premier von Dandl's speech, in which he suggested that there were possibilities of the Empire's disunion after tho war. The Press, in appealing for unity, admit that tho future of tho Germanic Union largely depends on President Wilson's peaco conditions, but greatly fear the British and French will to destroy Germany. The "Naehrichten" states: '"The foundations of tho Empire are beginning to totter, and housands of Gormana already alienated from tho grandson of the first Kaiser are now shaken to the depths by the Bavarian development." The "Frankfurter Zeitung" says:— "While the world is rocking in its deepest foundations, Austria-Hungary breaking up, and the German Fatherland fighting on the last ramparts, we must not let our enemies profit by internal intrigues for the break-up of the Empire. Our only remedy against disaster is a firm will to remain one people." THE BUNDESRAT'S POWER. (Router's Telegrams.) (Received October 31st, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, October 30. In the House of Commons, in reply to a question, Lord Robert Cecil, Under-Secretary for the Foreign Office, stated that there was no evidence that the power of the German Bundesrat had in any way been modified. The Secretaries of State were appointed by the Kaiser, and they were presumably liablo to dismissal by the Emperor. Therefore, presumably, the so-called German War Cabinet did not correspond constitutionally to the Allied War Cabinets. CENSORSHIP OF NEWSPAPERS IN j AUSTRIA. (Reuters Telegrams.) (Received Octobcr 31st, 7.45 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, October 30. The censorship of newspapers in Austria has been abolished. ANOTHER SUCCESSOR TO LUDENDORFF MENTIONED. (Renter's Telegrams.) (Received October 31st. 10 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, October 30. succeeds Ludendorff. A picturesque feature in a recent American Rod Cross drive was tho journey or a dog team from the fat north to New York city. The driver was a fur trader, who one day during the winter, on his silver fox farm, read in a newspaper of roads in Europe, impassable to horses and motors, on which dogs were used to haul provisions aal, munitions. He had a dog team—Great! Danes —which he had trained with the ! < help of a dog, half timber wolf. This 1 one he drove as leader. He volunteered 1 his services, and those of the dogs and * hi& journey for th e Red Cross was the ! first stage of his advance into France.