THE ENEMY AT THE GATES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 138, 8 December 1914, Page 7

THE ENEMY AT THE GATES

HUNGARY'S PLEA TO THE ANGRY KAISER " WE ARE AT HIS MERCY " (By Telegraph.-— Press Association. — Copyright.) (Received December 8, 10 a.m. LONDON, 7th December. The Morning Post's correspondent's despatch from Italy deals with th« recent visit of Count Tisza, Prime Minister of Hungary, to Germany for the purpose of informing the Kaiser that he could not guarantee the goodwill and loyalty of Hungary unless more attention was paid to Hungarian interests. The Kaiser became furious, and remarked : " Open enemies are not always the more dangerous. The egotism of your people is likely to upset the whole plan of the campaign." < Count Tisza stuck to the point that three army corps should be cent to defend the Hungarian Plains and throw back the Russians across the Carpathians, otherwise the Cabinet would resign. In an editorial article a leading Opposition paper says: "All we can see is that the Premier had a big audience with the German Emperor. We are at his mercy, even the safety of our "country The Germans have taken over even the constitutional rights of the Monarchy, as if wb were without an Emperor and had not raised an army of four millions for the German General Staff to dispose of."