MACE WITH AUSTRIA

Evening Star, Issue 17154, 22 September 1919, Page 4

MACE WITH AUSTRIA

Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

PARIS, September 20. | A Rumanian Government memorandum I sent to M. Ciemenceau explains that tho 1 Rumanians’ refusal to sign tho Austrian \ Peace Treaty was duo to the indifference ; displayed regarding Rumania’s sacrifices 1 and aspirations. She expected the Allies j to guarantee her rights over, the wholsy'of .the Baliat, and also over part of Bukovina 1 ami the Hungarian .regions l inhabited by , Rumanians. ! GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. I PARIS, September 20. j The German Note to tho Peace ConferS cnee agreeing to the annulment of the article in the Gorman Constitution providing for the union of Austria and Germany protests against the ironical tone of tho i allied Note dealing with the German Government's explanations, and says that the Allies are not entitled to wound" Germany's feelings. t ■ " EXECUTIONERS BUSY. MUNICH. September 18. Six Communists have been bkecuted for the murder of hostages during the Bolshevik regime. COPENHAGEN, September 19. The trial of tho Communists has begun at Budapest. The accused include 35 commissaries, 37 journalists, and all the revolutionary judges and jurymen. RUMANIA AND HUNGARY. LONDON. September 19. The ‘ Daily Express’s ’ Budapest correspondent states that the Rumanians will evacuate Budapest in the nest few days, j They are pursuing a deliberate policy of i leaving fhe country in a chaotic condition in order to provide an excuse for their return. The prospect of a renewal of the reign of Bolshevism is causing anxiety. The Communists have accumulated secret stores of arms and ammunition, and are only awaiting a signal for a rising. It is impossible for the Hungarians to maintain order after the evacuation by ’ the Rumanians except in tho TransDanube districts. i The Rumanians’ latest act is the destruction of the War Ministry telephones. They endeavored to arrest M. Friedrich in order to form a new Government, but if. Friedrich successfully appealed for . British intervention.