HUNGARIAN CRISIS

Gisborne Times, Volume L, Issue 5136, 31 March 1919, Page 5

HUNGARIAN CRISIS

ALLIED EFFORTS ENDANGERED THREE STATES AIENACED BY BOLSHEVIK ARMIES. ENEAIY BLAAIE ENTENTE OF FORCING REVOLUTION. PROPOSED BIG LINKING-UP OF FRIENDLY FORCES. .Eeuter’s Telegrams. PARIS, March 24. Hungary’s adoption of Bolshevism is regarded as most serious, chiefly endangering the Entente’s efforts to build up the Roumanian, Polish and Czecho-Slovak States as a bulwark against Germany dominating Centra* Europe. All three States are menaced by the advancing Bolshevik armies. The neutral zone decided upon by the Peace Conference was intended to make the Hungarians desist from attacking the Roumanians and communicating with the Russians while it closed a gap between Poland and Roumania. According to a Vienna despatch the Entente Note which precipitated the crisis, defined the zone as a belt 14.0 miles long by 40 wide, virtually shutting Hungary behind the rivers Theiss, Szammos and Maros. The Note required the withdrawal of the Hungarian troops behind the western boundary of the belt within *ten days and authorised the Roumanian advance on the eastern boundary, the civil government within the zone to he exercised under Allied control.

Statements issued at Budapest accuse the Entente of forcing the revolution, but the revolt is more probably due to the occupation of parts of Hungary by the Czecho-Slo-vaks and Roumanians, wliil signs fire not wanting of German collusion with the Bolsheviks.

Australian and N.Z. Cabl“_ Association (Received Alarch 29, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS,, Alarch 28.

General Haller, in command of the Polish division in France, complains of the indecision of the conference in regard to the return of his divisions to°Poland. What had happened in Hungary and elsewhere, he said, would have been impossible but for the passive policy of the Allies. He does not consider the upheaval in Hungary serious but only symptomatic. It would not be difficult to link up the anti-Bolshevik forces from Serbia to the Black Sea with the help of the Poles and Roumanians and thus create a harrier which ■ the Bolsheviks could never p<fts. The latest reports states that Budapest is quieter. Four food trains are held up between _ Trieste and Budapest owing to a strike. From a French source it is learned that the National Guard in Austria is displaying Bolshevist tendencies.

Eeuter’s Telegrams* (Received March 25, 5.5 p.m.) BERNE, Alarch 24

The Bavarian Foreign Minister has informed the German Government that Bavaria is disarming and will not henceforth furnish soldiers for the Empire.

Australian and N Z. Cable Association (Received Alarch 28, 2.40 p.m.) LONDON, Alarch "26. The Foreign Alinisters have decided to remove the blockade from German Austria as soon as “leaks” into Germany are precluded.

SCENE IN FRENCH CHAMBER.

SOCIALISTS ACCUSED OF SUPPORTING BOLSHEVIKS.

A HEATED PROTEST.

M. PICHON URGES ALLIED FORCES REA!AIN IN RUSSIA.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Alarch 29, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, Alarch 28. - Th'e French apprehensions regarding Bolshevism were reflected in a heated debate in the Chamber of Deputies during the last few days on the situation in Russia. M. Pichon declared that Bolshevism was not only a plague of Russia but of humanity. The French Government had been accused x>f playing into the hands of Russian reactionaries, which meant that all who were not partisans of Lenin and . Trotsky were to be regarded as Tsarists. He regretted that the Socialist Minority had united to support Bolshevists against liis Government. .What the latter desired was a Russian federal republic. He did not despise the Bolshevist army, which wa s staffed by German officers. The Socialists' hotly protested against being stigmatised as Bolshevists because they resisted, the idea of military intervention in Russia. AI. Pichon rejoined, “You are not Socialists.” . , Uproar drowned M. Pichon s turther remarks.

AI. Pichon maintained that it was necessary to retain thej Allied forces in Russia. He stated that therewere 13,000 British, 5000 American, 2349 French, 2500 Italians and Serbians and 12,000 Russians in the Archangel region.

FIRM STAND BY ENTENTE

REPORT FROM GERMANY

HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT’S RESIGNATION DEMANDED.

Australian and N.Z. Gable Association. (Received March 30,- 12.10 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, March 29 Advices from Berlin state that the Entente Powers have demanded the Hungarian Government’s resignation and the election of a National Assembly under the Entente’s supervision..

A SIGNIFICANT REPORT

ALLIES TO ASSIST IN MIDEUROPE.

Australian and N.Z CaW* Association. meceived March dlj I P-«w (lt NEW YORK. March 29. The New York Hearld states that ASed°mmS"y direction with complete Allied aid to check the Bolshevik penetration.