HUNGARIAN COUNT

Grey River Argus, 23 April 1929, Page 7

HUNGARIAN COUNT

ON WORLD TOUR AT 79. COMING TO NEW ZEALAND. Among the passengers who arrived at Sydney by the R.M.S. Moldavia recently was Count Robert Zelenski a Hungarian nobleman, who is on hi c way t 0 New Zealand- • The count., who is 79 years of ago has spent most of his time since the war ia travelling, and is now on a world tour. “I have now visited every country in the world,” he said “except China and Japan. It is possible that I will visit them next year. ’ ’ Count Zelenski gave a vivid description of post-war Hungary, to-day only a remnant ,of a thousand-year-old kingdom. It was one of the ironies of the Great War, he said, that his country, which had not wanted war, should I have lost mor e by it than any other i nation. Before the war Hungary had

been one of the greatest kingdoms in the world, with a population of 20.000,000 people and an area of 10,000 square miles. To-day it was a moo archy without a king, with its ter ritory and population reduced by twothirds. By th c Treaty of Versailles the mineral wealth of the country had been given to Bohemia and Austria Great tracts of land had gone to Czecho-Slovakia, Rumania and YUgo slavia, and four million Hungarians row found themselves in the boundaries of foreign countries.