HUNGARY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 9 April 1919, Page 5

HUNGARY

EVERYTHING SOCIALISED

CLOSELY ALLIED WITH RUSSIA

GENERAL SMUTS' PROPOSALS

l j BY CABLE—PEBSS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, Mar. 27. United Press messages from Budapest state that the Hungarian Soviet coup occurred without disorder or bloodshed. Amicable relations with Alli«d officials continue. The Allied troops have full liberty. Everything is Socialised, from the army to the baths. , Conscrption has been abolished. Tribunals supplant courts. Industries have been ordered to continue work. ' Titles have been abolished, and the stock exchange closed. : The United Press Agency at Berne learns that Bolshevist uprisings in Austria and Czechoslovakia are iniminent. Any move in these countries against the Hungarian Soviet Government is expected to precipitate a class warfare. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. j PARIS, Mar. 27. ! Reports from Hungary show that the revolution was not so bloodless as made out. There were serious fusillades in th« streets of Budapest. Many were killed and wounded. There was much pillaging, and the Czecho-Slovak legation was occupied by the red army. The whereabouts of the legation is unknown. Red guards raided the Ukrainian legation and arrested the personnel, while a Russian officer distributed two million crowns found in the building. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, Mar. 28. ! The Chronicle's Berlin correspondent states that the German-Austrian Cabinet has recognised the Hungarian Soviet Government. Herr Polgar, ambassador at Vienna, describes the rapid Socialisation of factories, workshops, and houses in Hungary. The theatres have been ordered to give several free performances for workers weekly. The revolution is primarily aimed at freeing the proletariat and landless peasants. He added: "If the 'bourgeoisie are with us it is because they have no alternative. We are closely allied militarily and politically to the Russian Government. That alliance is a defensive one." Foreign missions and troops are leaving Budapest. There are no signs of reprisals by the Entente, and it is doubtful if the latter will seriously attempt to embark on an adventure against, such a world-wide government as Bolshevism. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BUDAPEST, April 7. General Smuts' proposals to Hungary include the creation of a neutral zone between Hungary and Roumania, to be occupied by the Allies, and a proposal to raise the blockade immediately to allow of the importation of food. General Smuts also proposes that the Allies •shall receive a representative in Paris to hear the Hungarian case. General Smuts held a conference with Bohemians, Hungarians, Roumanians, Jugo-Slavs. and German-Austrians, with the , object of reaching an agreement on territorial limitations. The Hungarian Government agreed to the conference, but demurred at the boundaries. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. General Smuts denies that the Allies are planning to send an army into Hungary.—Reuter. * '