Only Slight Resistance Offered in Hungary

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 67, 23 March 1944, Page 5

Only Slight Resistance Offered in Hungary

LONDON, March 21. More than 6000 German soldiers are controlling Budapest and have already arrested about 6000 prominent Hungarians, says the. British United Press’s correspondent on the German frontier. Kali ay’s whereabouts is not knowii. Some reports state that he has gone south to organise armed resistance, The German advance from Vienna is stated to have encountered only slight resistance, but armed clashes are reported from the frontier of Rumania and Hungary. Hungarian troops and home guards at one place openly opposed German contingents attempting to penetrate Hungary from the south. Other Hungarians are reported to have flown to Yugoslavia hoping to join the partisans. Von Neich, who is the German commander in the Balkans, is believed to have arrived in Budapest. Swedish businessmen who were in Budapest when the Germans occupied Hungary, state that the first warning the people received was the dropping of paratroops on Hungarian airfields on Sunday morning, says the Associated Press’s Stockholm correspondent. One traveller arriving at Malmoe said clashes occurred on some of the fields but there was no organised resistance. A second traveller said when he left the hotel on Sunday morning' he found German soldiers guarding the street with machine guns. Next day Budapest was full of German infantry with S.S. men and Hungarian Nazis searching everyone at the railway station, “probably looking for Jews.’*