BUDA PESTH IN THROES OF A GENERAL STRIKE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16760, 29 January 1918, Page 5

BUDA PESTH IN THROES OF A GENERAL STRIKE.

NEW HUNGARIAN CABINET CONSTITUTED. PROGRAMME INCLUDES FORMING NATIONAL ARMY. Reutei. (Received 8.35 p.m.) BERNE, Jan. 27. A new Hungarian Cabinet has been formed, Count von Wekerle remaining Premier. A Buda Pesth telegram states that the King has sanctioned the new Government's programme, comprising the formation of a national Hungarian army, and the drawing up of a new Ausitro-Hungarian commercial treaty. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 27, The Berlin Tageblatt states that a general strike at Buda Pesth commenced on the morning of January 18. Bosnian soldiers with machine-guns surrounded the inner city, and strongly occupied all the bridges. The strikers massed in the outer portions of the capital were not allowed to enter the inner city. Street traffic was suspended, and the shops closed. Thirty members of the Labourers, Soldiers, and Students' Union were arrested before the strike. PETROGRAD, Jan. 27. The Bolshevik papers state that great demonstrations are taking place over the whole of Austria and Hungary, and that Soviet organisations have been formed in Vienna and Buda Pesth. An extensive strike has begun in Warsaw. Australian and N.Z. (Received 11.45 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. The State Department has been advised of increased restiveness among the Slav population in Austria, particularly among the Czechs. The Austrian upheavals are assuming serious proportions.