HUNGARY'S FUTURE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17242, 19 August 1919, Page 7

HUNGARY'S FUTURE.

PRESIDENT OR KING. ARCHDUKE NON-COMMITTAL. A. and N.Z. CHICAGO, Aug. 17. The Buda Pesth correspondent of the Chicago Tribune states that the Archduke Joseph, in the course of an interview, denied that his assumption of the Governorship of Hungary was part of a Royalist plot. He said that officers had represented to him that it was his duty to save the country, therefore he assumed the dictatorship, but would resign as soon as the new Cabinet is firmly established. He merely asked to make his home in Hungary. In answer to a question whether he would accept the crown if the National Assembly requested him to do so, he said that it was a difficult question to answer at this time. He could not make a reply until such a request was made. ANOTHER CABINET CHANGE. OFFER TO SOCIALISTS. Renter. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 16It is officially reported from Buda Pesth that the Hungarian Cabinet has been re-formed, with Herr Friedrich still Premier, Herr Lovaczy Minister for Foreign Affairs, and General Schnitzler Minister for War. All the Bourgeois, I Radical, and other parties are repre- ! sented, including small farmers, clericals, anti-Semites, and the old official class. Several portfolios were offered to Social Democrats, who hesitate to accept owing to fears of the Conservative and Bourgeois parties. It is intended to abolish Count Karolyi's scheme for proportional representation. Several British monitors and patrol boats are assisting to watch the Danube shipping. « MASSACRE FORESTALLED. PLANS OF BOLSHEVIKS. A. and N.Z. BUDA PESTH. Aug. 17. The Bolshevik leaders confess that they planned a kind of St. Bartholomew's massacre for August 7, when the police and other officials suspected of favouring the counterrevolution would be murdered, and next night tfjere would have been a wholesale slaughter of the whole •bourgeoisie of Buda Pesth. According to messages from Milan, the Archduke Joseph states that during Bolshevik rule he was obliged to keep hidden, moving from village to village, while his two sons and daughters earned their living cutting timber and ploughing.