CZECHO-SLOVAK REVOLT.
RISING IN NEW STATE. BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA. DICTATORSHIP DECLARED. By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. (Received 10.30 p.m.) A. and N.Z. BERLIN. Oct. 15. The Czecho-Slovak Government at Prague has proclaimed a military dictatorship owing to widespread revolutionary ferment in Slovakia and Upper Hungary. The movement has also spread to the Ruthenians, in the Carpathians, where it has assumed a Bolshevik character. The leaders of the revolt demand complete separation from Prague. Prague is the capital of the new State which has been formed out of Bohemia and other former Austrian ana Hungarian territories inhabited by the Czechs and Slovaks. The Ruthenians, the name applied to the- Little Russians, are a majority of the population in the greater part of Galicia. They are also numerous in the Carpathians and the outskirts of the former Hungarian territory. The greater part of Galicia is now controlled by Poland, but a portion of the southern fringe has been allotted to Czechoslovakia,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17293, 17 October 1919, Page 7
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