HUNGARIAN COUNT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20219, 2 April 1929, Page 10

HUNGARIAN COUNT.

ON WORLD TOUR AT 79. COMING TO NEW ZEALAND. Among tlio passengers who arrived at Sydney by tlio 11.M.5. Moldavia recently was Count Robert Zelonski, a Hungarian nobleman, who is on his way to New Zealand. The count, who is 79 years of age, has spent most of his time sincQ the war in travelling, and is now on a world tour. "I have now visited every country in the world," he said, "except China and japan. It is possiblo that I will visit them next year." Count Zelenski gavo a vivid description of post-war Hungary, to-day only a remnant of a thousand-year-old kingdom. It was one of the ironies of the Great War, lie said, that his country, which had not wanted war. should have lost more by it than any other nation. Before the war Hungary had been one of the greatest, kingdoms in the world, with a population of 20,000,000 people and an area of 100,000 square miles. To-day it was a monarchy without a king, with its territory and population reduced by two-thirds. By the Treaty of Versailles the mineral wealth of the country had been given to Bohemia and Austria. Great tracts of land had gone to Czecho-Slovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia, arid four million Hungarians now found themselves within tlio boundaries of foreign countries.