AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3523, 20 September 1921, Page 18

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

PUNITIVE MEASURES THREATENED PARIS, September 11. The Ambassadors’ Conference sent the Hungarian Ambassador a Note stating that the acts of insolence which are being committed by Hungarians in West Hungary directly involves the responsibility of the Hungarian Government, which is invited to evacuate Burgenland. The Note declares that punitive measures will be taken to ensure the execution of the treaty engagements if Hungary persists in i her present attitude. September 12. The Council of Allied Ambassadors sent i to the Hungarian Minister at Paris a Note demanding the withdrawal of the Hun- ! garian regular and irregular troops from ; the western zone, which was allotted to Austria-; otherwise the penalties provided in the Peace Treaty will be applied. AUSTRIAN TROOPS ADVANCING. VIENNA, September 11. The Government is despatching all the available troops to protect the frontier against the Hungarian insurgents, who are now looting in Austrian territory. The first Austrian brigade marched through Vienna on Sunday. The advance body crossed the Leitha River at Bruck and entered Hungarian territory with the. full sanction of the Inter-allied Commission. AUSTRIAN BATTALION MUTINIES. VIENNA, September 14. The Austrian battalion at Bruck, which was ordered lo cross the Hungarian frontier, refused. The commandant called a conference of his officers and men, In the course of a heated discussion a soldier knocked down a company 3 commander. The battalion disbanded after the commandant had resigned. EUROPE'S PEACE THREATENED. PRAGUE, September 14. Czecho-Slovakia has despatched a Note to the Ambassadors’ Council drawing attention to the reign of terror in Burgenland. which is endangering the peace of Europe. The Note asks that measures bo taken definitely to end the anarchic situation. AMERICANS’ SHREWD MOVE. LONDON, September 12. Negotiations have concluded bv which a powerful American syndicate will champion the claims of the Austrian Archduke Frederick against the various Central European Governments which have sequestrated and confiscated properties estimated to be worth £40,000,000, consisting of land and industrial holdings, including steel works and mines at Teschen, the return of which the syndicate is anxious to secure with a view to the resumption of operations on American lines.