BURGENLAND DISPUTE

Otago Witness, Issue 3526, 11 October 1921, Page 15

BURGENLAND DISPUTE

PARIS, October 2. j The Conference of Ambassadors adopted j the Italian Government’s proposal to inj vite the Governments of Vienna and j Budapest to send plenipotentiaries to | Rome, with a view to concluding agreeI ment regarding Burgenlnnd. LONDON, October 3. A lending American financier, who re- ! turned to Paris after a four months’ journey in the of Eastern Europe, says that everywhere he found signs of feverish arming, thus hampering the attempts at reconstruction. Money was being squandered on war policies instead of on economic policy, the chief disturbing element being Hungary. He declared that so long as this situation continues America will decline to extend the sorely-needed long-term credits. BUDAPEST, October 5. IT ungary has signed a protocol agreeing to transfer Burgenland to Austria. Thus the way is cleared for an Austro-Hun-garian agreement in conformity with the decision of the Ambassadors’ Conference. A GROWING MEN \CE. LONDON, October 6. The Daily Chronicle's special eorrespond- | ent at Odenburg states that 1200 members of the Hungarian gendarmerie, under Lieutenant Oszenliurg, who is known to be a Karlist, are now responsible for the maintenance of order in Odenburg, with I its 40,000 inhabitants. Odenburg may at I any moment go over to the irregulars, I with whom he i-s in touch, 'idle irregular | bands now number 3000, but they can be i expanded to 30,000 under Colonel Pronay, who is a ruthless terrorist, and is determined to withhold Burgenland from Austria. All the irregulars, however, do lot favour the recall of Karl, and his return would probably result in civil war. There was a time when a battalion of the Allied | troops could have cleared the country, but now a division would be required, and soon three divisions will be the least that could cope with the task.