CAUSING GRAVE APPREHENSION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14984, 11 August 1919, Page 3

CAUSING GRAVE APPREHENSION.

REFUSED TO RECEIVE ALLIED i MISSION. SHARP NOT® FROM SUPREME COUNCIL. (Elf-t. .I'd. Copyright — United Press A>sn.) lAii«w-alia» ami x.Z. Cable Associating. LONDON, August 6. Tlie Australian Press Association Ituu-ns that the situation- m Middle Europe As likeiy to clear up following the Rumanian occupation at Budapest.! where Rumanian soldiers without arms iire patrolling Uw streets. There arc no disturbances.

Mr. Bonair Law said that the Government had decided to raise the blockade on Hungary. The Daily Telegraph's Paris correspondent states that there is the gravest -apprehension m Peace- Conference circles as to the Rumanian situation. The Ango-American delegates particular; y realise that the Allied cause is likely i<> suffer if Rumania- continues to act m defiance of the Peace Conference conditions. It is unlikely that Czecho-Sb-yakia, .Serbia, and Italy will acquiesce m" Rumania's demands. Rumanian defiance us 4iaving far-reaching effects abroad, aud has revived the hopes of, Turkish insurgents m the Committee <ji Union and Progress. It has similarly strengthened the resistance of Von der Goltz, who flatly declines to obey the Allied plans and evacuate the Baltic provinces by August 20.

PARIS, August 8. The Supreme Council has addressed .1 sharp Note to Rumania, owing to her refusal to receive the Allied military mission at Budapest. 'lho Supreme Council has disavowed the Rumanian ultimatum to Hungary, and requests Misu, the Romanian dele gate, to inform the Government that the Council expressly refuses to recognise any armistice terms outside thus.; already settled m Paris, LONDON, August 8. There is an unconfirmed report from Vienna tliat America threatens to stop the export of food to Rumania unless the severity of the terms of the armistice with Hungary are modified. (Reuter's Telegram.) PARIS, August 8. Mr. Hoover,, urho is directing relief work m Hungary, ordered the suspension of all consignments of food to Budapest, on the ground that the Rumanians are seizing food. 'Hie Rumanian troops have crossed ' the Danube and occupied the \rhoLe of j Budapest. 'Owing to the expiry of the period I axed ior the acceptance of the arm-«-tice. the Supreme^ Council not only refused to recognise th© Rumanians' 'right to impose fresh terms, but held that (lie exaction of reparations and indemnities was vested m. all the Allies. It is learned that the Rumanian generals refused to obey the Allied Com- 1 mission s request to stay, their hand and permitted pillaging. They established j a blockade which is reducing Budapest to starvation. They destroyed railways between Budapest and Vienna., and committed other violations of the rights ci [the Allies, even of humanity. The Council's telegram to Rumania requests the Government immediately to demonstrate by their acts thai the inference of the Council that Rumania is resolved to disregard its authority and separate herself from the Allies is. mistaken

BERLIN. August 8. ihe lageblattls Budapest cprrespondent states that the American 'Government requested the Rumanian command to withdraw the armistice condi't ons imposed on Hungary, threatening' tne stoppage of suppbes to Rumania. VIENNA, August B. Ihe newspaper Die Zeit state* that the Hungarian Ambassador fled t<> Vienna after burning secret documents. II ■! igarian journalists and officers »übmmi lently went to the Kinbassy aivl tlu'.-ished and ejected the staff. Enormous and enthusiastic crowds demon* strated all night long before the hotel m Budapest, where the new Ministers are staying. The city remains orderly. German correspondents at Budapest state that the Hungarian peasants ;uv wreaking vengeance on the Bolshevists, whose leaders m many communities woi publicly beaten to death.