KARL'S CLAIM TO THRONE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14985, 12 August 1919, Page 5

KARL'S CLAIM TO THRONE.

LD3S INVENTED ABOUT : THE RUIVLA.NIANS. (Eiec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.i ' (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Reuters Tel6srram.) BUDAPEST,, August 9. In the course of ian> interview, the i Archduke JosepJl declared it was/ impos- ■' sible to say.whether th'e- future Govern- ' ment would be moriarcliial or republican. That would be decided by- the National Assembly, which would be elected immediately the Rumanians leave the country. The new ministry at its first meeting resolved to recognise the Archduke Joseph as Regent until tho National Assembly was elected. (Australian and'NiZ. Cable Asspciittion}. BERLIN, August 10. Owing to events m Hungary the exEmperor Karl is sending an emissary to Vienna to negotiate for the restoration of the monarchy! German arid Austrian aeroplanes dropped leaflets iris Budapest, asserting Karl's claims to the. Hungarian 'throne arid disparaging the Archduke Joseph. (JKen'fti s Tt'lcßraiu.) BUDAPEST, August 9. The Premier, Hefr. Froderick,^ m ■an interview, said that the removal of the Beidl Cabinet was essential^ because it was a Bolshevist body. The/Archduke's movement originated -iii aristocratio official circles. It' is strongly "royalist m character. The Archduke i signed the proclamation as Archduke'; Joseph; FieldMarshal, a fact much J cbmmente j d on,', as hitherto he haH desfcrife'ed himself as Joseph Hapsbufg. . ' ■'"■;.. ; BERNE, August 10., Advices from Bucharest say that semi-official reports of" the excesses ol the Rumanian troops were invented by the German press and, Bolshevists.