ARMS FOR HUNGARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18026, 1 March 1933, Page 5

ARMS FOR HUNGARY

CHARGE AGAINST ITALY

VIENNA, dan. 9.

A Socialist newspaper to-day carried, a report that 40 freight cars loaded with rifles and machine guns had arrived at the Hirtenberg arms and munitions factory from. Italy and had been shipped to Hungary. An official communique said the weapons were old Austrian war material which had been repaired, and that the Government had consented in order to provide work for Austrian labor. The statement dill not dear up the origin of the weapons. The Arbcitcr Zeitung attacked the Government; calling the communique untrue and denying that the arms were being- repaired. The newspaper assorted that the arms which reached Hirtenberg were merely loaded on trucks for shipment to Hungary. It accused the Government of having knowledge of these transactions.

The newspaper estimated that 40,000 to 50',000 rifles and 200 machine guns, enough to arm a whole- army' corps, had - arrived and that the greater part already had been transported across the Hungarian' border.

and Opotiki this morning, but overcast and unsettled conditions prevailed elsewhere in the North Island, with rain fairly general. Moderate- to strong easterly winds were general. The barometer had commenced a falling move incut. Temperatures at 9 o’clock were : Auckland 67 degrees, Taurauga and East Capo 63, Opotiki 69, Gisborne 66, Napier 68, and Wellington 62. Rough seas were reported at Napier and in' the Bay of Plenty : elsewhere moderate or smooth. (Last Night’s Forecast). A rather shallow cyclone is centred near Cape,Marin Van Diemen. Pressure is rather high to the east of the South Island. Winds: Northorlies prevailing south of Greym'outh and Akaroa, but elsewhere south to east., moderate to strong in force. Seas: Rather rough to rough north of Farewell Spit and Kaikoura, smooth to moderate seas in the southward. Eastern Tasman Sea : Moderate to strong southerly winds and rather rough seas in the northern portion, light to moderate northerlies and smooth to moderate sOas in the southern portion.’ Weather: Rain in the northern and north-eastern districts, and at scattered places elsewhere in the North Island, with soiim heavy falls beweon the Ray of Plenty and Hawke’s Bay; mainly fine in the South Island, hut some light showers on the coast north of Banks Peninsula. Temperatures cool. (Midday Porecast) The indications are for south-easterly winds, moderate to strong. The weather appears likely to be cloudy and-unsettled, with rain probable; heavy in places. Expect cool temperatures. Seas rough; tides good. (District Porecast) General inference. —The northern cyclone is now centred east of Auckland, and is shallower. Pressure is still rather high east of the South Island. Forecast.—-Moderate to fresh southeasterly winds. Weather still unsettled, with further rain and some heavy falls likely, especially in the north-east. Seas mainly moderate., but a. considerable southerly swell.