HUNGARY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16448, 29 May 1919, Page 3

HUNGARY.

REPORTS OF GREAT ANARCHY.

ANTI-BOLSHEVIK GOVERNMENT,

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —-Copyright. LONDON, May 16. A counter-Government has been formed at Arad, in Hungary. The Premier is Julius Karolyi, cousin _ of Count Karolyi. The Government, in a manifesto, declares it is transitional. Its task ivill bo to repair the Bolshevik ravages and restore law and order.— Times Service.

LONDON, May 23

Vienna messages show that Hungarian anarchy is increasing. Fighting in the provinces and massacres of peasants are reported because they refused to sell food to the Bolshevists’ towns.

A party of Red Guards raided a village. Peasants took refuge in the local castle. The Bolsheviks brought up artillery ,_ whereupon the besieged surrendered. 1 Their leaders were murdered and crucified on the church doors.

A queue of women in Budapest, after vainly waiting at a butcher’s shop, tore three Red Guards to pieces and murdered the hostages, including three ex-Ministers and two ex-State Secre-taries.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.