HUNGARY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16607, 3 December 1919, Page 3

HUNGARY.

bolshevik murderers. PLACED ON TRIAL. By Telegrapn—Press Assn.— Copyright. (Receiver* Dec. 2, 9.20 a.rn.) LONDON, Nov. 28. The Budapest correspondent of the Daily Express states that the trial of Bela Kun’s terrorists has commenced. It will last several weeks, as (June are so many charges ot murder and torture. Two of the terrorists turned King’s evidence and detailed how three comrades, Eserny, Schon and Groo, were sent on special missions of killing and torture. One witness gave evidence that ho dug his own grave and was shot by Eserny’s orders, but the firing party did not trouble to throw in the earth. Later he recovered consciousness and crawled away. Bela Kun once ordered Esorny to kill Pogany, a commissary of war. Eserny refused and asked the reason. Bela Kun replied airily: “Oh, he is not Radical enough.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.