HUNGARY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16799, 1 April 1919, Page 7

HUNGARY.

PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM

UNDER SOVIET RULE.

Australian and N.£. Ca'ale Assn. BTJDA PEST March 30.

j The revolution is accomplishing sweeping changes 'in economical life. Lawyers, engineers, physicians, and I other educated men are forming trade. j unions. The new Soviet Lousing councils are seizing the apartments of ' the wealthy in order to house the poor. 'All objects of" art. in private possession are declared public property. Religious tuition is forbidden in schools. Herr Belakun declared that terrorism will only prevail if necessary. The British gunboats left Buda Pesb but the Food Delegates are remaining. GERMAN-AUSTRIA HOLDS OFF. BERLIN, March 24. The Plenary Committee of Workers' Councils in German-Austria resolved as Germo-Austrians completely on the Entente for food, not to accede at present to their Hungarian comrades' appeal to enter into a contract with the Russian Soviets Government, , but to hold themselves in readiness for eventualities and continue to rapidlyI develop the Soviet organisation. FRENCH TROOPS IN ACTION. Received 1.35 a.m., April Ist. PARIS, March 30. An outpost conflict is reported between French and Hungarians near Szegedin, with some casualties on both .sides. The French retired to Szegedin, j