EARLY MESSAGES

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16801, 3 April 1919, Page 9

EARLY MESSAGES

' Bolshevism. HUNGAMAN VARIETY. AMTMOIALLY OREATEJD. Australian and N.Z. Ca'ole Assn. • PARIS, Agfil 1. .'Reports from Hungary indicate thai . Bolshevism,, there has been artifically "created 'for the purpose of securing easier terms from the Allies. : ; Gorman influence is suspected. FOUR TAKE"CbIINSEL. The Big Four, in conjunction with five Foreign Ministers, discussed the Hungarian situation. ENTENTE INTERVENTION. v GENEVA, April 1. It is reported that several officers and men of the three British monitors at Budapest were killed by Hungarian gunfire. ' BUCHAREST, April 1. It is reported that the Entente's forces -have landed'' at Oronstadt, en route toVHungary. REACTION IN BERLIN. LONDON, March 26. Mr Charles Tower writes that the alleged Hungarian alliance with the ,Bolsheviks resulted in an' immediate reactionary agitation in Berlin. 'There were . numerous ) meetings of protest' against the peace terms and the cession of territory, engineered by former wellI known militarists, who appeared like j mushrooms. The National Union of. J German officers paraded the, streets | with ftbe : lmperial : colours, flying, and: bands playing' Kaiser hymns. The; parade; halted -at Bismarck's statue,' and swore a, ceremonial oath of alleglance to the frontiers he founded. ' Simultaneously General Von' Luden-; dorff appeared'and crowds cheered ani : ' then swarmed round the statue, and joined the .band playing the .national : hymn, '.„ concluding with the dramatic; Makers Free," A. Ministerialist, • Heir Sohoffer, addressed , the gathering, swearing dramatically'.that . the Government' would not surrender an inch of territory east or west.