CENTRAL EUROPE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16884, 4 August 1919, Page 7

CENTRAL EUROPE.

A ROUMANIAN VICTORY. ■ SOVIET GOVERNMENT'S ■ RESIGNATION. .

; .By Electric Telegraph— Copvright. ' AustraJian. and N.Z. Cable Afisii. , Received 0.0 p.m., August 3rd. BOOHAREaT, July 31. ■ Roumanians comple'cely defeated the Hungarians at the Theiss, taking many prisoners and much booty. . LONIXIxN, July 31. Jhe Roumanians have driven, die Hungarians over the Theiss, and captured the Sdotnok bridgehead. They ore now pursuing the Hungarians beyond the river. The British representative at Vienna denies the reports of BelaKun's deposition. The Poles have now occupied all those parts of eastern Galicia assigned to them by the Peace Treaty. The Hungarian attack om,the Roumanians .failed disastrously. The Rouicanians, pursuing, took 8000 prisoners westward of the Theiss.

The Poles are , within eighteen miles of Minsk.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2, - It is reported that M.-Bedl, on behalf of the Hungarian Cabinet, has made overtures to the Allied representatives at Vienna for recognition of ihe new Government. < ]

LONDON, July 30. • ".Vienna, advices stalto that the Hungarian Commissary called on the Entente representative; Colonel- Cunningham, and suggested that negotiations bo commenced for a peaceful . resignation of the Soviet Government, and the formation of a new government in Hungary. The proposals were forwarded to Paris.

Received 12 5 a.m., August 4th. LONDON, August l.\, , A telegram f;:om Vienna states that the Roumanians -again defeated the , Hungarians and crossed the- - river] Misza near Tiysuafured. Three Hun-1 parkin regiments laid down-their arms. | refusing to fight th 6 Roumanians. BTTUA PEST, August 2. Belst Kun has resigned. Trad© unions have formed _a Socialist Government xrifli a vipw to necrotiations with the Allies. -Julius Beidl is Premier.