GREAT VICTORY FOR BOLSHEVIKS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17535, 31 March 1919, Page 5

GREAT VICTORY FOR BOLSHEVIKS.

HISTORY OP THE TROUBLE

(Received March 30, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, March 29.

Hungary's adoption of Bolshevism Ip regarded as most serious, chiefly as endangering the Entente efforts to build up the Roumanian, Polish and Czecho-Slovak States as- bulwarks against German domination in Central Europe. All three states are menaced by the advancing Bolshevik armies.

The neutral zone decided upon by . the Peace Conference was intended to make the Hungarians desist from attacking the Roumanians and communicating with the Russians, while it closed the gap between Poland and Roumania.

According to a Vienna dispatch, the Entente Note which precipitated the crisis defined the zone as a belt 140 miles long and 40 miles wide, virtually shutting Hungary behind the rivers Theiss, Szamos, and JVlaros. ' The Note required the withdrawal of Hungarian troops behind the western boundary of thu belt within ten days and authorised the Roumanians to advance on the eastern boundary, civil government within the zone to be exercised under Allied control.

; Statements issued at Budapest accuse the Entente of forcing a revolution but the revolt is more probably due to the occupation of parts of Hungary by Gzecho-Slovaks /nd Roumanians, While signs are not wanting .of German collusion with Szecho-Slovaks.