THE CENTRAL POWERS

Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14025, 31 March 1919, Page 5

THE CENTRAL POWERS

RECURRENCE OF SPARTACIST DISORDERS. FURTHER RIOTING BY MINERS. OWING TO THE FOOD SHORTAGE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received. March 30, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, March 29. Spartacist disorders have recurred in the Essen area. A, mob at Witten endeavoured; to’ stqpm 1 th.e Volks Zeitung offices, but a cordon of police barred the entry to -the-building.T Bombs were freely thrown, arid 11 were killed and 37 wounded. The miners in the Dortmund and neighbouring districts are rioting owing to the food shortage. . GERMAN TRADE. LOOKING TO RUSSIA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) PARIS, March 28. The French are officially satisfied that Germany seeks political support in Russia, also an economic field there to replace what in the outside world. r \Z" BUDA PEST REPORTED QUIETER. FOOD TRAINS , HELD UP BY >;; ■ ll/ . . STRIKES. : . , - . GERMAN ;TROOPS .FOR DANTZIG. (Australian, and N-.Z,- Gable Assn.) (Received, .March j3p, 5.5 p.m.) !vJ a PARIS, .March 29. Latest reports state that Buda Pest is quieter. Four food trains are held up between Trieste and Buda Pest owing to a strike. From a French source it is learned that the National Guard in Austria is displaying Bolshevist The Germans are sending more troops :o Dantzig and also strengthening the coastal J.Am) ENTENTE'S EFFORTS ENDANGERED MENAGE OF BOLSHEVISM. AN ENTENTE NOTE. LIMITING HUNGARIAN BOUNDARIES. PRECIPITATES THE “CRISIS. i ■ ay *•- (Reuter’s 'Telegrams.) (Received March 30, 5.5 p.m.)

PARIS, March 29. Hungary’s adoption \of Bblshevism is 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 -pqf by the Peace Lortftfcb'chAvas intended to make the Hungarians 7 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 as a belt 140 miles long amis r 4,0 wide, virtually shutting I 'Hhrf£iffry_behind the rivers Theiss,'''Szamb9 i, asd''Maros. The' Note required the., withdrawal of the Hungarian troops behind the western boundary of the belt within ten days and authorised thh Roumanians to advance on the eastqrn boundary, the civil government within the zone to be exercised under: Allied control. Statements issued at Budapest accuse the Entente of foVdng^tLp y rpyolution, but the revolt is more probably due to the occupations of parts -of Hungary by the Gzecho-Slovaks and Roumanians, while signs are not wanting of German collusion with the Bolsheviks. MONARCHIST PROPAGANDA IN GERMANY. BULGAR - HUNGARIAN .-MOVEMENTS. PART OF PRErARRANGED PLAN. TO AFFECT THE PEACE ' TERMS. (Received March 30,' 5.5 p.m.) ~ ' LONDON, March 29. The Daily, iGhrdniclc’s Copenhagen correspondent slates That the German Government will perhaps remain in office long enough to sign peace, especially as nobody is, anxious to bear the odium of accepting a dictated peace. Competent observers predict that the Government will not last long after, as nobody is interested in the somnolent discussions at Weimar.

Intense .propaganda./on behalf of the Royafist' restoration is progressing. Monarchism is growing- and is beingaccelerated by appeals against the signing of the and the breaking up of the' Fatherland’s unity and integrity. The Sparlacists may also derive strength from re-awaken-ed nationalism similar to Hungary, where the people followed the revolutionary leaders into an alliance with the Bolsheviksj'rathei' than have the country occupied by foreign troops. The Hungarian and. , Bulgar movements are interpreted’ hi' some circles as part of a concerted plan long prearranged in Berlin to ripen on the eve of the presentation of the peace ■terms. 1 The originators counted' on the Entente nations .eventually quarrch Jing, amti latterly; hofjed that the Bolshevist manifestations- worn,id be taken, as a serlbus menace, mately: eksiqh'jterrifig.... :Dayligii't "’'robberies under arms are occurring frequently, in Berlin. Two robbers, wearing iron crosses, entered the Food Office.' They covered the clerks with revolvers and stoic nearly 10,000 bread, meat, sugar and coff-e cards. ‘Similar robberies of jewellers’ stocks and farmers-live-stocks are reported. The shops in -Budapest are closed for stocktaking-pending Stare control. Any shopkeeper disobeying will be shot.