THE CENTRAL POWERS

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

THE CENTRAL POWERS

ALLIED PREPARATIONS.

TO MEET HUNGARIAN MENACE,

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 31, 8.50 a.m. PARIS, March 30.

General Mangin will command the Roumanian and Polish armies. There will thus be unity of command from the Baltic to the Black Sea. The Supreme Council is also re-arming Roumania and sending locomotives and other equipment, in addition to assisting Serbia in view of the Hungarian menace. THE DANTZIG LANDING. OPPOSED BY ALL GERMAN PARTIES GOVERNMENT URGED TO STAND FIRM. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 31, 12.30 a.m. LONDON, March 30. The Daily Chronicle's Berlin correspondent states that all parties support the Government’s attitude regarding Dantzig, The Deutsche Zeitung urges the Government to stand firm. It describes the reply to the Entente as the first firm act of a weak Government.^ The Tageblatt says that the Poles cannot he regarded as allies of the Entente, and they are not one of the Powers with which Germany concluded the armistice. The Entente have experienced a surprise in Hungary, and must surely see that the Germans will not subscribe to a peace that will condemn them to a indeterminate period of slavery and deny them the right of selfdetermination, as.well as reducing them to treatment s as Cattlg. }*’ Vorwaerts says That the Entente apparently wishes to satisfy the Poles’ aspirations by securing Dantzig, and this regardless of the resultant dangers in The East. The Entente’s threats’ of the termination of the armistice arc scarcely' Conceivable. BERLIN, March 29. Herr Erzherger. speaking on behalf of the Government, demanded (lie Entente’s assurance that General Haller’s army will not occupy Dantzig,* operate against the Germans, or join the Bolsheviks: otherwise the Government will refuse to consent to the landing, because Paderewski has promised that West Prussia will be given to the Poles when General Haller arrives,