THE CENTRAL POWERS

Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14028, 3 April 1919, Page 5

THE CENTRAL POWERS

DANGERS OF COMMUNISM IN HUNGARY. GERMANS ORDERED TO LEAVE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received April 2, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, April 1. An former Hungarian Minister describes the Budapest Government’s statements of the,situation as untrue. If the communistic regime jmntihues thousands will starve to death. Workmen; have taken ov£r the factories,-re-sulting in large numbers of unemployed. It is reported from Budapest that the Hungarian Soviet made ; an offer to Germany to form an alliance against the Entente. It is rumoured that Lenin made a similar offer to the German Government. The people’s commissary at Budapest is organising a Red Guard consisting of 30,000 dependable volunteers for the purpose of maintaining order. The commander of the town, who is believed to be the German representative at Budapest, has ordered all Germans to leave Hungary. The miners on strike in the Ruhr district have telegraphed to the Hungarian Government promising to use every means to establish a German Soviet Republic. HUNGARIAN MISINTERPRETATION. OF THE ENTENTE’S NOTE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received April 2, 9.30 p.m: VIENNA, April 1. Colonel Vix, commander of the Military Mission at Budapest, states that Count Karolyi misinterpreted the Entente’s note regarding the new lines of demarkation, which intended to create a neutral zone between the Hungarian and Roumanian troops, not to establish a new political frontier. A SEVEN AND A-HALF HOUR DAY. CONCEDED BY GERMAN GOVERNMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received April 2, 11.30 p.m. AMSTERDAM, April 1. It is reported that the German Government has expressed a willingness to institute a working day of seven and a| half'hours. ,’A - ••'j j

THE MACHINATIONS IN HUNGARY.

INVASIONS PLANNED.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable As3n.) \ Received April 2, 11.5 a.m. f LONDON, April 1.

Prince Windischgratz, the former Hungarian Food Minister, interviewed at Geneva, declared that Count Karolyi’s. following consisted mostly of nobles ruined by gambling. Count Karolyi made many concessions to the Communists, until the latter overthrew the Government. The present Government only represents Budapest, and is mostly composed of Jews, hut is a more logical arrangement that Count Karolyi’s phantom rule. Two thousand Anglo-French troops would he sufficient to restore order in Hungary now, but the situation may be very different six months later. It is unwise to send Czech, Roumanian or Serbian troops, whose presence would arouse national antipathies. Herr Belakum, the Foreign Minister, was a journalist prisoner of war in Russia, where he became intimate with l/enin. It is reported that the latter provided funds for Belakum to publish a rampantly 'communistic newspaper in Budapest.. Ccrarit Karoli offered to serve the new Government as a private in assisting the revolution to destroy the capitalists, whose representatives hi Paris were ready to reduce Hungary’s innocent population to beggardom. A Russian wireless message states that Tchitcherin sent a message'to Herr Belakum- that Germany, in obedience to the Entente, had formed new detachments for a general offensive against the Ttendh. General Niesse'l,'at Warsaw, ts forming a junction with the Polish army, which is the ‘Ceritre of ,a new invasion. The right think consists •of General Pellura’s troops. 'The German ’left flank has taken Tukkum, and Ts now approaching Hponevij. The Poles are progressing towards Vilna and Mins'k, and have occupied ’Baranovitchi. The Ukrainian right is completely disorganised. Simultaneously with the uphcuval in Hungary, Admiral Colchak ■with his Siberian army commenced a rapid 'Offensive in the ea£t. He penetrated‘through Perm and'occupied Ufa. This ■advance has been "stopped and rapid 'progress made against General PeCTurtFs forces.