AFFAIRS IN HUNGARY
A MENACING SITUATION i LARGE FORCES UNDER ARMS RUTHLESS TERRORIST IN CHARGE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received October 7, 5.5 p.ra. LONDON, October G. The Daily Chronicle’s special correspondent at Odenhurg stales Iha' 1200 members of Ihe Hungarian gendarmerie, under Lieut. Oszcnburg, who is known to he a Karlisl, are now responsible for Hie maintenance o( order in Odenhurg, wilti its -iO,OOO fphabSlanls. Oszcnburg may at any moment go over to tiie Irregulars, with wtiom tie is in touch. Irregular bands now number .’IOOO, but can be expanded to 30,000 under Colonel Pronay, who is a ruthless terrorist, and determined to withhold Burgenland from Austria. All the irregulars, however, do not favour the recall of the cx-Ernperor Karl, and Ids return would probably result in civil war. There was a time when a battalion of Allied troops could' have cleared the country, but a division would now tie required, and soon throe divisions will he the least that could cope with the task.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14770, 8 October 1921, Page 5
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