11 JANUARY 1919, Page 3

Marshal von Mackensen, who after leaving Rumania with his troops

was interned in Hungary, was arrested last week by the French military authorities. With the connivance of the Hungarians, he was planning his escape. Mete now in safe custody. The situation in Hungary is still very unsatisfactory. The Creche have had to liberate the Slovak territories from Hungarian rule by force of arms. There has been fighting also between the Hungarians and the Southern Slave. Hungary is nominally occupied by small Allied forces, but the Magyar spirit of domination is in no way quenched by defeat.