Several curious little pieces of news have come from Central
Europe. First, of course, the German situation has reacted unfavourably on Austria, and it looks as if the Chancellor, Dr. Seipel, will not be able to give a very hope- ful report to the League at Geneva after all. Then there is the complicated incident on the Rumanian Frontier, where Hungarian troops are accused of massing. On the 13th the Inter-Allied Commission of Control sent a Note to the Hungarian Government requesting it to desist from its provocative attitude. The Hungarian Government, of course, denied that it was provocative, and the members of the Commission told the Times correspondent that the " incident " was greatly exag- gerated and only concerned the shooting of a hare by Rumanian sentries. Meanwhile, the Little Entente representatives have been meeting at the Court of King Alexander, Belgrade, and have passed a resolution "that Hungary shall be compelled to discontinue her mobiliza- tion and prevent the incursion of bands of irregulars into the territory of the Little Entente." And lastly comes the possibly sinister intelligence from New York that Jugo-Slavia has just attempted to buy half a million rifles from the U.S. War Department, but has been refused by President Harding.
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