The Wiener Zeitung which failed to arrive the evening before 
yesterday, and following it, all the Vienna evening papers report: 

“The Hungarian insurgents’ plan to relieve Komorn has been completely 
thwarted. The advantage they gained by their temporary occupation of Waitzen has 
also been wrested from them, for Lieutenant-Field Marshal Csorich’s division has 
driven them out of this position again. With the imposing reinforcements 
proceeding to the royal imperial army from all directions, a most successful 
resumption of the offensive by the royal imperial troops already in the very near 
future can be predicted.” * 

This royal imperial martial-law report, however, can already now 
almost certainly be affirmed to be a pure lie. If there were anything in 
it, a Bulletin would have been issued within the next 24 hours at the 
latest, and that has not happened. Moreover, all the other reports 
contradict this assertion, made without either a date or any detail. 

We have no wish to repeat the many rumours circulating in 
Vienna and Breslau, to the effect that Komorn has been relieved, 
Gorgey is marching on Vienna, Dembinski and Vetter have 
outflanked the imperial army and cut off its retreat to Vienna, that 
the Landsturm has been raised in all comitats on both sides of the 
Danube etc. So long as the postal connection between Pest and 
Vienna is not cut, little credence can be given to these rumours. 

Up to the 18th, there was no mention of the post from Pest having 
failed to arrive in Vienna. The latest news from there was dated the 
afternoon of the 14th. This contains not a word about the recapture 
of Waitzen. 

* Wiener Zeitung No. 91 (evening supplement), April 16, 1849.— Ed. 

It will be remembered that some days ago the Ost-Deutsche Post 
already reported that’ Waitzen had been recaptured. It is quite 
possible that Waitzen had to be taken twice, and that the imperial 
forces re-occupied it temporarily before finally being driven out. 
The fact that at a moment of great peril the official paper designed 
to dispense reassuring news writes with jesuitical reservations about 
this temporary re-occupation, is quite consistent with the previous 
practice of the Bulletins. 

On the 14th nothing at all was known in Pest of the alleged capture 
of Waitzen. On the contrary, the Lloydin a report of this date wrote: 

“For the present, the Hungarians are behaving pretty arrogantly in Waitzen. They 
send off letters and parcels which pass through and arrive here safely, except that they 
are first opened and searched and officially sealed by the Hungarian Defence. 
Council.?5° Under such a cover a dispatch arrived here yesterday containing the news 

that Major-General G6tz was buried in the Hungarian camp with full military 
honours. Twelve battalions are said to have been paraded for the solemn occasion.” * 

All the other Pest news of the same date simply provides further 
evidence of the fear of the Austrians there. The Spiegel has this 
report: 

“T am writing to you when I am just on the point of bringing my family to safety. 
Last night it was rumoured that all Germans were to be murdered (!). This and similar 
rumours are following each other at a frantic pace; the fanaticism of the Magyars 
threatens to erupt at any moment.” 

Visits to the camp are prohibited, the bell-towers are occupied; the 
Magyars in Pest are said to have intended to ring the alarm at the 
first attack from outside. Outside Pest itself, little has happened since 
the 11th. At noon on the 14th a few skirmishes took place when the 
Hungarian outposts showed themselves in the vicinity. It is also 
claimed that the thunder of guns has been heard. 

The royal imperial finances appear to be in a bad way too. 
Windischgratz announced on the 10th that the imperial authorities are 
now issuing Hungarian paper money, drafts on the Hungarian 
revenues, at a fixed rate of exchange, in denominations of 5, 10, 100 
and 1,000 florins. With these scraps of paper the royal imperial army 
will pay for the provisions supplied to them, and so, just before 
quitting, they will steal a few millions from Hungary. Such a dirty 
system of robbery as carried on by the honourable friends of the 
Kolnische Zeitung, a system composed of elements from all levels of 
civilisation, from the plundering by Croat-Tartar nomads down to 
the most modern paper-money swindling and fraudulent bill- 
jobbing, is wholly unprecedented. 

And while even the Austrian banknotes are subject to exchange 
fluctuation, these notes must be accepted at their full face value in 
private dealing! 

All these items of news confirm the expectation of an imminent 
Austrian retreat from Pest rather than the claim that Waitzen has 
been taken. 

An occupation of Waitzen is moreover almost impossible on 
strategic grounds. By all reports, the imperial forces have been 
everywhere thrown back over the Danube and the Gran, Pest being 
the sole point they hold on the left bank. Pest could not be left 
without cover; hence the attack could only take place from the right 
bank, the imperial armies would have had to cross the Danube under 
fire of the superior Hungarian artillery and then to drive a superior 
army out of Waitzen. To do all this would be quite impossible; and 
even if it were possible, it could not be done without a great battle. 
But no one, not even the Wiener Zeitung, knows anything about such 
a battle. All this is supposed to have been done by Csorich’s division. 
One division! . 

Windischgratz is happily in Olmütz. Welden is not yet with the 
army, but he has sent out in advance pompous proclamation to his 
soldiers, these “heroes (!) on whom the gaze of half the world (!) is 
fixed”, a proclamation which could have been written by the 
Kolnische Zeitung in those glorious days of its Theiss manoeuvres. He 
describes his opponents as “infamous villains”, who have made 
Hungary into a “tool of venal Poles”, threatens them with 
destruction, and then adds: “But once more we offer our hand in 
reconciliation to our brother who has been led astray!”* Herr 
Welden therefore wants to negotiate. The Magyars will be much obliged. 

Little is heard of the reinforcements which the Austrians are 
supposed to have already received. Eight battalions (?) are said to be 
stationed at Neuhausel on the Waag; that is how much the five 
brigades on the Gran? must have shrunk already. 

Six battalions are reported to be on the march from Vienna and 
the Fleischhackerstrasse is said to be choked with the waggons on 
which the reinforcements are arriving. 

A reserve camp of 25,000 men is supposed to be formed on the 
Marchfeld near Vienna, another at Pettau (Styria) of 15,000 men, 
and a third of 20,000 to 30,000 men at Tabor and Budweis in 
Bohemia—everything to be quite ready by the 10th of May! Where 

are these troops to come from!! Haynau’s corps is not coming, 
Radetzky cannot spare it. Instead he has sent all his light cavalry. 
Finally, Vogl is said to be expected in Eperies. 

We defer the news from the Banat and Transylvania until the 
second edition, since it contains nothing of urgency.