Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-04
MANG|N SENT TO
CURB HUNGARY
French General Called From LOr-
raine to Take Command
in Balkans.
ITALIAN TROOPS ADVANCE,
New BoIshevist Government at Buda-
pest Begins Reorganization Of
the ACCOMPLISHMENTS Reach .
Raab to Reinforce Czechs.

Paris.-France and Italy have en-
barked on military operations against
the Bolshevist menace in Central and
Eastern Europe. This activity is coin
cidental with the semi-official an
nouncement through Havas dispatch
that no direct news has been received
in Paris regarding the allied missions
at Budapest. 1t is believed that with
the exception of the Czecho-Slovak
mission they are still interned.
General Mangin, one Of the leading
officers Of the French army, will be re-
called from his command at Mayence,
the newspapers announce, to undertake
a mission, the character and scope OF
which sis indicated plainly by the
events in Hungary" ~.
Following the report from Vienna by
way of Berlin and Copenhagen that a
Czecho- -Slovak force had occupied tie
Hungarian town of Raab, on the Dam
ube, and taken possession of the gun
foundries there, q Central News dis"
patch from Vienna announces that ltal-
ian troops have also entered Raab, and
that another italian advance force Of
1000 men has occupied Pressburg.
Pressburg is fifty miles northwest OF
Raab and thirty-five miles southeast OF
Vienna, on the Hungarian side OF the
border.
A Berlin dispatch to the Paris Temps
says that the Italians occupied Press
burg apparently on the request OF the
Czecho- -Slovaks, or at least after pre-
vious understanding with them.
According to the Gaulois, General
Mangin is to receive very important
command in eastern Europe, undoubt-
edly the Balkans, with view to possi-
BILE operations on the Hungarian fron-
tier and southwestern Russia.
General J. NJ. G. Malleterre, the mil
itary critic, in an article in the Matin
apparently refecting military opinion,
suggests that as means of checking
the Bolsheviki and rendering definite
the victory Of the allies, allied armies
should march through Germany and
effect junction with Poland.
General Malleterre adds the allies
must finish the job by thunderstroke
and declares, the sword of Marshal
Foch is not yet sheathed.
General Mangin is one Of the best,
offensive leaders produced in the
French army during the war. 1t was
the troops of Mangin's Third Army
who stopped the enemy on the Sois-
sons sector in the critical days after
the beginning Of the. German offensive
on July Is, and it was the French,
American and British troops under his
command who began the allied coun-
teroffensive which ended in the armis-:
tice on November II.
Copies of wireless message sent by
George Tchitcherin, Russian Bolshevik
foreign minister, to various leaders IN
Hungary show his indignation that the
world refuses to accept the Hungarian
revolution as genuine and discredits Its
Bolshevik character.
The new Hungarian government con-
sists of twentyfour Jews and six
Christians, the Reichspost of Vienna
says. The paper expresses belief the
Magyars will not submit to such gov
ernment.
The soldiers will get 450 crowns
($9O) monthly, and will be equipped,
armed and fed at the expense Of the
state. Two or more soldiers belonging
to the same family will get an extra
allowance of fifty crowns ($10) a
month, and those who have dependents
will get extra pay of 300 crowns ($G0)
every six months.