Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-03-26
.BoLSHEvIk ARMY
REACHES BRODY;
ALLIES SHELLED
British Monitors Arrive at Buda-
pest After Being Under
Fire.
PANIC PREVAILS IN CAPITAL
Country Has Not Yet Resolved Upon
Soviet RepubIic-Americans Are
Assured of Protection-Rouma-
MIA Threatened by Big
"Red" Army.


army which is on it's way to Hungary
has reached Brody, according to the
latest news received here. Brody is a
city in northeastern Galicia, about fifty
miles east Of Lemberg. During the
first two years of the war Brody was
frequently the scene Of hard fighting
between the Russians and Germans
and Austrians.
British Monitors SheIIed.
Paris, March 26.-Unofiicial reports
from Budapest state that allied mis-
sions there are debating the advisabil-'
ity of leaving, and that the disarma-
ment of French troops in the city Is
being considered. Order prevails and
no injury has as yet been done for
eigners. American representatives are
being assured protection and may be
asked to remain, it is said.
Martial law has been declared and
the death penalty has been prescribed
for armed resistance to the bolsheviki,
for robbery and looting. A fine of
5000 crowns has been fixed for the
sale of alcoholic liquor and a fine OF
10000 crowns for drinking It. Two
British monitors are reported to have
arrived at Budapest, having been un-
der fire on their way up the Danube.
Other British and French vessels are
near at hand. A British patrol boat
was seized by the authorities, but was
returned with apologies by the govern.
ment.
War Report Doubted.
It is said that rumors that Hungary
has declared war on Roumania,
Czecho- Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia are
extremely doubtful. Six hundred Hun
garians who have been prisoners OF
war In Russia are said to be returning
daily across the Carpathians, being I'M
der the influence Of bolshevik doc
trines.
Jugo>Slav delegates to the peace con-
ference took a pesslmistic view Of the
,st(patio1 m their country, Poland and
9R6dmarA&A Ind sai1 A6t those regions
were likely, to be affected by the boil
shevik revolution In Hungary. g =
Poles RepuIss Huns. 2 III
Polish headquarters in Paris gave
out the following awireless copmunica-
ton received from Posen:
German patrols have been repulsed
near Koynia. Dielona and Ghojna. Ger.
man artillery and mine throwers are
active in the region of Newice. Ger
man patrols advancing near the Lo-
mica river and Overnia and Dombrova
have heeHrepalsedr There have been
ilf&nfy End machine-gun actions on
the rest Of the front.
"The re-establishment of railway
communication with Przemysl is ex-
pected shortly
Panic Prevails In Budapest is Report.
Copenhagen, March 26.-The claims
Of the Hungarian soviet government
to power, as set forth in its wireless
communications, are largely untrue,
according to Vienna dispatch to the
Achtuhr Abendblatt. A panic prevails
in Budapest, but the country, 1t Is
declared, has not yet resolved upon a
soviet republic.
"Reds" Menace Roumania.
Paris, March 26.-Budapest dis
patches to the Lausanne Gazette say
that Count Michael Karolyi, former
premier Of Hungary, has been nego-
tiating with the Moscow soviet govern
ment since last November through NJ.
Rakovsky, the bolshevik leader in
Ukraine, with the object Of introduce
ing bolshevism into Hungary, Rouma-
MIA and Jugo-Slavia.
"Roumania, which is the last ram
part against bolshevism, is seriously
threatened by 10000 Russian bolshe-
vik troops and six Hungarian divi-
sions," the dispatches say. ''The allies
should rush men, munitions and food
there, for every hour lost may have
serious consequences"
Dispatches received at Bern say that
Nikolai Lenine, the Russian bolshevik
premier, intends to send a delegation
to confer with Mr.. Pcgany, who is said
to be the "real ruling chief of Hun
gary" The Roumanians and Czecho-
Slovaks are reported to be modifying
troops in view of being compelled to
REINFORCE their frontier guards.
"a Hungarian division numbers ap-
$4,000 men).