Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-25
SITUATION IN HUNGARY CAUSE
 FOR ANXIETY
BOlsheviki Threaten a Re
 newal of Hostilities.
CAUSED BY ACT OF
 PEACE CONFERENCE
'\0 Indications As To Extent Oi Com troI or New Regime In
 Reports.

Washington,( Mar. 24.-Advices to the state department today from three widely separated European sources tended to increase the anxie- ty of officials over the situation in Hungary. Bolsheviki clements appar- ently had assumed complete control of the government at Budapest with a threat of renewal of hostilities.
 There was no indication as to the extent of the control of the new re- gime beyond the capital and in the absence and the other details, off cials were reluctant to discuss the situation at length. It appeared from today's advices however, that the crisis resulted from the line of de- markation established by the peace conference in crcumscribing the territory of Hungary and the general economic situation in Budapest.
 Blow Too Severe.
 The recognition of the extreme claims of the Rumanians and Czecho Slovaks and the establishment of neutral zones between these lines and the limits allowed to Hungary, which zone was to be held by the French until the final peace treaty was completed, was said to have been more than the old Hungarian govern ment was able to accept and remain in power. It ws suggested that the fact that these lines were not to be the final limitations of the new Hungarian state was not appreciated by the Hungarians, who apparently proceeded upon the theory tht they were to lose even the neutral zone occupied by the French
 The safety of foreigners was a feature of the news that appeared cheering to state department off ! cials. A number of Americans are in what was formerly Hungary on var ious missions for the peace confer ence and the inter-allied food com mission, but most of them are in 1 Vienna.
 Will Aid League.
 Senator Hitchcock, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, in statement regarding the situa- ton in Hungary said he would do 1 much to wipe out questions between the nations represented at the peace conference and would aid in bringing about final adoption of the league of nations plan.
 State department officials who are familiar with conditions hereto 1 fore existing in Hungary were sur prised by the rapirdity with which bolshevism swept into control in Budapest and were inclined to doubt that it had succeeded in reaching out of the cities to include the peasant agricultural class. The peasants. were said to have been we'll satisfied hwith their treatment under the land owning class, and consequently would not be fertile field for the propaga- tion of bolsheviki theories. One off cial suggested that the inclusion of peasants in the new government, call- ed the revolutionary government of workers, peasants and soldiers coun- cils," instead of, as it Russia. the government of the 'workers and sol- diers councils" might be an attempt to persuade the peasants to join the movement.
 ,l Revolution Is Real. q Today's advices came from Bel grade. Berne and Copenhagen and related to different features of the movement. each. however, referred to the revolution as an accomplished :, fact. The Serbian advices declared that the new Magyar government had announced that hostilities would begin last Friday night, but they did
 not state against whom the hostili- ties were ordered, or whether they had actually begun. The Berne dis patches threw some light on the per- sonnel of the new government.
 The appointment of Bella Kun as minister of foreign affairs was par : ticularly disturbing to officials as he
 was an aide de camp to Leon Trotz- ky in Russia. The new minister of war was described as having an or 2 derly in the Second army who was once punished for indiscretion in mil. itary affairs.
 Government OyerthrOwn. The state department advices were ' summarized in this statement:
 "The state department has received la dispatch from Belgrade that tho < Hungarian government was overturn
 ed by the communist revolutionar.
 element under Bolshevist leadership 7, in Budapest on Friday, while tele = graph and other communications werl cut off and there was some shootin: 2 and other disorders, all the foreign . CTS in Budapest are believed to b' ,s. safe
 Through Serbian sources .infor
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