The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-03-26
Czechs Invade Hungary.

LONDON, March zo.-SZeSH tiooPo
have begun their invasion of Hun
gary and have occupied Raab, sixty
seven miles northwest Of Budapest,
said a Central News dispatch from
Vienna today. There is a big arsenal
at Raab.
The occupation of the Czecho-Slo-
yak legation at Budapest by reds ana
the seizure of a great amount OF 30
hemian funds Is officially announced
at Prague, according to adVices from
that city. Many Czech officials at
Budapest were robbed.
(Prague is the capital OF the new
CZecho- -Slovak republic)
Berlin reports that Czech social
lists threaten a general strike If there
is general mobilization for a cam
paign against the Hungarlans.
The Berne correspondent of the
Central News quotes Prince WIN
disch- Graetz, former food controller
of Hungary, as saying that 1000 al
'i9d soldiers could GUST the bolsheVlk
soviet at Budapest.
National Council Dissolved.
Copenhagen, March 25.-The Hun
earian national council has been dis
solved on motion of its president,
Budapest dispatch today states.
Spreading Toward Germany.
(By Alfred G.. Andersen.)
Berlin. via London, March 26.-E
y. S.)-The bolshevik movement In
hungary is spreading toward Ger
many. Italian troops under command
of Gen. Picciona are reported on the
move in Hungary and are said TO
have occupied the city of Pressburg.
Bohemians VS.. hungarians.
Basle, March 26.--Martial law was
declared throughout Bohemia today,
as a result of the bolshevik move
ment in Hungary.
The Bohemian government is mo-
bilizing five classes of reservists for
A campaign against the Hungarian
bolsheviks.
Ex-Premier Arrested.
London, March 26.-According to 4
Budapest dispatch to the Vienna
Doutsche Volksblatt former Premier
Alexander Wekerle (who has been
reported under arrest at BudapesO
is charged with introducing meas
ures for the specialization of landed
estates in a form enabling him to
dispose on favorable terms of his
own heavily mortgaged estates.
Tlelu OP'
Berlin, March 26.-(Via Copen-
hagen Ut is reported here from
Vienna that communication between
Vienna and Budapest has been in
terrupted through the capture by the
Czecho- Slovaks of the town OF Raap
Non the Danube, about midway be-
tween the two cities. Large Hun
garian cannon foundries are situated
at Raab.
To Bring karolyi to Trial.
Copenbagen, March &c. - Count
Michael Karolyi, former president OF
Hungary. has been arrested and will
Sbe brought before a revolutionary
court for trial. a Vienna dispatch tC
the National Tidende, of Copen-
hagen, says.
New Red Army Formed.
Paris. March 26.-The French for
eign office has been advised that one
of the first acts of the ne~ Hun
garian government was to release the
Russian Red Cross delegation that
had been imprisoned in Budapest re
cause it had been circulating bolshe-
vik propaganda.
A new red army is being formed
in Hungary, said a wireless press DIS
patch from Zurich. The soviet gov
ernment at Budapest has ordered the
newspapers not to criticize the COM
munist movement.
Denies Troops Disarned.
Copenhagen, March 26.-The COM
mander of the French troops in Bu-
dapest, according to a wireless dis
patch from the Hungarian capital,
enies the report that his soldiers
have been disarmed by the COM
munists.
French Colonel Wounded
Berne. March 26.-Col. Nix, head OF
the French mission in Budapest, has
been wounded and taken prisoner by
forces of the new Hungarian govern
ment, according to a report received
in Pragus and transmitted here MAJ.