The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-03-29
ALLIED FLAGS
HAULED DOWN
No American and British
Banners Now Flying in
Budapest.
TRAFFIC AT STANDSTILL
Austrian Railroad Strike
Spreads-30,000 Germans
Still in Walkout.

Berne. March 29.-The Hungarian
government has released members of
the Ukrainan mission arrested At
Budapest, restored property belong
ing to the mission valued at 1000, 1000
crowns and made an apology to UIk-
raine, according to the Ukrainian
press bureau here. The Ukrainian
government entered a protest follow
ing the arrest of it's mission at the
Hungarian capital.
Traffic at Standstill.
Copenhagen, March 29.-The strike
in Austria was extended on Friday
to the northern railway and traffic
between Vienna and the outside world
is almost at standstill, according
to Vienna advices received here. 1t
is said that if the holding up OF rood
trains continues today the bread
ration will be reduced by one-half
everywhere. next week. Reports re-
ceived here say that employees on the
state railroads also have struck, but
add that negotiations between the
government and the railroadmen's
unions continue.
Allied and U. S. Flags Down.
London, March 29-AII of the
American and British flags at Buda-
pest have been hauled down, said an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
that city today. The government Of
German Austria is reported to have
decided to recognize the Hungarian
soviet and to send delegate to rep
resent it at both Vienna and Buda-
pest. This representative may be Or.
Fenoyce, former professor of sociology
at Clark university at Worcester,
Mass.
Bella Kun, the boIshevik foreign
minister at Budapest, declared in a
statement that 1--WE are ready to live
in peace, but will fight for our in
terests."
10000 Workmen Out.
Copenhagen, March 90. The
strikes in the Ruhr industrial region
are extending, according to dis
patches from Essen today. Thirty
thousand men are reported out.
At a meeting of the strikers at
Langendreer, near Dortmund, on
Thursday, demands were formulated
including the formation of a revolu-
tionary workmen's guard, the estab-
lisment of political and economic re-
ernment and the disarmament of the
police throughout Germany.
Crime Wave in Berlin.
(By J. H. Greenwall.)
Berlin, March 2S.-(Via London,
March 29.l-(Exclusive Gable by the
/. n. S. and the London Daily Ex-
press. "A crime wave has grippcd
Berlin, and wild west" holdups are
occurring daily in the sacity and
suburbs. Many of the robbers wear
the uniforms of soldiers and sailors.
Two bandits held up the food office,
getting away with many food cards.
A fur store was raided and $1,000
worth of furs stolen.
No News of Allied ENJOYS.
Paris. March 29.-(Havas.)-No
definite information has been re-
ceived here regarding the status of
the allied mission at Budapest. A
dispatch from Rome asserts that the
missions have been neither interned
nor expelled, but have simply been
requested to abstain from communi-
eating with their governments until
the new Hungarian government has
been firmly established.
According to the Paris edition Of
the Daily Mail, Col. Vix. the chief OF
the French mission, has telegrapned
that he had been released and was
proceeding to Paris.
Princeton Man in Budapest.
Washington. March 2s.-The state