The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-28
HUNGARY DECLARES
WAR ON ENTENTE;
JOINS RUSSIANS
Great Army of Reds Said to Be
Ready for Battle.
LARGE ESTATES ARE SEIZED
Reports Say Several Regiments Of
czecho-Slovaks, Inspired by Boil
shevist Propaganda, Have Mu-
tinted and Joined the Reds.

Vienna, March 24.-The Hungarian
government is reported to have signed
proclamation acknowledging a
state of war between Hungary and the
entente powers"
The Karolyi cabinet, according to
latest word from Budapest, has been
succeeded by a new coalition govern
Haent, which is joining hands with the
Russian troops reported to be march
ing into Hungary.
uIsler state of siege.
All Hungary has turned bOlsheviSt.
Communists and extreme socialists
dominate the new regime.
"Red" Army Ready.
4 great Russian bolsheyist army is
reported to be ready between Brody
and Stanisfau.
Several regiments of Czecho-Slovaks,
inspired by bolshevist propaganda,
have mutinied and gone over to the
reds. They are now in Hungary.
There is danger, according to dis
patches, of the red wave spreading
through the ranks of the CZechO-Slo-
yak army in the south, owing to ex-
tensive agitation carried On for
months by Lenine and his lieutenants.
karoIyi Stirs Masses.
Count Michael karOlyi, before re-
signing as premier, which Office he has
held ever since the overthrow of the
Hapsburg monarchy, issued a prOcla-
nation urging a world war of the
proletariat for justice" and pleading
f0r support of the Hungarian masses
against the decision of the Paris peace
congress to occupy Hungary.
Soviets Pick Chief.
Copenhagen, March 24.-Alexander
AsEsiorbai has assumed the presidency of
the Hungary revolutionary govern
meth of workers, peasants and SOL
dierS' councils, with Bella Kun as for
eign cOmmissary and Joseph Pogany
as war commissary, according to Buda-
pest dispatches.
1t is reported that Kun has applied
to Lenine for armed assistance against
the allied armies, which have occupied
the greater part of Hungary for the
purpose of putting Down the bolshe-
Yik uprising.
The formation of the new Hungari-
an soviet government followed the res
ignatiOn of the Karolyi cabinet Friday
as a result of the new boundaries be-
tween Hungary and R0umania fixed at
Paris.
Rioting Begins.
RiOting throughout Hungary has ac-
companied the change in government,
according to reports reaching here.
In Budapest, which has not as yet
been occupied by the allied forces,
mobs Saturday stormed the post Office
and other public buildings and de-
stroyed the monuments erected to Hon
we'd heroes.
a All Power Is Taken.
A dispatch from Budapest gives the
proclamation of the new Hungarian
government as follows:
1.-The proletariat of Hungary from
today has taken all power in its own
hands. BY the decision of the Paris
conference to occupy Hungary the pro-
visioning of revolutionary Hungary be-
comes utterly impossible.
Under these circumstances the sole
means open for the Hungarian gov
eminent is a dictatorship of the pro-
letariat.
Seize All Gig Estates.
Legislative, executive and judicial
ry,t ~ will hn IA
torship of the workers, peasants and
soldiers councils.
1.-The revolutionary government
council will begin forthwith work for
the realization of communist socialism
1.-THE council DEGREES the socialism
ton of large estates, mines, big indus
tries, banks and transport lines, de-
clares complete solidarity with the
Russian soviet government, and offers
to contract an armed alliance with the
proletariat of Russia"
appeal to People,"
The proclamation by Count Karolyi
Announcing the resignation of the
Hungarian cabinet, of which he was
the head, after referring to the deci
sion of the peace conference at Paris
to occupy Hungarian territory, says
according to dispatch from Vienna
1.-The entente mission declared that
it intends to regard the demarcatior
fine as the political frontier. The ain
of further occupation of the country
is manifestly to make Hungary the
jumping-off ground and the region OF
operations against the Russian soviet
army which is fighting on our frontier
The land evacuated by us, however. is
to be the pay of the Czech troops by
means of whom the Russian sovie,
army is to be overcome.
"As provisional president of the
Hungarian peoples republic, 1 turn
as against the Paris peace conference
to the proletariat of the world fol
Justice and support"
Calls All keighbors.
Paris, March 24.-The proclamation