Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03
BUDAPEST HAS
SUNDAYS" ONLY
Red Army Rapidly Being
Formed of Bolshevik
Converts
SHORT RULE PREDICTED
Lenine Sends Daily Messages
to Kun-Order Declared
Prevailing ,
SHORT RULE PREDICTED
By the Associated Press

Budapest. Sunday, March 80 (Delayed)
--"Every day is Sunday" in Budapest.
The shops are closed and the workers
are having a holiday. The street cars
are loaded with passengers, but few
automobiles are to be seen except those
used by officials.
The commune has nationalized man.
sions, and the richest families are re-
stricted to the fewest rooms possible and
have been forced to discharge their
servants Civilians. have been ordered
TO surrender all firearms, with the al
tentative of death. This alternative
has resulted in general compliance with
the regulation.
A Red army is rapidly being formed,
with Hungarian prisoners of war from
4 Russia as its basis. These men are
thought to be converts to Bolshevsm
Bella Kun, the Foreign Minister himself
is a repatriated prisoner.
Regime Lasts While Food Does
It is prophesied that the present
regime will live as long as thete is
food, after which uprisings are expected.
There are pessimists who declare the
government will endure less than a
month, 1t being pointed out that its
i success will be partly dependent upon
the success of the Russian Bolshevik
army to establish corridor from Kiev
to Budapest by way of Bessarabia and
Bukowina Budapest is orderly and the
government is making every effort to
stabilize conditions.
Bella Kun receives hundreds Of tele-
grams of an official nature every day,
hain Niyn-
lsi Lenine the Russian Boshevik pre-
mier. He receives newspaper men freely.
but has ordered that their dispatches
be censored for the purpose of cutting
down the material TO be sent over al
ready crowded wires as we'll as to elm
mate Objectionable features. Kun is
J most anxious to deny reports relative
to the communication of women in Hun
gary, which he declares to be "prepos-
ferrous" He also denies rumors of as
sassinations and disorders. OF the
twentyfour members of the government
nineteen are Jews.
~ In Pennsylvania. following the prac-
jtIce in Moscow the churches have been
I converted into music halls. In these.
the best seats are reserved for the
proletariat.
The government officials do not pay
house rent and have priority on food
stuffS and clothing.
The Poster Lloyd. which consists Of
four Sheets contains a large advertise
men today dealing with the benefits to
y the people from joining the Red army.
The news in this journal is confined to
official acts of the government. one Of
7 which proclams that boys may enter the
!. .training school Of the army. which Of
hcially is designated Red
Reduce Hotel Prices
Prices have been reduced in the ho-
tells. A commission Of six men visited
the Hotel Hungar'a and asked one man
what he was paying. Replying that he
was being taxed eighteen crowns the
commissioners exclaimed:
"These robbers. In the future you
will pay one crown
The Peoples Finance Ministry also
has fixed the prices of foreign moneys,
-alloting for dollar fifteen crowns. and
for an English pound seventytwo
crowns. All gold, jewelry and precious
stones of value of more than 1000
crowns must be remitted to the state.
Insurance companies have been social
ized.
The French and Italian troops have
= been sent to their own frontiers. The
s British commandant, Major Freemsn, is
& staying in Budapest until a vessel comes
4 up the Danube to take away the British
subjects and Allied or neutral persons
desiring to depart Professor Philip
4 Brown, Lieutenant Weiss and Professor
x Archibald Coolidge, Of the American
commission, are staying at the Hotel
Ritz.
Berlin, April 3.-(By A. P.)-Reports
a from Budapest say the people are flee
II ing in increasing numbers from that
Hcity. One hundred and forty promi-
( nent political figures have been ar