The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-24
SOVIET FORMED
BY HUNCARIANS
ON RUSS plan
Prepare Bill to Socialize In
dustries- Czech Army Sent
Against Hungary.
(By Associated Press)

government in Budapest Sunday, dis
patch from Berlin says, soldiers and
workmen's council for entire Hungary
was appointed according to plans en-
tered into with the agents Of Lenine.
The council Immediately started pre-
paration of bill for the specialization
of all Industrial activities.
The Austrian central workmen's
council has decided not to join the
Hungarian movement in introducing
Soviet government in Austria, dis
patch from Vienna says. The council,
1t is declared, pointed out that such
course was impossible for Austria be-
cause 1t is dependent on the entente
powers for food.
A Czecho-Slovak army has been
sent against Hungary, according to an
official report received in Vienna and
forwarded here.
Situation Long Hopeless.
Recent events at Budapest were not
the result of the entente note outlin-
ing the new boundary betw cen Hun
gary and Rumania, according to the
Berlin Vossische Zeitung, which says
that the situation there was hopeless
before the note was delivered. Com
munfsts were unemployed and have
been ignored by the Socialist minis
ters, according to the newspapers.
Mass demonstration began last We'd
nesday when demands were made that
every unemployed person receive a
sum of 500 crowns for relief be-
sides payment of house rent and a
reduction of food prices by one-half.
The newspaper declares that the revo-
luton was impending when the en-
tente note arrived and Count Michael
Karolyi, the premier seized the oppor-
tunity In his farewell proclamation to
represent himself as a friend of the
proletariat.
Greetings to Lenine.
Reports of wireless exchanges be-
tween Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik
premier of Russia, and the foreign rep
resentative of the new Hungarian COM
munistic government are received in
advices from Budapest. Lenine was
told that the Hungarian proletariat
had seized power and had Introduced
a proletariat dictatorship. Greetings
were sent to Lenine as leader Of the
international proletariat." In greeting
the Russian proletariat, the new Hun
garian government expressed solidar-
ity with the revolutionary movement.
In his reply, Lenine stated that he
had submitted the Hungarian greet
ing to the Bolshevfst congress at Mos
COW, which had received it with great
enthusiasm. He added: "In order to
communicate between Moscow and
Budapest and report on the military
situation, it is necessary to maintain
permanent wireless communication be-
tween the two cities" He concluded
by extending Communist greetings
and q handshake."
karoIyi FIgurehead
LONDON, March 24-The revolu-
ton in Hungary caused great excite
ment in Vienna, but did not surprise
those who were aware of the true con-
dition of affairs, says the Vienna cor
respondent of the Telegraph. He says
the communists of Hungary have long
been the real masters of the country
and have been only awaiting an oppor-
tunity to get rid of Count Karolyi,
who is considered to have been never
more than a figurehead.
The correspondent declares there
are no elements in Hungary capable
of making a stand against the extre-
mists and that even in Czecho-Slova-
kia there are strong Bolshevik infiu-
ences. He points out that experts
agree there is very grave danger of
Bohemia following the example of
Hungary. The situation is attributed
by the correspondent to the failure of
the peace conference at Paris to recog-
nize the seriousness Of the situation
and occupy Budapest with entente
troops. He says the only way to save
the situation is to send American or
British forces there, but adds:
Where battalion would have suf-
feed formerly, a brigade would be
necessary now."
Concern in Washington
WASHINGTON, March 24.-Grave
concern was evident today in official
and diplomatic quarters here over the
news Of the seizure of government in
Hungary by Bolsheviki regime which
has inaugurated its advent by declar-
ing state of war with the entente
powers and seeking an alliance with
the Russian Bolsheviki.
No one in authority would attempt
to forecast the result or to discuss
what measures might be adopted by
the associated powers, chiefly because
virtually all information received here
has been in press dispatches and the
state department so far is without Of
fetal advices on the subject.
With President Wilson and Secre-
tary Lansing in Paris, the attitude Of
the American government toward any
measures that may be proposed will
be determined and announced there.