Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

cause it is depcndcnt on the Entente
Powers for food.
At the first meeting of the new Hun.
garian government in budapest Sun.
day, d dispatch from Berlin says, a
Soldiers and Workmen's Council for
entire Hungary was appointed accord
ing to plans entered into with the
agents of Lenine. The council imme.
diately started preparation of a bill
for the specialization of all industrial
activities.
A Bolshevist campaign is in prog
resS in Bohemia, according to d state
ment quoted by the Daily Mails Ber-
lin correspondent. This correspondent
says strong propaganda is being car
ried out simultaneously among both
the Czech and German workmen, the
Bohemians being assured that only
with Bolshevist aid can Germany Sc
cure the right of selfdetermination and
escape subserviency to Czech rule.
/ Berlin, March 24.-By A. P.)~-A
special dispatch to the Freiheit an.
nounces the disarmament of Entente
| troops. at Budapest. It is unconhrmed
however. and appears questionable
| Recent events at Budapes were not
the result Of the Entente note outlining
the new boundary between Hungary
and Rumania, according to the Nos
sische IetunE, which says that the
situation there was hopeless before
the note was delivered. Communists
were unemployed and have been ig-
nored by the socialist ministers, ac-
cording to the newspapers.
Paris, March 24.-(By A. P.)--Count
Won Brockdorff- f-Rantzau, the German
Foreign Minister, has sent Carl kaut-
SKY, one of the underSeCretaries in the
foreign ministry, to Moscow to sec
the chiefs of the Soviet Government
and to furnish an accurate report on
the situation which will allow the for.
eign minister to study methods as to
the bringing about of closer political
and economic relations with the Rus
sian Bolshevik government, says q
Zurich dispatch to the Matin.
Copenhagen, March 24.-(By A. P.(-
Karl Radek, the leading Russian Bo
sheVik agent in Germany, who was
arrested on February 13 in connection
with the Spartacan uprising, has beer
released by the German government
: according to a Berlin dispatch today
; This message reports fresh agitation
by the German Spartacans coinciden
with the Hungarian revolution and re
ports that in these circumstances I'M
release of Radek has created a bat
impression.
The authorities, the Berlin dispatc
adds, say that Radek entered German.
, in perfectly regular manner and tha
they have no reason for keeping hin
1 under arrest. Some results of the nev
, Spartacan agitation reported are
serious strike in Lubbock, riots in Stet
tin and the threat of a general strik
in Breslau.
: Reports of wireless exchanges be
, tween Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevil
= premier of Russia, and the foreign rep
resentative of the new Hungarian
: communistic government are received
I in advices from Budapest. Lenine wa
$ told that the Hungarian proletaria
d had seized power and had introduced
proletariat dictatorship. Greeting
were sent to Lenine as leader Of tn
international proletariat." In greetin
the Russian proletariat the new HUI
i garian Government expressed sol
darity with the revolutionary move
. ment.
a In his reply Lenine stated that h
!. had submitted the Hungarian greetin
!. TO the Bolshevist Congress at Moscow
which had received it with great er
q thusiasm. He added: In order t
!. communicate between Moscow an