Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-03-27
BOLSHEv|ST GRIP
On ALL BUDAPEST
Russia Helps Feds and Germany
May Aid Plot.
SWAY OF SOVIET COMPLETE
Masaryk, First President of Czecho-
SloVaks, Is Reported Out-Mos-
cow and Hungarian Capt.
tai Linked.

Copenhagen, March 25.-A dispatch
from Budapest says the soviet govern
ment has occupied ali theaters and
tionary plays and addresses on the
significance of the revolution. All the
dispatches received from the various
sources indicate that the uprising in
Hungary was not spontaneous re-
volt, but was carefully engineered by
the Russian bolshevik leaders, with
more than a probability Of help from
Germany.
Copenhagen, March 25.-A Czecho-
SlOvak army has been sent against
port received in Vienna and forward
ed here.
Z. B. Masaryk, the president Of
hO-SlovalIia, has resigned, accord
ing to a report received here from Ber-
lin.
Prof. Thomas G. Masaryk was
elected president Of the CzechO-SlO-
yak government October 20, 1918,
while he was in the United States. He
was inaugurated president at Prague,
December %.
Release BoIshevik Agent.
Karl Radek, the leading Russian boil
shevik agent in Germany, who was ar
rested on February Is, in connection
with the Spartacan uprising, has been
released by the German government,
according to a Berlin dispatch.
This message reports fresh agitation
by the German Spartacans coincident
with the Hungarian revolution and re-
ports that in these circumstances the
release of Radek has created a bad i'm
preston.
The authorities, the dispatch adds,
say that Radek entered Germany in a
perfectly regular manner and that they
have no reason for keeping him under
arrest
Some results OF the new Spartacan
agitation reported are a serious strike
in Lubbock, riots IN Stettin and the
threat Of a general strike in Breslau.
At the first meeting Of the new Hun
garian government in Budapest Sun
day, a dispatch from Berlin says, &
soldiers and w0rkmen's council for en-
tire Hungary was appointed, according
to plans entered into with the agents
Of Lenine. The council Immediately
started preparation of a bill for the
specialization of all industrial activf-
ties.
Links Moscow and Budapest.
Reports of Wirless 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 proleta-
riat."
In greeting the Russian proletariat
the new Hungarian government eX-
pressed solidarity with the revolution
airy movement.
In his reply, Lenine stated that he
had submitted the Hungarian greeting
to the bolsheviki congress at Moscow,
which had received it with great en-
thusiasm. He added:
'In order to communicate between
Moscow and Budapest and repoIC on
the military situation, it is necessary
to maintain permanent wireless COM
munication between the two cities. "
He concluded by extending "commun-
ist greetings and handshake."
The communists of Vienna held d
meeting of sympathy with the prOle-
tariat dictatorship in Hungary Sunday
morning, according to a Vienna dis
patch. The demonstration developed
into a manifestation against the en-
tente There was no disturbance how
ever, the message declares.
Send Monitors to Budapest.
Paris March 25.-The peace confer
ence has been advised by entente
agents of the critical situation in Hun
gary. Some street fighting in Buda-
pest has been reported.
While the lives of entente nationals
are said still to be safe it is urged that
| they need the protection which would