The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-27
PEACE EFFORTS
FACING PERILIN
HUGEREDDRIVE
Hungarian Army Crashes
Ru1lanians While Allies
Delay Action.
9 DIVISIONS IN ATTACK
BOisheviki Extend Activi-
ties and Menace Opera
tions in Siberia.
COUNCIL OF 5 UNDECIDED
In Meantime Lenine Is Active,
Convinced Entente Forces
Are Impotent.
COUNCIL OF s UNDECIDED
Bv a sta6 Correspondent Of TEE Sun.
Copri0ht. 1919; oil ri0hts reserUed.

By a Stag Correspondent OF TIE Sun.
Copyright, 1918; all rights rescrued.
PARIS. July 26.--Bolshevism. once
more militant and aggressive. threatens
to give a derisive aspect to the ef-
forts Of the Peace Conference to con-
clude its labors and restore peace
throughout Europe. Launching the
greatest Offensive it has undertaken
so far, the Hungarian army with nine
divisions, is rolling up the Ruman-
ians in three places, capturing vast
quantities of supplies and threaten
ing to erase Rumania from the map
unless the Allies move quickly to her
support.
This alarming feature of the situa-
ton confronted the Council of Five
ard its military advisers this morn
ing as a consequence of the indecision
Of the last few weeks in dealing with
the Hungarian Reds. But what gives
the Hungarian offensive. which has
Just begun, a sinister aspect is the
fact that It is accompanied by Bolshe-
vism OF one kind or another in many
parts Of Europe, all of which threaten
the labors Of the Peace Conference.
Whether these have been fomented
secretly by German influences is not
clear.
Regard Allies NJ Helpless.
Convinced of the military impotence
Of the Allies because Of the social con-
ditions within these nations and or
the opportunity to proceed vigorously
against them, Lenine and Bella Kun
are seeking with renewed activity TO
spread their poisonous doctrines
abroad, either by the sword or by re-
newed propaganda. A general survey
of the situation includes these fea-
lures:
1. The new Hungarian attack against
the Rumanians. undertaken on the
ground that the Rumanians have not
observed the armistice- It is believed
that the main objective Is junction of
the Hungarian and the Russian Reds.
2. The revolt OF the Croatisns against
the Serbians, inspired. according to the
most reliable sdvices this morning. by
the Hungarian Reds. which resulted in
tho proclamation Of an Independent
Croatian republic of the Soviet type and
may portend a serious division of the
new Jugo-Slav State, which scarcely
would displease the Italians. and may
complicate further the already tangled
Adriatio situation
g. Poisoning the minds. by revolution
ary propaganda, of the Russians cooper
eting with the Allies on the Archangel
front, which already has resulted In the
murder of British officers and involves
| the remaining troops of the Allies there
| In a situation as perilous as IL was last
! winter.
Urge Strikes I'm Europe.
4. The steady infiltration of Lenine's
agents into Switzerland for the purpose
OF influencing the meeting of interna-
/, tionai Socialists there to favor general
strikes throughout Europe for the pur-
pose of aiding the Russian Bolshevists.
| For two months these secret envoys, of
which Guilbeau. Lenine's agent, IL the
head. have been arriving In Switzerland
and communicating from there with the
heads Of the radical Socialists in other
| countries.
5. The flooding OF Finland with sim
liar agents to accomplish the defeat of
| Gen. Mannerheim In the Finnish cleo
ton and set UP a Soviet republic there.
| Against this widespread campaign the
\ Allies apparently have no programme,
even though some of the actions are In
open defiance OF orders issued from the
Peace Conference. Many appear to
doubt II amy plan can be evolved for
handling problems having 30 many
phases. For several weeks Gen. d'Es-
percy has begged the Peace Conference
to let him organize Rumanian-Czech-
| Slav offensive TO take Budapest.
The reason why consent has been re-
| fused so far TO this plan is that the AL
lies distrust Rumania. The curious re-
lation which Rumania now bears to the
| conference appears as a new factor in
| the problem. Rumania Is not repre- sented
here except by her Ambassador to Lon
don. With the departure of Premier Bra
tiano she practically retired from the
conference She has shown disposition
| not to follow the orders of the Allies.
THIS, combined, with the military spirit
she has been showing. has given rise to
the present distrust-
4 Budapest Looms as Problem.
! The Allies fear that with the Ruman-
| ians forming the chief part of the allied
army Rumania would insist upon oceu-
pying Budapest Marshal Foch told the
council there would be little difficulty in
taking Budapest and defeating Kun, but
again the question seems to be what the
Allies would do after they had captured
| the Hungarian capital
Another obstacle is the unwillingness
| of the Americans to promise any Amer
lean assistance in men or money; Gen,
Bliss told the council that this 10 out
OF the question unless Congress should
vote formally to do SO In q general anti
Bolshevik offensive which would involve
the return of troops TO Europe and the
appropriation of new funds. Americans
here do not believe that Congress would
accede to what is virtually request
from Europe that America assist her