The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-26
Time Is At Hand For Allied Ma
tiOns To Take Firm, Stand
Says State Department
Officials
PARIS REGARDS
SITUATION GRAVE
Slow Action At Peace Conference
Is Held Partially To Blame
For Hungarian and Egyp-
tiOn Unrest

Hungarian situation led state de-
partment officials today to express
the opinion that the Slime had
come for the allied nations, repre-
sentsd 1t Paris, to take definite,
firm stand against eoIshsvism. Lit
tie official news was received at
the department. today but Paris
dispatches indicated grave appre-
hension 10 felt there as we'll ~ in
Washington over the situation.
Representatives of the United States
in Vienna. reported food administra-
ton had one or two agents in Budapest
and it was stated there might be other
Americans there. These advices said
there is no i'll feeling towards ~ eri-
cans or British but strong hostility is
manifested against the French. This,
II is believed here, is due to the occu-
patton by French troops Of neutral
zones between Czecoslovakia and Hun
gary and Rumania and Hungary.
1t was sid by officials that IL the
Hungarians actually have declared war
upon the entente powers. as was
threatened in state department advices
made public yesterday, it would be q
natural move for Hungarians to at
tempt to reach the Adriatic and re-
cover . s,srtion OF the Austrian uaxY |
now in the hands or Jugoslavs.
Paris. March 25--A proclamation OF l
Hungarian revolutionists declares the |
action of the peace conference COM |
missions recommendations circling |
old Hungary with small new states 9 |
one of the chief causes of unrest. This !
while not yet approved by the con-
ference. doubtless reached Hungarian
leaders giving impetus to the over |
throw of the Karolyi government.
New Hungarian communistic gov |
ernment has arrested DIR. Alexander !
wokerle, former premier and finance !
minister. a Budapest dispatch says.
Copenhagen March 25.-The British !
commission at Spa has invited the |
German government to send a financial l
commission to Versailles. according to /
British advices. The commission will l
be limited to six persons who will
be allowed a speedy unimpeded inter- |
course with the British government.
Paris, March 25.-virtually all the
commissions and sub commissions of
the peace conference are waiting for /
from the supreme council
in order to Gloss and submit their re-
ports. 1t is said except for instruc-
tions on certain broad principles
which must come from the premiers,
reports are ready to be submitted
within a few hours after instructions
received.
London March 25.-Defending the
military service bill in the house of
commons today. Winston Spencer
Churchill. secretary for war. declared
the whole of Egypt is in a virtual
state of insurrection. The position
is SO dangerous, he added, the govern
Rnent hac to appeal to men about to
be dcmobilized to return and save
their comrades from being murdered.
Washington. March 25.-Gen. Sir
Frederick Maurice. former director of !,
British military operations who is here
on a lecture tour, declared today that ,
while he thought peace should be COM
pIeted speedily. he did not believe ex-
tensive military operations would re-
suit from the Bolshevik movement in |
and elsewhere. Europe, he
said. is so exhausted that a war of
within the next ten years !
is impossible.
The Hungarian situation. in the opir- {
ion of General Maurice, is "a move q
ment of despair dictated by hunger h
at present and uncertainty for the t
future" =
There must be stable and power q
full government established in Ger q
many" he said, "else' the terms we will !.
be able TO get in the settlement of peace !.
will not be worth having. II
And there is grave danger that Ger
many will lapse into Bolshevism if :
decision is much longer delayed. Hun
gary has yielded to the menace and
Germany may follow her example il
me present conditions of uncertainty
continue But a vast majority Of the
German people believe in sound gov
srment and at present the Spartican
menace Is not very dangerous, al a
though undoubtedly it is there. la
must confess 1 am keenly dis P
appoih.eo 20 nnd SO little progress G,
General Maurice also stated he was r,
surprised 10 ma SO much American s
opposition to the league of nations. Lib
which ne believed would be amended h
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