Bisbee daily review., 1919-04-08
SHUTS FIAT
IS REJECTED
BY HUNGARY
Allies Told Neutral Zone Pro-
posals Unacceptable to Sow
let Government Leaders
Communists Offer Counter
Project; Demand Right to
Govern Occupied Territory

BUDAPEST, Sunday, April 6-(By
the Associated Press. General Jan
Christian SHUTS. the peace conference
representative to Hungary, placed his
proposal before the Hungarian COM
munist government Saturday. This in
cluded the following:
''The Hungarian government to
withdraw all troops west of a line
which General SHUTS outlined; that
Rumanian troops be ordered not to ad-
vance beyond their present positions
and that the territory between the line
drawn by General SHUTS and the Ru-
manian army be neutral and be oc-
cupied by British, French, Italian ano
if possible, American troops.
'That the Hungarian government
accept the terms of the military con-
vention concluded last November 13,
by the Hungarian government with
the allied powers; that the afore-
mentioned line of demarcation has no
influence on the territorial arrange
ments in the final peace conditions
and that General Smuts will propose
to the peace conference to raise the
blockade of Hungary Immediately and
allow facilities for the immediate i'm
port of prime necessities, especially
fats and coal"
Frontiers Discussed
General Smuts also suggested that
he would propose to the peace confer
ence that before it finally determined
the political frontiers of Hungary it
should invite the Hungarian govern
ment to send representatives to Paris.
These representative would formu-
late their standpoint on the frontiers
and the questions arising from them
in a special conference with represen-
tatives of the Czecho-Slovaks, Jugo-
Slavs, Rumanians and German Austri-
ans. A representative OF the allied
powers would be chairman of the spe-
cial conference.
The government replied to General
Smuts, thanking him for his civility
but declaring that the conditions pre-
sented were unacceptable, except as
an order to those who might be IN
clined to assume the government of
the country effective under such
terms.
But" the, governments reply add
ed. relying onithe good will displayed
in such an unaccustomed manner by
YOU, we beg you to interpret the fol
lowing proposals to the entente pow
ers: ,
SoViet's Stand
First, the soviet government also
is disposed to create neutral zone,
hit solely on the condition that the
frontier thereof is shifted eastward to
the Maros line and that the soviet re-
public shall administer without inter-
ference in the territory occupied by
the allied troops, thus allowing the
soviet republic to be re-established in
Szegedin and Arad. There shall be
free intercourse from the neutral zone
both in the direction of Hungary and
Rumania and free transit in the Tran
sylvanian territory occupied by Ru-
mania.
Second, at the same time we re-
quest the complete raising OF the
blockade and the supplying OF the re-
public with coal and fats.
Third, we request that the pro-
posed conference should include rep
resentatives OF the Hungarian soviet
republic, Bohemia, Rumania, Serbia,
Jugo-Slavia and German Austria and
that it meet at the earliest moment
possible at Prague or Vienna, so as to
proceed simultaneously with the peace
conference.