Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-03-28
HUNGARY Joins
RUSSIA IN WAR
ON The ALLIES
Proclains State of Hostility;
Great Army of Reds Ready
for Battle.
COUNTRY IS UNDER SIEGE
Several Regiments Of czecho-Slovaks,
inspired by 5oIshevist Propaganda,
Have Mutinled and Gone over
to the Reds.

Vienna, March 24.-T,ie Hungarian
government is reported to have signed
proclamation acknowledging a
state of war between Hungary and the
entente powers"
The Karolyi cabinet, according to
latest word from Budapest, has been
succeeded by a new coalition govern
ment which is joining hands with the
Russian troops reported to be march
ing into Hungary.
The entire country has been placed
under a state of siege.
All Hungary has turned bolshevist.
Communists and extreme socialists
dominate the new regime.
"Red" Army Ready.
A great Russian bolshevist army is
reported to be ready between Brody
and Stanislau.
Several regiments of Czeeho-Sloyaks.
inspired by bolshevist propaganda,
have mutinied and gone over to the
reds. They are now in Hungary.
There is danger, according to dis
patches, of the red wave spreading
through the ranks of the Czecho-Slo-
yak army in the south, owing TO ex-
tensive agitsif= carried on for
months by Ienine and his iieutcnants.
XaroIy Stirs Masses.
Count Michael Karolyi, before re-
signing as premier, which Office he has
held ever since the overthrow of the
Hapsburg monarchy, issued a procla
nation urging q world war of the
proletarfat for Justice" and pleading
for support of the Hungarian masses
against the decision of the Paris peace
congress to occupy Hungary.
Soviets Pick Chief.
Copenhagen, March 24.-Alexander
Gorbai has assumed the presidency of
the Hungary revolutionary govern
ment of workers, peasants and sol
diers' councils, with Bella Kun as for
eign commissary and Joseph Pogany
as war commlssary, according to Buda-
pest dispatches.
II is reported that Kun has applied
10 Lenine for armed assistance against
the allied armes, which have occupied
the greater part of Hungary for the
purpose of putting down the bolshe-
vik uprising.
The formation of the new Hungari-
an soviet government followed the res
ignation of the Karolyi cabinet Friday
as a result of the new boundaries be-
tween Hungary and Roumania fixed at
Paris.
Rioting Begins.
Rloting throughout Hungary has ac-
companied the change in government,
according to reports reaching here
Tia Budapest, which has not as yet
been occupied by the allied forces,
mobs Saturday stormed the post office
and other public buildings and de-
stroyed the monuments erected to Hon.
we'd heroes.
All Power Is Taken.
A dispatch from Budapest gives the
proclamation of the new Hungarian
government as follows:
'The proletariat of Hungary from
today has taken all power in its own
hands. BY the decision of the Paris
conference to occupy Hungary the pro-
visioning of revolutionary Hungary be-
comes utterly impossible.
"Under these circumstances the sole
means open for the Hungarian gov
eminent is dictatorship of the pro-
letariat.
Seize All Big Estates.
Legislative, executive and judicial
authority viii be exercised by a dicta-
torship of the workers, peasants and
soldiers councils.
"The revolutionary government
council will begin forthwith work for
the realization of communist socialism.
"The council DEGREES the socializa-
ton of large estates. mines. big indus
tries, banks and transport lines, de-
clares complete solidarity with the
Russian soviet government, and offers
10 contract an armed alliance with the
proletariat of Russia"
appeal to People,
The proclamation by Count Kar0Ivi
announcing the resignation OF the
Hungarian cabinet. of which he was
the head. after referring to the deci-
sion of the peace conference at Paris
10 occupy Hungarian territory. says.
according TO a dispatch from Vienna:
''The entente mission declared that
il intends to regard the demarcation
line as the political frontier. The aim
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