The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-03-25
DENY REPORTED
FRENCH MUTINY
Copenhagen Official State-
ment Denies Rumored
Disarmament.
ALLIED ENJOYS DETAINED
Budapest Hermeticalsy Sealed
Against Foreigner Street
Scenes Lively.

copenhagen, Marcn 1o.--An oiicNi
statement from Budapest dated Mem
day. March "a, declared that reports
from the provinces showed peace and
order were prevailing.
I'm most of the large towns the
socialists have taken owe he adj
ministration,'' the state 1t con-
tinues. "a peasants q I'll has
been formed at Kecksemef d a rev.
olutionary government SAs been
formed at Kassa. which = been oc-
cupied by the Czechs, )rding to
the government comm rvs tele-
phone message"
The reported volunti surrender
of arms by French solk-S in Budt-
pest because the mefs sre alleged
to be infected with bq. vism is IN
correct. the message - }.
There is rumor ts.s-- the entente
commission at Budapest has been de-
tained by the Hungarians. The CAPT
tai, it is added, has been hermit1caily
sealed by the government against
foreign countries.
Russians Disappointed Them.
The correspondent says the
rumored advance of Russian soviet
troops toward Hungary under Gen.
Georgy has no foundation. He adds
that the report received from NJ.
Tchitcherin, the bolshevik foreign
minister, on the military situation of
the Russian soviet government
greatly disappointed the Hungarian
government.
Describing the events preceding the
revolution, eyewitnesses Who have
reached from Budapest report That
the streets in the Hungarian capital
were very lively Friday afternoon,
There were large crowds on all
street corners and professions were
in progress. The shops were hastily
closed. When the tension was at its
! highest, heavily armed soldiers ap-
Feared and announced that Count
Karolyi has just retire'l as head of
the government.
"Won War, but Lost Peace"
Vienna, March 25.-(A. IA dis
patch Sunday to the Neue Freie
Prese says the British French miH-
sion at Budapest, consisting of 246
men. has been disarmed and that a
wireless message has been sent to
Nil OLAF Lenine, the Russian bolshc.
vik premier, announcing that the en-
tente missions have left budapest
The message added:
French troops, filtered by bolshe-
Wiki, have been disarmed by us. Mu-
tmies have occurred in some French
regiments.
aThe phrase the entente nations
won the war but lost the peace may
come true il they continue to trample
under foot and dismember the de-
fested nations" says the Neue Freie
Pressc.
II Paris Offers Violence.
The executive committee of the
Norkmen's councils of German Aus
tria, replying to the proclamation of
the Hungarian proletariat, says it,
too, is "of the opinion that after the
collapse of imperialism in Germany
and Austria Hungary the imperial
ist victors are our chief enemies. II
the Paris conference seeks to offer
violence to entire nations and viol-
ates the right of self determination,
it will meet with determined resist
ance from the workingmen.
Unfortunately your appeal to us
to follow your, example cannot be
complied with, for the entente has
cut off our supplies. We would
starve before the Russian soviets
could help us. We. therefore, are in
a worse position than you, as we
are completely dependent upon the
entente"
Debate as to Leaving.
Paris, March 25.-(A. P0-Unofii- =
cial reports from Budapest state that
allied missions there are debating the
advisability of leaving, and that the
disarmament of troops in the city is
being considered. Order prevails and
no injury has as yet been done for
eigners. American representatives
are being assufed protection and
may be asked to remain, it is said.
Martial law has been declared and
the death penalty has been prescribed
for armed resistance to the bolshe
wiki; for robbery and looting. A fine
of 5000 crowns has been fixed for
the sale alcoholic rquor and a fine
OF 10000 crowns for drinking it.
Two British monitors are reported
to have arrived at \ idapest, having
been under fire on { v ,,ay up the
Danube. Other Bri I'D French
vessels are near at ar A British
patrol boat was seized D, the au-
thorities. but was returned with
apologies by the government
1t is said rumors that Hungary has
declared war on Rumania I Czecho-
Slovakia and Jugo- -Slavia are ex-
treniely doubtful. Six hundred Hun
garlans who have been prisoners of
war in Russia are said to be return
ing daily across the Carpathians,
being under the influence of bolshcvll
doctrines