New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Counter Revolutionists
Disarm Bella kun's
Soviet Forces, Seize
Control of Capital
Proletariat Army
Is Being Recruited
Hunger Adds to Menace
and City's Greatest
Upbeaval Is Forecast

BERLIN, July 90 by The Associated
Press A new reign of terror exists
in Budapest, according to dispatch
from the Hungarian capital to the
"Tage and "Red terror" in its
worst form is anticipated.
The dispatch says so-called "terror
troops now are masters of the capi-
tai and that they have stormed the
garrison, disarmed the troops of the
Bella Kun government and distributed
arms to "the ragged proletariat
The leader Of the terror troops, =
who was Bella kuns personal guard
of honor, publishes an appeal for
volunteers, and the Peoples Commits
saries, Varga and Szamuely, and Vice
Commissary of Foreign Affairs Nose
salpary, the new leaders in control
have sent an ultmatum to Habrich, the
IN oderate' city commander of Buda-
pest, ordering him to give up office
and turn over the city to them.
Food Conditions Bad
The dispatch says the Council Of
Government is still convinced that the
Entente is too weak or unwilling for
armed Intervention. 1t says also that
the Red Army" of Bella Kun con-
tinues to disintegrate Food condi-
tions in Budapest are described as in
describable and money is declared to
be rapidly falling in value.
The correspondent has been enabled
to smuggle out of the Hungarian capi-
tai an excerpt of recent speech of
Bella Kun, the Soviet leader, before
the Executive Council of the Soviet
In the speech Bella Kun made the
sensational assertion that Hungary
was facing triple crisis-in power,
economies and morale The crisis in
power, he said, was evidenced by the
counter revolution; that in economics
in the unbelievable prices of food, and
that in morale in corruption, which
had reached such undreamed of limits
Wide Bribery Charged
All the officials in Hungary, accord
ing to Bella Kun, were susceptible to
bribery; they were making out passes
for persons to flee from Hungary,
charging for them from $4,000 to 30o,-
900 crowns (nominally $4,000 to $780,
000), and also were buying illicitly in
the provinces. Every one, he asserted,
was swindling and willing to take any
criminal steps to live we'll.
Other advices received here from
Budapest say that during the launch
ing Of the new Hungarian monitor
Marx on Friday, the last unit of the
Danube flotilla, the monitor Szamos,
which had remained loyal to Bella Kun,
fed down the Danube and surrendered
to the Serblans The officers and men
of the crew requested permission to
fight against the Hungarian Soviet gov
eminent, and the Serbian government
transported them to Szegedin, up the
Tsza River, southeast of Budapest,
where they were placed at the disposal
Of the Karolyi forces.
The dispatch adds that the Entente
apparently will not proceed against
Bella Kun, but that it has given per
mission to Karolyi. who has not re-
signed, as has been reported, to open
an offensive.
The Karolyi referred to in the above
dispatch probably is Count Jules
karolyi, a nephew Of Count Michael
karolyi, former Provisional President
Of Hungary. Last May Count Jules
was reported to have set up a govern
ment at Arad in opposition to the Boil
shcviki and to have issued a manifesto
declaring it to be his frst duty to re-
store law and order and then to trans
fer the administration to government
possessing the confidence Of all parties
Szcgcdin, where tho officers and crow
Of the monitor Szamos arc said to have
been transported, is about fifty miles
west Of Arad.