Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-04-02
HUNGARY DECLARES
WAR ON ENTENTE;
JOINS RUSSIANS
Great Army of Reds Said to Be
Ready for Battle.
LARGE ESTATES ARE SEIZED
Reports Say Several Regiments of
czecho-Slovaks, inspired by Boil
sheVist Propaganda, Have Mu-
tinted and Joined the Reds.


Vienna, March 24-The Hungarian
government is reported to have signed
a proclamation acknowledging a
state of war between Hungary and the
entente powers"
The Karolyl cabinet, according to
latest word from Budapest, has been
succeeded by 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 Czecho-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 Czeeho- Slo-
yak army in the south, owing to ex-
tensive agitation carried on for
months by Lenine and his lieutenants.
karoyi stirs Masses.
Count Michael Karolyi, before re-
signing as premier, which Office he has
held ever since the overthrow of the
Hapsburg monarchy, issued procla-
nation urging a "world war of the
proletariat 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
metn Of workers. peasants and sol
diers' councils, with Bella Kun as for
elgn commissary and Joseph Pogany
rs war commissary, according to Buda-
pest dispatches
II is reported that Kun has applied
to Lenine for armed assistance against
the allied armies. which have occupied
the greater part of Hungary for the
purpose Of putting down the bolshe-
vlk uprising,
The formation Of the new Hungarl-
an soviet government followed the res
lgnatlon Of the Ka-olyi cabinet Friday
as a result of the new boundaries be-
tween Hungary and Roumania fixed ut
Paris.
Riotinu Begins.
Rioting throughout Hungary has ac-
c0mpanled the change In government,
according to reports reaching here.
In 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.
Al 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 it's own
hands. Iiy 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 will be exercised by n dlcta.
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 socialism
ton of large estates, mines. big indus.
tries, banks and transport lines, de.
clares complete solidarity with the
Russian soviet government. and offers
20 contract an rrmed alliance with tn,
proletarlat of Russia"
Appeal to People"
Inc proclamation by Count Earoly
announcing the resignation of tn,
Hungarian cabinet. Of when he wa,
the head, after referring 20 the deci
sion of the peace conference at Paris
to occupy Hungarian territory, saws
according 10 a dispatch from Vienna
THE entente mission declared that
il intends to regard the demarcatior
line as the political frontier The ain
of further occupation of the countr,
IS manifretly to make Hungary IN,
iumping-oft ground and the region q
operations against the Russian Soyie
army which is fighting on our frontier
The hnd evacuated by US, however. l.
To be the pay of the Czech troops b,
means of whom the Russian soyie
army is 10 be overcome.
As provisional president of tn
Hungarian peoples republic, turn
as against the Paris peace conference
10 the proletgriat of the world 70
justice and support"
Calls All Neighbors.
Paris. March 24.-The proclamation