The sun., 1919-09-02
RUMANIA WILL
QUIT BUDAPEST
Decision to Withdraw at Once
Seen as Move to Gain
Prestige.
NEW REVOLT EXPECTED
Premier Believed to Be Agent
of Archduke = Situation
Worries Paris.
NEW REVOLT EXPECTED
BY LAURENCE HILLS.
Star Correspondent Of TIE Bun.

Copyright, 1919. all rights reserred.
PARIS, Sept. From advices the
American mission has received there
is no doubt now that the Rumanians
are about to change their plans and
withdraw entirely from Budapest,
leaving the city entirely at the mercy
of the Hungarian mobs. The only
thing holding up the Rumanian with
drawal is a broken railway bridge.
but this is to be repaired Immediately.
The motive behind this move, as
seen here, is the desire Of the Ruman-
iGns to vindicate their action in oc.
cupying Budapest and to place the
responsibility for what may happen
when they leave on the Americans and
British, both Of whom have opposed
their policy.
1t is ey.Ient that the Rumanian plan
to withdraw Immediately before the
Council had time to make any plans
for such conspiracy is causing great
concern here; but there is not much
likelihood of the Rumanians being
asked to delay their withdrawal plans.
At the same time it was admitted that
the situation, so far as the Hungarian
| capital was concerned, was very un-
pleasant to contemplate.
Should the Bolshevists return to power
through an uprising the responsibility
would be placed by France and other
friends of Rumania squarely on the
shoulders OF the Americans However,
since the Rumspians have been in Buda-
pest the Americans have not asked that
they withdraw until the Allied commits
sion should report that order could be
maintained there without them. What
will happen now nobody knows, as the
Allies have not sufficient forces to main
tain order there.
In the meantime the council has not
| received an answer to the note sent to
Rumania asking what supplies they
! would have to requisition, but this is at
tributed to bad communications
To many observers here. 1t appears
that the Rumanians are playing a clever
game aimed at discrediting the confer
ence and advancing their own prestige
without coming into open defiance,
knowing they have the sympathy of
powerful French elements.
Their withdrawal will put it up to
the new Friedrich Government, which is
believed to be a camoufiage for the Arch
duke, to maintain itself. In the mean
time Friedrich formally has asked the
Council to order the Allied commission
not to interfere in the interior political
situation, or with his new Government
which he admits hasn't satisfied the AL
! lied generals He has asked the Council
TO send a delegation to Hungary to su-
pervise the elections which he has prom
| ised to hold in three or four weeks.
| This matter has not yet been decided
by the council. which is desirous not TO
take any action which could be con-
strued as recognition Of Friedrich, but at
the same time is anxious to interfere in
the political situation. Friedrich re-
mains under deep suspicion OF being
merely the agent of the Archduke, and
the Rumanisn withdrawal may be part
of the plan whereby the Archduke and
| Friedrich expect TO show they can main
tain order unassisted and thereby get
| greater support. The refusal of the So
cialists to help shows that revolution is
easily a possibility.