The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-24

LY STATE JOURNAL
seriousness of the situation and occupy
Budapest with entente troops. He
says the only way to save the situa-
ton is to send American or British
forces there, but adds:
"Where a battalion would have
sufficed formerly, brigade would be
necessary now"
Disarm Entente Troops.
(By the Associated PressJ
Berlin, March ga special dis
patch to the Feiheit announces the
disarmament OF entente troops at
Budapest. 1t is unconfirmed, how
ever. and appears questionable. =
Like When Napoleon Returned.
Paris, March 24.-"The situation is
as serious as that which arose when
the congress of Vienna learned of Ma
poleon's return from Elba.
To-day, as a hundred years ago,
negotiators have provoked and have
been surprised by destiny" writes st.
Brice in the Journal. THE problem
before the council of ten todays is not
the fate of the German cables or the
Teschen commission but the fmpera-
tive necessity of having Poland and
Rumania rebuild the water-tight
compartment which has collapsed" he
continues.
OTHERWISE, Germany, declaring
herself alone in a position to save
western civilization, will lay down her
peace terms instead of those the al
| threaten to take the lead in the Boil
sheviki movement This extract
from an editorial accurately reflects
the views of the foreign editors of
press reserve as to how far the move
| ment is or is not inspired by Germany
but they all generally agree in plac-
| ing the principal blame for the events
on the representation of the peace
conference and in insisting upon i'm
mediate steps to fight Bolshevism.
French Leaders Meet.
Premier Clemenceau had a long
conference with Stephen Pichon, the
foreign minister yesterday on the Hun
garian situation which will come be-
fore the supreme council at 10 o'clock
| this morning when immediate steps
will be taken according to Marcel HUI
tin of the Echo de Paris.
It is understood for one thing that
General Haller's Polish divisions would
| be shipped at once to Danzig and
landed whether the Germans like it or
| not, NJ. Hutin adds that certain pre-
| cautions have already been taken in
such an eventuality.
Two French divisions are at Buda-
pest and several Serbian divisions are
and it is believed that with the Ru-
| manians they are capable of meeting
| the situation.
Raymond Recounty. in the Figaro
states on the other hand that the di-
visions in question are of reduced
| strength, the Rumanians being abso-
| lutely without equipment. Such forces
as are scattered over hundreds of
kilometers from Banat to Odessa,
he says, are quite insufficient to cope
| with fha yuIoi oh =, inc
shows is about to take definite shape"
Ukrainians In, Too.
Vienna, March 24.-1t is learned
| from the Ukraine that negotiations
| have been begun between Ukraine and
Russian Bolsheviki delegates for the
| settlement of differences. Bolsheviki
Leader Radowsky has arrived at Tx
rainian headquarters, it is reported.
Peace Conference Whips Up.
Paris, March PA conference of
the premiers was called today to be
held at three o'clock this afternoon to
| arrange for the program of the SUI
preme council session an hour later
The news from Hungary and Poland
was expected to spur the heads of the
| governments to military decisions of
| first importance.
| Boundary Not the Cause.
Berlin. March 24.-Recent events at
| Budapest were not the result of the
entente note outlining the new boun-
Diary between Hungary and Rumania,
| according to the VoSsiSche Zeitung
which says that the situation there
was hopeless before the note was de-
| llvered. Communists were unem-
| ployed and have been ignored by the
Socialist ministers according to the
! newspapers. Mass demonstrations be-
gan last Wednesday when demands
were made that every employed per-
| son receive sum of five hi ndred
crowns for relief, besides payment of
| house rent and a reduction of food
| prices by one-half The newspaper
declares that the revolution was i'm
pending when the entente note arrived
and Count Michael Karolyi. the pre-
| mier. seized the opportunity in ibis
! farewell proclamation to represent
himself as a friend of the proletariat.
Against Other Peoples.
Basic, March 24.-In concluding its
| proclamation announcing the prole-
tariat dictatorship there, the new
| Hungarian government said:
THE CZecho-Slovak Bourgeois and
Rumanian eannexationist classes wish
| to overthrow the Hungarian workers
revolution by force of arms. We are
determined, however. to defend our
selves to the last drop of blood against
all attacks. With our determination
to defend the republic goes the wish
to conclude speedily a peace which
will assure means of existence for the
Hungarian working classes and make
| it possible for them to live at peace
with all the peoples of the world"
GeOrgey's Army Moving.
Basic, March 24.-General Geor-
gey, commanding an army of seventy
thousand Bolsheviks, was reported in a
Vienna dispatch today to have crossed
the Dneister river and entered Cali
| cha. His army, composed largely of
Hungarian and Bulgarian troops, cap
| tured by Russia during the war, is
said to be following the Lemberg-
| Budapest railway. Lemberg is only
sixty miles from the Russo Hungarian
| frontier. The Poles recently recap
! tured the city from the Ukrainians
| A dispatch from Budapest said the
! Czechs have begun to mobilize against
| the Hungarians.