The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-27
HUNGARY SEES
FRONTIER GAINS
Reported Assurance Of Allies
for Neutral Zone Has Re-
lieved Tension.
KAROLYI'S FATE IN DOUBT
Czecho-Slovaks Advancing on
Budapest From Raab,
Berlin Says.
KAROLYI'S FATE IN DOUBT

LONDON, March 26.-Despatches from
Hungary to-day continued to reflect
the seriousness of the situation there,
although some Of the reports indicated
that tension had relaxed slightly and
the possibility Of a clash between the
Soviet republic, reinforced by the Rus
sian Bolsheviki, appeared less probable.
The dispatches, coming from widely
separated sections of Europe, carried
many contradictions.
Perhaps the most hopeful OF the
days dispatches was one from Buda-
pest quoting the Hungarian Govern
ment to the effect that It had received
written communication from the
allied mission there that the line OF
demarcation laid down in an earlier
ultimatum should not be regarded as
the political frontier of Hungary. The
question Of frontiers was the pretext
for the overthrow of the Government
and the declaration OF Bolshevism and
alliance with the Soviets OF Russia.
Seek to Prevent CIashes.
The new decision, according to the
Budapest despatch. which comes
through Copenhagen, says that there
Will be established a neutral zone to
prevent collisions between the HunRa-
rlan and the Rumanian troops. These
. frequent clashes in the past also have
been source OF discomfort and also
are partly responsible for the over
throw Of the Hungarian Government.
Another dsspatch which gave cause
for optimism was one that ali the men,
bers Of the allied military missions.
with the exception of one American
officer. had left Budapest. This report
was forwarded from Copenhagen. quot
ing Vienna despatch to the Abcrdpost
in Berlin. ...
Cot Vix. head OF the French mission
| In Budapest, who was reported a pris-
oner In yesterdays dispatches has been
wounded and taken prisoner by the new
! Hungarian Government, according to a
despatch to Prague and transmitted to
London through Bern. Major Freeman
OF the British army has escaped, the
same despatch sayA
4
ton yesterday announced that Prof.
/ Philip Brown and Capt. Nicholas Roose-
welt. American members OF the Inter-
allied Mission IN Budapest, had sue
| ceeded in leaving the Hungarian capital
: in safety.l
The fate OF Count KarolyI, who re-
signed as president OF the Hungar ian
Government. is IN doubt. An uncon-
( hrmed rumor from Bern early in the
day said that he had been assassInated.
/ but a later despatch to the National
| 1idc,Lde Of Copenhagen said that he
had been arrested and would be brought
before the revolutionary tribunal for
trial.
! The cause for the arrest OF DR.. Alex
ander Wekerle, the former Premier OF
Hungary. was an attempt to introduce
, socialiIation measures IN a form enab-
ling him to dispose of his heavily mort
gagged estates on favorable terms, ac-
cordlng to a Budapest despatch TO the
Deutsche VoIksbldtt in Vienna.
Apparently Czecho- Sloyak troops are
marching on Budapest. a Berlin des-
patch asserting that communication be-
tween Budapest and Vienna had been
interrupted through the capture by the
Czecho-Slo of the town of Raab, on
the Danube about midway between the
two cities. Large Hungarian cannon
factories are situated in Raab.
Czechs Under Martial Inv.
A report from Pressburg. Hungary.
via Vienna, says that martial law has
been proclaimed throughout Czecho-
Slovakia as a result OF the uprising in
Hungary.
i Ths Vienna Reichspos; prints a des-
patch from Budapest that the Allied
troops, occupying Arad and Szegedin, on
tho Msros and Thiess rivers. respective
ly, had been withdrawn. At the same
time Copenhagen heard that the French
troops in Budapest had not been dis
armed as previously reported. This in.
formation was based on wireless from
the Hungarian capital, and quoted the
denial OF the early report by the com.
nlander OF the French forces.
The French Foreign Once. Paris ad.
viscs, has been informed that one OF the
first acts of the new Hungarian Govern.
ment was to release the Russian Red
Cross delegation which had been i'm
prisoned in Budapest because II had
been circulating Bolsheyik propaganda
A despatch from Pressburg announces
the arrival there OF a Czecho- Slovak mis-.
sion from Budapest. All the members OF
the mission were arrested on March 2I
and all their documents and money were
seized Finally they were allowed tc
leave the next day, but were searched al
the frontier. Naluables to the amount
of more than s?5o.ooo were taken from
them.
4 Budapest report coming through
Copenhagen, says that the Hungarian
National Council, on the motion Of ,ts
President. has been dissolved. The new
Hungarian Governments edict establish
ing revolutionary courts says that escf
must consist of Pres!den. and tive
members. while the prosecutor viii h>
appointed oy the Government, 1t ,s pro.
vlded that the death sentence must be
ny the unanimous decision OF the court
No appeals or request for mcrcy viii b,
. seru1'i:cl ava t'p cacrui'"u o. thr dept.
: sentence must bo caIT',ed out immedi
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