The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-03
t8 HOUR LIMIT IS GIVEN
Evacuation of Bessarabia
Demanded as Ferdinand
Advances on Budapest.
KING IS 80 MILES AWAY
Bella Kun's Communist Gov
ernment Is Hard Pressed
on Various Sides.

LONDON. May 2.-The Russian Boil
shevik Government, in an effort to
extend physical aid to the tottering.
or defunct. Communist Government
in Hungary. has sent an ultimatum
TO Rumania, demanding the evacua-
ton OF Bessarabia. This informa-
tion Is contained in a wireless des-
patch from Moscow, which saws that
torty-eight hours have been given the
Rumanian Government to answer.
Previous to the receipt OF the Mos
COW wireless despatch news came
from Vienna that King Ferdinand of
Rumania was about to enter Buda-
pest at the head OF his troops. This
information was based on news fur
nished the Nerc Freie Pressc of
Vienna from Bucharest. DISPATCHES
yesterday said that the Ruma nian
troops were within eighty-two miles
OF Budapest on the southeast and
were pressing their advance. Other
dispatches Of that day from Vienna.
via Berlin. said that the heads of the
Soviet Government IN Hungary had
fed to Vienna, where they had ar
rived with their families.
Bella Kun in Desperate situation,
Military observers here and others
following the trend Of affairs In Hungary
say that the Communist Government
there has been hard presssd both from
within BY the peasants and other classes
who have been lukewarm IL not openly
hostile to the rule established by Bella
Kun and his aids, financed by Nikolai
Lenine. the Bolshevik premier Of Russia.
and Jugo-slav armies.
So desperate has the situation become
for Bella Kun that he offered territorial
concessions to the Rumanans to cease
lighting. Based on the dispatches to-
day. the Rumanian have not stopped 10
consider these offers but have pressed
forward toward Budapest. The offer Of
territorial concessions also was made
to the Juso-Slav and the Czecho-Slav
Governments. In his offer, Bella Kun.
acting as the Foreign Minister Of the
Hungarian Communist Government, said
that he and his colleagues recognized
unreservedly the claims which you put
forward" The offer asked for the i'm
mediate cessation OF hostilities nom
interference with Hungarian internal ar-
fairs and the reaching OF economic gre
ments.
Formerly a Russian Province.
Bessarabaia is a former Russian prov
ince, populated mostly by Rumanians, to
which Rumania has laid claim. In the
retirement of the Germans, following the
signing OF the armistice, Rumanian
troops occupied the country. The Rus
sian Soviet Government several times
has attempted to form a physical con-
Government. but has failed. Evacuation
of Bessarabia by the Rumanians would
simplify the task
Fou ror five weeks ago Russian Boil
shevik troops. after fighting their way
through the Ukraine. reached he
Dniester River, the eastern border OF
Bessarabia, A Bolshevik official state
ment, under the date OF April -. re-
ported that the Rumanans had been
defeated in the hghting along the
Dnester and were retiring from B-s-
sarsbia. The Rumanian Government
Immediately denied that its troops were
evacuating the province.
Reuters Paris correspondent in a des.
patch says the Polish National Commit
tee announces that a convention has
been concluded between the Ukrainians
and the Russian Boisheviki under which
| $4,000 Bolsheviki troops are marching
on Hungary.
The words marching on" Hungary in
| the above despa-ch are somewhat con-
tusing. 1t would SEEM more likely that
the Russian Bosheviki troops would be
going "to" Hungary, there TO lend a
| hand to the Hungarians in repulslng
| the Rumanians, who are fast invading
the country. Recently Lenine. the Rus
sian Bolsheviki Premier and Bela Kun,
the Hungarian Soviet Foreign Minister,
rave exchanged frequent friendly wire
! less communications.