Arizona republican., 1919-04-08
HUNGARY TURNS DOWN PROPOSAL
 OF THE ALLIES

BASEL, April 7.-(Havas)-No con firmation has been received here of the reports of counter revolution in Hun gary and the assassination of the for eign miniscter Bella Kun. The Frank fort Natchrichten says however, that changes in the Hungarian cabinet are imminent.
 BUDAPEST, Sunday, April 6.-(By The Associated Press)-General Jan Christian Shuts, the peace conference representative to Hungary placed his proposals before the Hungarian com munist government Saturday. This in- cluded the following:
 The Hungarian government to with draw all troops west of a line which General Shuts outlined, that Ruman- ian troops be ordered not to advance 1 beyond their present positions and that the territory between the line drawn by General Shuts and the Rumanian army be neutral and be occupied by British French, Italian and, if possible, Amer ican troops.
 That the Hungarian government ac- cept the terms of the military conven- ton concluded last November 13, by the | Hungarian government with the allied | powers; that the aforementioned line of demarcation has nb influence on the territorial arrangements in the final peace conditions and that General Shuts will propose to the peace con- ] ference to raise the blockade of Hun gary immediately and allow facilities l for the immediate import of prime ne- cessities, especially fats and coal. | General Shuts also suggested that he would propose to the peace conference that before it finally determined the l political frontiers Of Hungary it should invite the Hungarian government to send representatives to Paris. Those representatives would formulate their standpoint on the frontiers and the 1 questions arising from them in a spe- cial conference with representatives of the Czecho- -Slovaks, Jugo- -t5lavs, Ru- manians and German Austrians A rep resentative of the allied powers would
 be chairman of the special conference
 The government replied to Genera
 Shuts. thanking him for his civility
 but declaring that the conditions pre- sented were unacceptable except as ar order to those who might be inclined tc assume the government of the countrS
 on such terms.
 Hungary Wants Own Terms
 But" the governments reply added
 relying on the good will displayed ir
 such an accustomed manner by you, ".
 beg you to interpret the following pro l, posals to the entente powers: First, the soviet government also il 7 disposed to create a neutral zone. bu
 solely on the condition that the iron
 tier thereof is shifted eastward to th, , Mares Line and that the soviet reprb lie shall administer without interfer ence in the territory occupied by th allied troops, thus allowing the sovie republic to be e-established in Szepe
 din and Arad.
 ! There shall be free intercourse iron the neutral zone both in the direction
 of Hungary and Rumania and fre
 transit in the Transylvanian territor-
 occupied by Rumania.
 Second, at the same time we recues l the complete raising of the blockad and the supplying of the republic wit coal and fats.
 "Third. we request that the propose 5 conference should include representa-
 tive of the Hungarian soviet republi, ? Bohemia, Rumania, Serbia, Jugo- -Sla
 Eia and German Austria and that
 meet at the earliest moment possibl
 at Prague or Vienna, so as to procee simultaneously with the peace con
 ference.
 n Fourth, we request an exchange ( n economic representatives between Hun
 gary and foreign states:
 g Fifth, we request the entente DOW c CTS immediately to cease the barbarou n prosecutions to which every labc
 movement in the occupied regions
 subjected'
 7 The document is signed by Premie IGarbai. and Enraign Ministar Pola IC,,,