The Cordova daily times., 1919-06-17
REIGN TERROR
 IN HUNGARY BY S0VIETS

ence of the Associated Press).-What may be the last days of the Red" Soviet republic here are fraught with such terror, hunger, mental misery, up roofing of family ties, heartbreaking partings, fights. arrests and legal loot ings that the majority of Hungarians are praying that such days may never come again. They live like people caught in a burning house with the firemen spirting benzine on the only escape ladder.
 One way out may possibly be pro- vided by the Czech aand Rumanian armies, who, though national enemies of the Magyars, are now hailed as saviors, The atmosphere is charged with fears and alarms, worse than those felt on any battle front. A con taeious fear like that which prevails when an army is in rout is spreading even to foreigners whose persons are comparatively safe from arrest owing to the wishes of Bella Kun, the Com munist leader, and other ministers to save themselves from the gallows when the grand collapse comes.
 When fathers and sons flee the country to evade arrest or to join the counter-revolutionis their wives and mothers whisper at the parting: Let us hone we may meet in happier times"
 When the correspondent of The As sociated Press has had occasion to explain his nationality the listener, whether Red guard peasant, or civil ian, has remarked with envy: "What a fortunate man you are, to be an American"
 He would invariably ask whether it would be possible to reach America and whether foreigners, former ene- mics, would be permitted to land on her shores. Peasants, who refuse to furnish food to Budapest or other cities because they are hostile to con- munism and want shoes and clothes more than paper money, of which they have plenty, gladly enough sold meals and supplies to the correspondent on the strength of his nationality.
 The city of Budapest which a few weeks ago had plentiful supply of eggs-people almost lived upon them end potatoes-is now without eggs, because of the obstinacy of the peas ants. A great many of the stores have been closed for lack of goods to sell or because they have been requisition- ed by the Soviet.
 The most saddening impression the visitor receives is that of country in dissolution, being stripped day by day, mercilessly and inexorably, of it's riches, to benefit nobody. The rela- lively pleasant, orderly and bountiful life that existed in Hungary few months ago, when it's neighbor Austria was starving, is gone for many years to come.
 "If anyone wants to be convinced of the futility of re-making the world in a single day with pet theories, he should now visit Hungary was the remark made by an American naval officer. It is estimated that half a million of Hungary's best citizens have been obliged to flee from their homes and wander across the frontiers to strange lands.
 There are many stories of their at tempts to save their lives and prop erty some of which read like Arabian Nights tales. It is calculated that some ,O0O,000,O0O kronen worth of bonds, gold coin, jewelry, plate, paint ings and work of art have been saved from the clutches of the Red guards and smuggled across the frontiers by blockade runners, afoot, on bicycles, autos or peasant carts. Within few weeks, there has grown up a system