The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-03-25
ANXIETY OVER
81 UAT1ON IN
HUNGARY GREAT
HITCHCOCK SEES
THE SILVER LINING
Declares Effect viii Be to
Hasten Work of Paris
Peace Conference.

WASHINGTON. March 2i.--Advices
TO the state department today from
three widely separated European sources
Tended to increase the anxiety or OH
rials over the situation in Hungary.
Holshevik clements apparently had as
sumed complete control OF the govern
nent at Budapest with threat OF re-
newal of hositlities.
There was no indication as to the eS-
tent Of the control OF the new regime
beyond the capital and in the absence
81 this and other details officials were
reluctant to discuss the situation at
length 1t appeared from todaTS ao-
vices that the crisis rcSultsS from the
line Of demarkatior established BY the
peace conference in circumscriblng the
territory Of Hungary and the general
situation in Budapest.
The recognition of the extreme claims
cf the Rumanians and CZecho- -Slovaks
and the establishment of neutral zones
between these lines and the limits al
lowed 20 Hungary which zones were to
~ held by the French until the final
peace treaty was cor7ietcd. was said
@ have been more thar the old HuaGa-
ran government was able to accept and
remain n power. II was suggested that
:he fact that these lines were not to be
he final limitations OF the now Hun
sarian state was not appreciated by the
Hungarians. who apparently proceeded
Upon the theory that they Were 10 lose
even the neutral zone occupied by the
french.
Foreigners Safe.
The safety Of foreigners was a fca-
.ure Of the news that appeared cheering
% state department officials. y number
4 Americans are in what was formerly
Susrtia-Hungary On various missions
FOR the peace conference and the inter-
allied food commission. but most Of them
are in Vienna.
Senator Hitchcock. chairman Of the
senate foreign relations committee. in
a statement referred to the situation in
Hungary and said he believed it would
DO much to wipe out differences be-
tween the nations represented at the
peace conference and would aid in bring
ing about final adoption Of the League
Of Nations plan.
State department officials who are
familiar with conditions heretofore eH-
iSting In, Hungary were surprised by the
raptdity with which BolsheviSIn swept
into control in Buda pest. and were in
clined to doubt that it had succeeded in
reaching out Of the cities TO include tho
peasant agricultural class. The peas
ants were said to have been we'll satis-
fed with their treatment under the land
,wning class. and consequently would
not be a fertile field for the propaea-
tion Of Bolshevik theories. One official
suggested that the inclusion of peasants s
in the new government. called the rev
nlutionary government Of workers. peas
ants and soldiers councils instead of
rs in Russia, tho government Of the
workers and coldiers councils" might
he an attempt to persuade tho peasants
TO joint the movement.
To Begin EoottHties
Today's advices came from Belgrade,
Herne and Copenhagen and related to
iifferent features Of the movement.
Each. however. referred 70 the revolu-
ion as an accomplished fact. The Serb
an adviccs declared that the new Mag
var government had announced that nos
iilities would begin last Friday night,
hut they did not state against whom the
hostilities were ordered or whether they
mad actually begun. The Bernc dis
patches threw some light on the per-
sonnel of the new government.
The appointment cf Belakun as min
istcr Of foreign affairs was particularly
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