The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-24
BUDAPEST SETS
UP SOVIET RULE
Armed Alliance Effected With
Russian Reds, Whose Army.
Is Expected.
TO FIGHT "CONQUERORS"
Austrian and German Work
ers Invited to Oppose Paris
Peace Conference.
TO FIGHT "CONQUERORS"
Special Cable Despatch to The Sun from the
London Times Service.

Special Cable Despatch to TIE Sun from the
London Times Service.
Copyright. 1919; oil rights reserved.
VIENNA. March 23.-Hungary has
gone over to Bolshevism. In conse-
quence Of an Entente note delivered
by the head Of the Allied Military
Mission at Budapest, Count Karolyi
and the whole Hungarian Government
resigned and have been succeeded by
Bolshevist Cabinet which has pro-
claimed a dictatorship of the proleta-
riat. offered a military alliance with
the Russian Soviet Government and
called the whole Hungarian people to
aid in the establishment of Socialism
and freedom in the country.
According to a proclamation in the
NepSsdrd. Hungary Is constituted a
Soviet republic and forthwith the rev.
olutionary Government Council de.
crees the specialization of large prop.
critics, mines, big industries, banks
and commercial enterprises. Land re-
form is to be carried through not by
land partition, but by means OF social
istic production by trade unions.
Iron discipline is to be enforced and
death penalties are threatened against
all counter rovolutionaries.
Armies to He Organized.
Proletariat armies are TO be organized
against Hungarian capitalism and Largo
land owners and also against the Ru.
manian bojars and the Czech bourgeois
The proclamation sreets the workers OF
Great Britain. France. Italy and Amer
lea and appeals to the workers OF Bo-
hemia, Rumania, Serbia and Croatia to
fight the hojars land owners and mon.
archists and irnpiores tho workers in
German Austria and the German Empire
"to break definitely with Paris and ally
themselves with MOSCOW"
A noticeable feature of the situation Is
the constantly recurring argument that
the revolution was enforced by the En-
tente. President Gorba, at a Workers
Council meeting. referred with great re-
gret to his disappointment with the En-
tents, which he had supposed loved
democracy. Only when it was obvious
nothing but a dictated peace could be
hoped for from the west had they turned
TO the east to obtain what the west and
they denied. Erdlyi, the new Food Con-
troller in announcing that the new
Government had put itself under Russian
protection by means OF a.rplane carried
messages, asserted II was measures the
Entente had compelled Hungary to take.
Where Resentment Lies.
There is not the least doubt what
really precipitated the crisis has been
the further occupation of Hungary by
Czecho-Slovaks and Rumanians II is
noticeable in the manifesto above
quoted that the Czecho bourgeois and the
Rumanian boJars are expressly singled
out and though the Hungarians natur-
ally have no fear OF permanent occu-
patton by the British. French and Amer
lean troops. they probably In any case
would feel less resentment toward us
whom they regard as legitimate foes
than toward the two nations named.
1t Is certain that whatever their in
ternal differences may be. the Hunga-
rians of all parties are united in n fixed
determination 20 fight to the last for
the defense OF the fatherland. The
work OF reorganizing the new army has
been progressing steadily: thirty-six
pdttdIioilH are now completely organized
and equipped The effect OF these events
upon Vienna is naturally the greatest,
but hitherto nothing has occurred he
yond general expressions OF sympathy
for the Hungarians.
The fact that the blockade IL being
raised and food trains are now begin
ming to arrive more regularly may have
a tranquillizing effect. War Minister
Deutsch was confident yesterday Bol-
shevism is not gaining ground here.
That. however. was before that pubn-
cation of tse lungs, III crisis, Every
body now Ia seriously alarmed.