Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-27
BUDAPEST STILL WEARS
RED MAY DAY COLOR|Nc
Bella Kun Holds Sway From Soviet
Headquarters, Watched by
Bodyguard.
3 PROPAGANDA BEING USED
Feverish Activity to Win Converts
to Communism by Stirring Up
{. Trouble in Roumania-''Ncm en-,
Mem, Sofia" Is National Slogan.


ranged for the May Day celebrations:
The communists have hoisted the red
SsnnsT on the 'ss s Kn neh ,n is 'hS
chief OF the Soviet. Red bunting also
waves from the Hotel Hungaria. where
the food is boarded and where the
ministers have seQucstcred themselves
with = bodyguard OF red soldiers. II
is there where ii is affirmed they keep
their most priced hostages in durance
vile.
A brave show is still made Of keep
n ing up the government, with much
+, dashing to and fro of ministerial au
tomobiles. There have been more ar
rests since the counter rcvoiutionists
s sue, in bGwns up big NUM- nns
The cost of painting the city red"
for the May Day cele brations was at
first estimated al 100000 crowns. but
today the supplementary information
is forthcoming that the material used
in such profusion WAS only paper war
S c,Sa. wh;sh proved failure n for
and hung up, as II came cheaper than
paint.
converts to communism by stirring up
trouble IN Roumania through revolu-
,!onary aEents, who handle enormous
country Wild efforts are being made
to secure adherents Printing presses
s{e S9Fk,nE ,urnns out Bo
~ course. they curse capitalism and
call upon all to become ''voros' or red
soldiers.
Slogan, "No, No, Never,
All bare walls, including church
declaration, Mem Mem soha" no. no
never) which is the slogan for the
refusal to abandon the national soil to
the Roumanian and the Czech.
The Press Bureau is also active II
10 sending out. reports signed with
to forged articles or else it rewrites
any copy submitted for censorship
Much ingenuity is shown in several
with comic pictures and jokes of the
proletariat at the expense of the hated
bourgeoisie One magazine, which
bears the name Of the month in which
rather an eS-landlord communing
with snail.
S Sass sun gotten thy house on thy
The magazine even dares to carica-
ture little Bella Kun with his thick
overhansinE lips, sometimes likened
The result of such propaganda is
questionable, Judging by the action of
sociated Press correspondent rode in
train. They lolled In their com
Portable seats; while a humble woman,
With a newborn baby in her arms.
hours. These three men were all the
time dcvourinE Bolshevist literature.
but 1t never occurred TO their humani-
~tarianism 20 give up seat to the
tired woman. They evidently knew
adversely. but il had not taught them
charity.
Guards Often Plain Thieves.
All this propaganda work gives en-
sons. and there are special training
schools for apt candidates. Recently
group OF young men speaking sew
eral languages went TO the foreign Of
fee to seek employment. and thew
were told that the only work that was
open was TO act locally as spies or
and carry on propaganda work there
This is In contradiction TO the prom
ise made by the ministers TO the
tempt 70 disseminate their ideas
home.
Among the original converts who
have been converted back again are
the men o. the ironworkers union
who have formed secret vuari II
$4,000 members TO protect Budapest
If a massacre OF the bourseosie be
attempted.
Two women Of American origin,
Marcella Lind Jellinek. a singer and
Mrs. lsidore C. Shasta formerly Mary
family. have filled their houses with
homeless friends so as 10 escape the
commanding" OF their apartments.
SOotN -hPp'HS Vu!le li!esi
After he left, his pekso nal CLOTHES and
the family linen Was-~eq1is!t!oned 10
the last stitch despite the protests OF
his daughters, who had remained be-
hind with German roverness When
= the latter made complaint to tho
local red guard commissioner. ne denied
any responsibility for the requ!sition.
T. In many cases red guards are just
plain thieves-they enter houses and
take what they fancy. and the Soviet
lis unable 70 control the lusts and
passions which its propag anda has
that there are many decent fellows
among the red guards. whose renuta
= ton must suffer from the black sheep.