Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-03-27
Great Army of Reds Said to Be
Ready for Battle.
LARGE ESTATES ARE SEIZED
Reports Say Several Regiments OF
czecho-Slovaks, inspired by Boil
shevist Propaganda, Have Mu-
tinted and Joined the Reds.


state Of war between Hungary and the
entente powers"
The Karolyi cabinet according TO
latest word from Budapest, has been
succeeded by new coalition govern
ment which is Joining hands with the
Russian troops reported 20 be march
Ing into Hungary,
The entire country has been placed
under a state OF siege.
All Hungary has turned bolsheyist.
Communists and extreme socialists
dominate the new regime.
"Red" Army Ready
A great Russian bosheviSt army Is
reported 10 be ready between Brody
and Stanlslau.
Several regiments OF Czecho Slovaks,
inspired by bolshevist propaganda,
have mutinled and gone over TO the
reds. They are now in Hungary.
There Is danger, according to dis
patches, Of the red wave spreading
through the ranks Of the C2echo-Slo-
yak army In the south, owing TO eX-
tensive agitation carried on for
months by Lenine and his lieutenants
karolyi stirs Masses.
Count Michael Karolyi, before re-
signing as premier, which office he has
held ever since the overthrow Of the
Hansburg monarchy, issued "A procla
nation urging a "word war OF the
proletariat for Justice and pleading
for support of the Hungarian masses
against the decision of the Paris peace
congress 10 occupy Hungary.
Sovets Pick Chief
Copenhagen, March 24-Alcxander
Gorbai has assumed the presidency of
the Hungary revolutionary govern
metn OF workers, peasants and sol
ders councils, with Bella Kun as for
eign commissary aud Joseph Pogany
as war commissary, according to Buda-
pest dispatches.
1t Is reported that Kun has applied
To Lenine for armed assistance against
the allied armies, which have occupied
the greater part of Hungary for the
purpose of putting down the bolshe-
vlk uprising,
The formation OF the new Hungnri-
an soviet government followed The res
lgnation of the Karolyl cabinet Friday
as a result Of the new boundaries be
tween Hungary and Roumanla fixed at
Purls.
Riotng Begins.
Rioting throughout hungary has nc
companIed the change in government
according to reports reaching here.
In Budapest which has not as yet
been occupied by the allied forces,
mobs Saturday stormed the post office
and other public buildings and de-
stroyed the monuments erected 10 Hon
we'd heroes.
All Power is Taken.
A dispatch from Budapest gives the
proclamation OF the new Hungarian
government as follows
"'rhe proletarlat OF Hungary from
today has taken all power in It's own
hands BY the decision Of the Paris
conference TO occupy Hungary the pro-
visioning OF revolutionary Hungary be
comes utterly impossible.
Under these circumstances the sole
means open FOR the Hungarian gov
eminent is dictatorship of the pro
ietariat.
Seize All Big Estates.
Legislative. executive and judicial
authority will be exercised hy dicta.
torship OF the workers, peasants and
soldiers rouupUe
"The revolutionary government
council will begin forthwith work for
the realization of communist socialism.
."rhe council DEGREES the sociali2p-
ton Of large estates. mines, big indus
tries, banks and transport lines. de-
clares complete solidarity with the
Russian soviet government. and offers
20 contract an armed alliance with the
proletariat of Russia
Appeal TO People"