The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-11
ARE GREEN HANDS
There Are Officials in Hungary
Who Are New.
Know Nothing About Rules
and Are Anxious To Please.

Budapest, April luxurious tales
are told concerning the new govern
ment ministers, who are so unaccus-
toned to performing official duties
that they are ready to accede to almost
any kind of a request to oblige for
eigners and show good will. Notwith-
standing the drastic regulations for
bidding the crossing of existing from
tiers. minor official of the western
Ukraine government, by simple re-
quest to the foreign officers. obtained
a pass to cross the frontiers when
and wherever he pleased without ex-
animation of his baggage.
The work of organizing the country
is being feverishly continued, the cen
trail feature of the plan is to apply the
trust idea to all industries. putting
each group of factories-textiles,
expert who is made responsible for its
operations. All the clubs and fashion
able exclusive resorts have been social
lied. including the park club. The
jockey club has been converted into a
laborers' home and the splendid race
course, which cost years time and
100000 to make. is being plowed up
for potatoes. There is an. organiza-
ton of women's red guards function
ing now, but it's one hundred members
are occupying themselves for the most
part with propaganda work.
ArlStOcratS Are IN want.
Many of the aristocratic women of
the city have been reduced to want.
Baroness Schossberger, once having
property worth a million dollars or
more, now is playing harp in a cheap
restaurant for her food.
II All the palaces have been con-
iverted into resorts for working mems
lof Count Jules Andrassy has been re-
moved youthful portrait of Raphael,
an art work of great value. Madame
Margaret Karolyi, the widow of Ste
ohen Karolyi, is living in two rooms
Pf her palace, the remainder being
occupied by a society of photog-
taphers. Count Andrew Tschoni lives
In two rooms of his palace with a
flub of hotel cooks occupying the rest
pf his home. Red Guards are living
In Archduke Joseph's palace, oppo-
Eite the Royal Castle, while a musi-
clans club occupies the palace of
Count Nemes. A leading fashionable
hotel was originally designated by the
Red Guard as a barracks and the
guests were notified to quit within a
communist leader, was informed of
what was going on, he remarked
irritably from the bed in which he
was reposing: what do care?'
But the American mission is living
there" his informant exclaimed.
Leave U. S. Mission Alone.
On hearing this Bella Kun sprang
to a telephone and told the Red guard
to find quarters elsewhere.
The attempted exodus of the we'll
TODD class is continuing and there is
flourishing trade in foreign passports.
American passports are bringing as
high as $1,000, while there are Incl
dents of bold efforts to steal such pass
ports, some of the attempts even being
upon American officers and couriers.
An Anglo-American train will leave
Saturday for West Europe by way of
Vienna. The passengers on the train
are to be mostly women, the wives of
Hungarians, who by courtesy of the
Hungarians, are permitted to class
themselves as aliens. Difficulties are
arising, however, over the amount of
money they will be permitted to take
with them, as they will have to draw
from the banks for their funds, and
the limit permitted to be taken from
these institutions is ordinarily only
500 monthly