The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13
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SOVIET, HUNGARY
Intervention Would Be Wei
!; coined and Be o Setback
to Bolshevism.
GOVERNMENT Is ABUSIVE
Present Situation Cannot
Long Continue, Says Writer
|: Budapest Now Quiet.
ny J. NJ. JEFFRIEs.
Special Cable Despatch TO THE suN from the
London Times srrice.

BY j. NJ. JEFFRIES.
Special Gable Despatch TO THE suN from inc
London Times sartce
Copyright, 1919: all rights rsserved'
BUDAPEST, April 10 (delayed) Nearly
three weeks have passed since the estab-
Ifsbnrent of the Soviet Government. and
during the same time In general exter-
NIL order has been preserved by Buda-
pest. Lsst Thursday morning the situa-
tfor, appe aired dangerous for few hours.
owing to three separate demonstrations
arising simultaneously at the Foreign
Once with conflicting demands.
So far as can be ascertained-the DEM
constructors themselves appeared vague re-
rarding their. objects-there was fast n
demonstration by the Socialist Comnnn-
lists, provoked by the attempt OF their
employer Manfred Weiss, owner of a
huge factory. to commit suicide; second
a demonstration OF Communist civilians
against NJ. PoEany on the ground OF nus
enrolling men in the Red army and the
suspicion OF his pocketing public
moneys third. a demonstration by the
Red Guard, who are generally dissatis-
fed with the condition of affairs, partic-
ularly with the conduct of N. Pogany.
AS a matter of fact Pogany had re-
signed on Saturday night. March 2, but
tue TtSlSldllOn was hol pupiiShSt b''e-'
a few days ago, when 1t was announced
that the War Office had been put into a
commission of five-Bela Kun. w. BONN.
Bella Szanto, Rudolf Fielder and A Hau-
brich-and that Pogany had been trans
ferred to the Foreign Office and his un-
derstudy. Szamuelly, to the Ministry of
Public Instruction.
Outlines Soviet Plans.
The task Of calming the demonstrators
mainly fell upon Bella Vago OF the Home
Office, who argued that unless complete
order was maintained untn the election
of the Soviets within few days they
would defer the outbreak of n general
European revolution now trembling in
the balance, The basis Of dictatorship
and victory by the proletariat was out
lined. without which they could not hold
their front, strike down the bourgeois
and rear the structure of a socialistic
state. SzamueIly declared that they were
capable not only of victory in Hungary,
but ''also on the other side Of the boun-
dairy"
1t is evident that the government was
alarmed. since the next morning decree
condemned in the sharpest terms "the
arbitrary and violent action of individual
groups of the proetariat," and NJ
Pogany and the commissioners of the
War Office issued a special order en-
Joining discipline on every soldier in the
Red army.
The public is temporarily much
alarmed. The trans have stopped run
ming and virtually all the shops and
cafes are closed. The Red Guard went
In large parties through the streets,
tearing distinctions of officers and col
lecting 'benevolences'' from shopkeepers.
SHUTS in Budapest.
The second most important event was
the arrival of Gen. SHUTS and his. staff
HIS coming was received with general
expectation and the British flag. which
had disappeared from the Ritz Hotel
since the departure of the allied mis-
sions was. again hoisted. According to
the press, his mission was to- build up
agreements between Hungary, Rumania,
Serbia and Czecho-S lovakia. but proba-
bly, Gen. SHUTS wished mainly to get a
trustworthy account of the present sit
uation in Hungary. The Government
was certainly pleased by his visits and
various peoples and commissaries all ex-
pressed the hope that better relations
would result.
Herein. 1t seems to me. they are bound
ultimately to be disappointed If the En-
tente has any backbone left at all, but
the outstanding fact of the political sit
uation to-day is that the Government is
dent, Garbai, downward. Even the 30
called Socialist radical elements. such as
Garbai and Pogany, are all firmly con-
WINGED that Bolshevism will spread
quickly to German Austria, Czecho-
Slovakia, Serbia, Rumania and. II the
Entente proposes too hard terms. TO
Germany also. In the latter case. they
say it would further spread to France
and England.
am assured in all seriousness that II
| am working two years hence l shall
be working for Communized newspa GERS
No member of the Government professed
TO care two straws for the Paris Confer
ence. and certainly their light hearted
committal OF acts of war justifies theii
words
A particularly gross case against the
French troops has come to my notice
a total OF seventeen officers and 436
men were disarmed on March Is and
brought to Budapest on the ground OF
having crossed the demarkation line, and
they were only released last Monday
after the strongest representa- tons from
Ma or Fry, the French commander. anC
British Lieut.. Commander Freeman.
Major Fry's party found its train wa,
run between two armored trains neal
Bekis Csaba. and also surrounded by
rifemen and machine guns. The Bolshe
visits announced "all were French bu
we shall keep order and persuade then
to make common cause with us. We do
not want 500 good marksmen TO swell
the EntenteS armies of capitalism"
The units involved In this affair arr
the Third Colonial Infantry. the 214tl
and the 219th sections of auto cannons
Frankly. the people here regard the mill
tary power of the Entente az completed,
shattered. and say peace will be signed