Evening star., 1919-03-31
Promise to Release Troops
Made After Struggle in
Neutral Zone.
BUDAPEST ULTIMATUM
SENT CZECHOSLOVAKS
German Diplomatic Agent Advises
Departure of Citizens of His
Country From Hungary.
BY the Associated Press.


PARIS, March 31.---A small force of
French troops stationed in the neutral
zone between Hungary and Rumania
has been attacked by Hungarian
troops, $50 of the French being taken
prisoner, according to an official re-
port received here.
On demand of the French general.
promised by the Hungarians
Greatly disturbed conditions are re-
ported to exist in Hungary.
Ultimatum to Czechoslovaks.
BASEL. Switzerland. March 81
(Havas).-The Hungarian government
is reported in Vienna dispatches to
have sent an ultimatum to the Czecho-
Slovak government. This action, it
is stated. was taken because of the
and rumor that there would be a
general mobilization in Bohemia in
the near future.
Germans Advised to Leave.
BERLIN. Sunday. March 80 (by the
Associated Press).-The diplomatic
agent Of the German government at
Budapest has advised Germans to
leave Hungary.
COPENHAGEN. March 3e.-The vi
emma Volks Zeitung's Budapest corre-
spondent says the Hungarian govern
ment has offered to ally itself with the
German government against the en-
tente. according to a dispatch received
here. A telegram of the Wolff Bureau
says. however, that nothing is known
in official quarters in Berlin concern
ing such an offer.
Changes in Banking Business.
VIENNA. Saturday. March 20 (by
the Associated Press).-Fol1owing the
practice put into effect by the Rus
sian soviet government at Moscow.
bank presidents In Budapest have
clerks administer the business. Rents
no longer are paid to landlords, but
to the government, which is. repre-
sented by the janitors. The stores
have been nationalized and the heads
of factories have been replaced by
those elected by the workmen
The banking business is being
handicapped under the new reeula-
tions. No one is allowed to draw out
more than 500, except in the payment
of salaries. A check must be signed
by all the trustees before it is. sub
mitted to bank. where it, is honored
on the condition that the trustees of
the institution are shown to be en-
ployes
During the period in which inventories
are being taken all stores are closed ex-
cent for the sale Of food and drugs.
toward Vienna. Ali are deprived Of
their belongings at the frontier il they
attempt to pass the border without be-
ing searched.
-.sAll estates have been appropriated by
the government. American officials are
being we'll treated by the Hungarian Off
Gals and American couriers are allowed
to pass in and out Of Budapest without
hindrance. Telegraphic service is re-
stricted and slow.
In Czechoslovakia it is reported that
uprisings have occurred News of the
Hungarian bolshevism has spread rap
idly and the revolutionary spirit in west
Ukraine and Rumania is said to be in
creasing. -
Food Problem.
PARIS, March so (by the Associated
Press).-Hungary's increasing need OF
food, especially fats. is causing the
American relief administration Ito
give serious consideration to the
problem of restoring the 25O,0OO hogs
lost to the people of that country
by the fixation Of new boundaries.
in the closing days of the war thE
Austro-Hungarian authorities sent
these animals to the southern sprov-
inces for fattening and ailSfof them
still are in the hands -sofifhe Jugo-
slaYs. - ,4sa.a
American officials have opened nego-
tia,tions IAsedete tM11fe whether by
purcbaAe r shRE5st. the. hogs will be
retuIsd when J6tst needed.
"A greater part of the difficulties
created by the blockades' and therat-
enaa. blockades along. the Italian
fnon&er disappeared in ttespast week.
and a a result food is. moving to
Czeehoslovakia. Austria and Hum.
galy In greater volume. -ss:y