Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03
HUNGARY DECLARES
WAR ON ENTENTE;
JOINS RUSSIANS
Great Army of Reds Said to Be
Ready for Battle.
LARGE ESTATES ARE SEIZED
Reports Say Several Regiments Of
czecho-sIovaks Inspired by Boil.
shevlst Propaganda, Have Mu-
TIMED and Joined the Reds.

Vienna, March 24.-The Hungarian
government is reported to have signed
a proclamation acknowledging a
state of war between Hungary and the
entente powers"
The Karolyi cabinet, according to
latest word from Budapest, has been
succeeded by a new coalition govern
ment, which is joining hands with the
Russian troops reported to be march
ing into Hungary.
The entire country has been placed
under a state Of siege.
All Hungary has turned bolshevist.
Communists and extreme socialists
dominate the new regime.
"Red" Army Ready.
A great Russian bolshevist army is
reported to be ready between Brody
and Stanislau.
Several regiments of Czecho-Slovaks,
inspired by bolshevist propaganda,
have mutinied 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 Czecho-Slo-
wax army in the south, owing to *
tensive agitation carried on for
months by Lenine and his ~lieutenants.
KaroIyi Stirs Masses.
Count Michael Karolyi, before re-
signing as premier, which office he has
held ever since the overthrow of the
Hapsburg monarchy, issued a procla-
nation urging a world war of the
proletariat for justice" and pleading
for support Of the Hungarian masses
against the decision of the Paris peace
congress to occupy Hungary.
Soviets Pick Chief.
Copenhagen, March 24.-Alexander
Gorbai has assumed the presidency Of
the Hungary revolutionary govern
meth of workers, peasants and sol
diers' councils, with Bella Kun as for
eign commissary and Joseph Pogany
as wal 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-
vik uprising.
The formation of the new Hungari-
an soviet government followedsthe res
ignation Of the Karolyi cabinet Friday
as q result Of the new boundaries be-
tween Hungary and Roumania fixed at
Paris.
Rioting Begins.
Rioting throughout Hungary has ac-
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 to Hon
we'd heroes,
All Power Is Taken.
A dispatch from Budapest gives the
proclamation Of the new Hungarian
government as follows:
"The proletariat 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
open for the Hungarian gov
eminent is a dictatorship Of the pro-
letariat.
Seize All Big Estates.
Legislative, executive and judicial
authority will be exercised by a dicta-
torship of the workers, peasants and
soldiers councils.
"The revolutionary government
council will begin forthwith work for
the realization Of communist socialism.
"The council DEGREES the socialism
ton of large estates, mines, big indus
tries, banks and transport lines, de-
clares complete solidarity with the
Russian soviet government, and offers
to contract an armed alliance with the
proletnriat of Russia"
appeal to People,"
The proclamation by Count Karolyi
announcing the resignation Of the
Hungarian cabinet, of which he was
the head, after referring to the deci-
sion of the peace conference at Paris
to occupy Hungarian territory, says.
according to q dispatch from Vienna /:
THE entente mission declared that
1t intends to regard the d%emarcation
line as the political frontier. The aim
of further occupation Of the country
Is manifestly to make Hungary the
jumping-of ground and the region Of
operations against the Russian soviet
army which is fighting on our frontier.
The land evacuated by us, however, is
to be the pay of the Czech troops by
means of whom the Russian soviet
army Is to be overcome.
"As provisional president Of the
Hungarian peoples republic, l turn,
as against the Paris peace conference,
to the proletariat OF the world for
justice and support"
Calls All N~elohbors.
Paris, March 24.-The proclamation