Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-02
vEeET TAbLES THROWN Fl AuSTRIANS WHO ANNEX THIS TOWN
0 !0!denburg, Hungarian City, ' Objects to Becoming
 Austrian

s'H. C0SHDu1g, herman west Hungary,
 ny 1.Red, white and green post Sers with legends of protest against she separation of this ro-Hungarian ttty from Hungary, and it's access 9ton by Austria as soon as the peace IA ratified. appear in nearly every Aouse and shop window.
 Two Austrian commissioners. sent 8Aele to make preliminary arrange ments for taking over the admins tration of the town. upon their arriv- II were hooted and jeered by grea. crowd, vegetables were thrown at their carriage and black flags hung < from most of the public and other
 nulldings- They seem powerless, it
 lS said, and are now virtually volun-
 tariiy interned in their offices here.
 This little city, which the Hungar-
 aans call Sopron, is the metropolis
 of that strip of territory which the < peace conference took from Hungary 2 md gave to Austria on economic, X anthnologic and strategic grounds.
 Its loss has caused the Budapest
 government to make various propos- X Als to Austria in an effort to retain II, all of which have been refused.
 Meanwhile the men here very gen.
 orally wear the Hungarian colors in K their coat lapels and the women on
 their hats or as hair ribbons. The X Austrians charge that the demonstra-
 tiOn against their mission was a gov \ ernmentally organized affair.
 The Hungarian government has \ enieavored, it is charged, to create
 the Impression that this region is K spreponderantly Hungarian in race, K tongue and by predeliction. The Nicnna government, on the other
 hand, has resisted this with coun- E ter claims that the people are de-
 nainantly Germanic by blood, lan- Guage and desire.
 Of late weeks there has been con-
 siderable publicity given semi-offi- |& cial Austrian statements that, pend N ing their withdrawal, the Hungarians
 were expressing the Austrian popula-
 ti0n, requisiticning material of all
 kinds and generally wreaking their revenge in much the same way the K Rumanians did to them It was even ' ptAtes in high Vienna quarters that farmers horses were being taken N N sEcy. & III to lead the correspondent for the \ \ hAHd investigation. This has cov- cred 10 typical villages, exclusive of V this little capital, with talks here
 end there with peasants in the z fields or along the roads.
 It is fair to say that in the re- z xion visited no evidence in support K of the alleged Hungarian oppression x or requistiOning was to be had. The |# net impression gained was that the @M E majority of the population in the K localities covered are in favor of |A union wi$h Austria. One reason, as Ss Jigned, by the peasants was because ' the Magyars, they said, had never < olyen them proper schools. Their children were poorly taught, if
 taught at all, and they at least knew \ the Austrians had good schools. Then, Vienna was their market. Budapest Was q long way off. The Hun Garian official classes were "unsym- pthetic with the farmer' and so on. This was echoed in other towns. Nat \ there men talked of the Vienna com m1nist government, with which they wanted nothing to do.
 Here in Odenburg an allied com
 infusion is sitting composed of Brit 9h, French and Italian officers, \ watching over affairs until the Aus { lkiAns take hold. There is a vine country. It has
 always looked to Hungary for it's
 GTAin supply and fear exists that this x may be cut off. Thus the economic Z problem assumes q very vital phase
 for Austria, which must supply at
 1east as much grain as this region
 aas received heretofore.
 While the territory involved is
 small and the population only about x 3O0, ,OOO, the strategic aspect of this zSarea probably is its most important one. Austria's present frontier is l& regarded as dangerous in that Vien- ma and Wiener Neustadt, as we'll as x many other industrial centers lying X along the main line of the railway, x are but little distance from Hun s gary, easily open to attack from that
 more powerful neighbor. The ac- M quisition of German West Hungary
 sis thus defensive terrain for Aus N tria.