Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-17
POLAND'S COLLAPSE
ENDANGERS EUROPE
Central Nations Volcano, Still
Covered With. Smoke Fol-
lowing Eruption.
BY Associated Pres. to Every Evening


Budapest, Aug. Hungry S statesmen
are fearful of the consequences if tho Boil
shevih crush Poland. Admiral Nc olas
Horthy, Regent of Hungary, when seen
at his palace office by The Associated
Press correspondent, said on that subject:
Should Poland collapse Europe would
have to face a serious crisis since all in
tcrnational order and standing power
OF Central Europe has been shaken by the
breakdown after five years OF war and by
the crushing peace treaty in addition to
other evils in the wake of war. The
treaties dictated by the Allies were unable
to create order and tranquility, on the
contrary all our evils grew more acute and
all painful problems, on the way of
solution more or less in the past, face us
grimly like as many sphlnxes. Central
Europe is volcano after the eruption, still
covered with smoke, and we cannot see
any reassuring sign as vet TO avert dangers
lurking in the future above Europe.
81 am informed about the preparations
of the Bolshevists. These preparations
are not of a recent date and'it is not ex-
clusively Hungary they are related to.
Bolshevistic propaganda is an enemy of
all countries not accepting the principles
of the Third 1nternationale, trying to
spread Its doctrines in the United States
and Canada Just as we'll as in Hungary.
The most dangerous means of all boil
she vistic offensves is Just the propa-
ganda and from that viewpoint there was
not a single moments cessation in the
bolshevlstlc offensive against Hungary.
On the contrary 1t maintains feverish
activity against us by the means of the
Hungarian communistic fugitives inVlenna
aided with Russian money. 1t is a pity
that IN many Western countries people
do not realize the dangers and the means of
the bolshevist propaganda.
The relation of Hungary to her neigh
bors depends solely upon how our neigh
bors wish to establish u.s. 1t is in their
interest that the treaty has been forced on
us by the Allies so that is their duty to
start better relations. Although it is
much easier for them to do that, un-
happily they show very few signs of their
intentions to that effect up to the present.
They continue their intolerable attitude
toward Hungary living on territories
severed from Hungary.
DAY by day for Is months our people
have been fleeing from the occupied terri
tories and our railroad terminals are not
large enough to shelter the railroad cars
they are living in. These prosecuted
families of course, are strong advocates of
an lrredentist propaganda. II our neigh
bors have really serious intention to
Improve general sentiment toward us,
they have to make it possible, first of all,
for those fellow-countrymen of ours to
return home. They have to stop perse-
cutions so that even on that most un-
fortunate spot ,of Europe there should
be open for everybody chance to make
a living compatible with human dignity.
1t would be of first rate i'm portance to
have effected that improvement in public
sentiment, as preliminary condition
to the resumption of economic connections.
The misery of the people of these terri
tories of the former Austro-Hungarian
monarchy, compact economical terri
tory IN the past, is due mainly to the fact,
that all the natural, economic ties are cut
and they are being forced into the most
unnatural connections. We quote as an
instance the salt supply of the country
which commodity could be procured from
the mines few kilometers distant from
the present boundary line in Marmaros
In spite of all that we are obliged to supply
our needs In salt from Germany. That