New Britain herald., 1920-02-28
HUNGARY PROTESTS
 ABOUT ATROCITIES
Claim Rumanians Are Using High
 Handed Methods

1 Paris Feb. 2S.-Strong protests ] against arbitrary action of the Ru- I manian military authorities in Tran l preme allied council in London by the ! Hungarian delegation here. Immedi- 1 ateattention of the council to the situa- l ton is demanded.
 We have just received from your government" the note says, "a tele- gram from which we transmit the fol- lowing extract:
 At Maros-Vasarhely, Rumanlans have arrested Andrew Urgon and a man named Paterban for having giv- en pecuniary aid and support to pub lie officials dismissed from office by Rumanians because they would not take the oath of allegiance" says the note. ''The pretext given for the ar rests is that military conspiracy was contemplated. The persecution Of Magyars has assumed incredible di- | mensions. Major Boros and Stephen and Alexander Morio, bank directors, have been arrested at Dees, while Lieut.. Veres is being detained at Nagylonda.
 Two more death sentences have been pronounced at kolozvar on two
 
 resentment prevails among the Seekers, and it is feared they will act against Rumania on their own respon- sibility. An Entente mission should be set without fail to Pennsylvania, since as a result of British interven- tion there the Rumanians are prepar- ing to treat brutal the church digni- t;.rics as well as other distinguished TranSy ylvanians whom they imagine have applied to foreign countries for protection against the atrocities of the !;umanians This communication speaks for it self. The work of peace is in serious tianger. We are doing our best to bring our part of it to a conclusion on terms which. while taking into ac- count to the largest extent the right of victory and tho claims founded on it would still make it possible for our country to live.
 '''Thc latter standpoint not having received due consideration in the pre- Iinlinarics in which we had no part and in which one sided information had it's own way. we have to represent it 10 our best ability. In doing so we have no desire to place obstacles in the way or a just and lasting peace, which we are as anxious to reach as
 
 reckon with the psychology of a na- ton nearly driven to despair and of a national assembly conscious that it is but a trump, yet having to assume re- sponsibility for a treaty that concerns the whole country including it's un- represented parts. There is no know ing what that assembly will decide but one thing is clear: That a situa- ton, like this, can bear no additional burdens Still it is burdened to the breaking point by the unceasing atrocities in the Rumanian occupa- tion of an area comprising nearly half of Hungary.
 Again and again have we applied to the supreme council asking that the I2umanian troops cVacuate at least the region situated outside the line of de- marcation--a region that ought to send 50 members to the national as- sembly and the deVa station of which is a serious danger to the provision | ing of the country. This evacuation was promised us as early as Novem- Der, 1919; but nothing has been done except the sending of notes. the word ing of which seemed serious enough but which were constantly disregard ed by the RumanianS without incur ring the slightest disfavor. It is a rid de we are unable to solve.
 A gain and again have we submit ted to the supreme council cases of Slaring abuses and of cruel aggreS- sion, showing the inhuman attitude of the Rumanian military and civil au- thorities toward the Magyars in the occupied region; their incapacity of and the growing irritation that must result from this and the i'm possibility to tolerate such thing, whether from the standpoint of hu- man conscience or practical wisdom.
 We repeatedly have asked that an impa rtial mission of inquiry be sent to the spot to ascertain the facts We complain of and to decide whether or not civilized beings ought to be l submitted to such government. To 1 these requests, self-evident, as their 1 seemed, we never have 1 had even an answer. Still less have they been compiled with. One feels l almost tempted to think that underly- l ing this inconceiVable passivity there l is a conscious dread of the truth lest | it should interfere with foregone con- ! cluSions.
 We. however, banish every such ! Thought from our minds. We persist ! in our faith in humanity and the wis l dom of the supreme council which | represents most civilized nations 1 of the world and we make another ap- l peal, still more urgent than the pre- | ceding ones, to it to send a commits 1 sion of inquiry without further delay. l Tn the fulfllment of our peace mission l we must state as impressively as it is |! possible to do that this is critical 1 moment.
 The conclusion of a peace on the 1 Crms offered us, even when just. as l We hope they will be, in important par iculars is itself a heavy moral bur- 1