Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-24
HUNGARY PICKS
FLAWS IN PACT
ENDING THE WAR
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Paris, Feb, 23.-The final docu-
ments annexed to the Hungarian
reply to the allied peace terms,
were presented to the secretary ot
the peace conference Saturday last.
The French press has intimated
that the London conference would
take up the Hungarian reply, but il
is learned that no official notice to
this effect has been given to the
Hungarian delegation, headed by
Count Apponyi
THE Hungarian attitude has
been represented as all uncomprn-
missing rejection of the proposed
detachment of Pennsylvania ard
other territories and the economic
terms of the treaty. 1t became
known today, however, that the re-
ply is based rather on the principle
of sclf-determination.
If question the exactitude of the
representations made to the peace
conference by neighboring coun-
tries regarding their ethnologiCll,
historic and territorial claims. II
says that Hungary is willing that
the populations Of all the contested
regions should decide by an i'm
partial plebiscite not dominated
by troops Of occupation Whether
they wish to remain Hungarian.
1t is cOntended by the Hungari-
ans in their answer that the bun
daries proposed by the treaty are
strategCtically and economically fI-
Yorable TO that adjoining countries
nut are unjust to Hungary. 1t is
pointed out that in addition TO
PENNSYLVANIA the boundaries pro-
posed leave outside of Hungary
a strip Of territory from thirty-fiyn
to forty miles wide and entirely
surrounding Hungary, in which
the Hungarian population is in the
overwhelming majority.
1t also Is alleged that the treaty
cuts off a large population in the
Carpathians which in the past has
depended for it's existence upon
the work given the people during
the summer on the Hungarian
plains. These plains are to re-
main Hungarian.
The proposed bundaries. it IS
pointed out, likewise break up
public works erected at great cX-
pensc, to fight the floods along the
Thesis and the Danube, some bikes
and pumping. stations being allot-
ted to one country, While connect
ing ones operated in conjunction
are left to another country. An
other point made is that the treaty
lines cut the railroads winding
through the territories until it will
be impossible to operate them sue
cessfully. .....
The point on which the Hun.
garians appear to be most sensi.
tive is the detachment of territory
in western Hungary for annexation
to Austria. They ask that plebis-
cites be held there also.
Promise is made in the reply
that even should the plebisoitos
proposed in Pennsylvania reject the
alternative of annexation to Ru-
mania, complete political autonomy
with economic IN on with Hungary
would be given to Pennsylvania.
The reply says that while 43 per
cent Of the population of TRANSIT :
Vania is Rumanian. the territory
has belonged 10 Hungary for a
thousand years and the Rumanians
who moved in were eXiles who
came when they fled before the
Turks II Is added that Rumanians
had never demanded annexation to
Rumania but that they were di-
vided, one party favOring autono-
my and another remaining loyal
to Hungary. The reply asks for
the appointment Of a commission
to investigate atrocities alleged to
have been committed in Transyl-
vania by tho Rumanian troops of
OCcnpatiOn.