Paragould soliphone., 1921-06-24
Socialists of Hungary
 Being Prosecuted
nnternatlonal News seryles,

HHHhpt%l, June dS.-' nat scores lof iiunRanian workers arrested merely on suspicion have been held without rial for over year in in ternment camps near this city; that many have been wilfully shot dur 1 ing transportation from prison to camp, under pretense that they were attempting to escape, and that the rape of women and even young IGirla has been SO general in the in !ternment camps that practically the whole population is infected with disease, are among the accu- Isalion9 made to the Hungarian par lament and to friends in the lobby by Xakany, a Christian nationalist deputy, who has been Investigating the internment camps. The accu- ISatiOns have created the greater sensation bccause Xakany was for merly d leader in the Awakening IllunEariana, the most Social
 at and anti Semitic body in this country. In spite of the revelations. the ewly-appointed Minister for the Interior. MT ltaday. from whom la more liberal policy was promised and expected, ia making no move to dissolve the camps.
 During the last year and q half it has been the policy of the Hun garian government to intern any Ione suspected Of radicalism, on the evidence of another citizen. That months have often elapsed before the victim was brought to trial and that often the trial produced no evidence is substantiated by the In- ternational News Service corre- spondent, who recently made a per aonal investigation of many cases. In one case a mechanic, the father of small family, and the sole sup port of an aged mother, was arrest ed, first q year ago, on evidence ing in which he lived. was released on ground of insufficient charges after having been held for two weeks under vile conditions; was rearrested afew weeks later on the same charges, rendered by the same man, and this time held for three months was again released and was finally rearrested, held for seven months and then brought to trial and acquitted.
 PERSECUTION OF JEWS.
 All Jews who have entered Hun gary since 1914 are subject to de- portation and a persistent effort is being made to round them all up. Since hundreds of them have no passports, owing to the fact that they fled to Hungary during the war from occupied territories, which have since changed hands and pass ed to other nations, they will not be received in the countries from which they came, and are interned in the same camps with the Com munist suspects. Among those who have fallen victim to the deporta . tion laws are many who are engag- ed in productive work and even some who fought in the Hungarian army during the war. Until very recently no relief agency, including the Joint Distribution Committee. which is organized largely to care for just such sufferers, has been per mitted to visit the internment camps. Since Raday's incumbency as Min
 ster of the Interior Baron Reading, the representative in Hungary of the International Red Cross. was granted permit to visit the camps. but so carefully was his visit engi- neered and conducted made it in company with Count Bethlen, the Prime Minister, and MT. Raday that he subsequently published a report in which he expressed him self as satisfied with conditions.
 There are no Social Democrats in the Hungarian Parliament at present, and only one Jew; but the Peasants Party is pressing for a reformation of the conditions.