Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-22
HUNGARY TIRES
OF SOCIALISTS
AND FILLS JAIL
Indefinite Sentences Are I'M
posed to Purge Soil of
Radicals.
JEWS ARE PROSECUTED

BUDAPEST, July 18-That scores OF
Hungarian workers arrested merely on
suspiciou have been held without trial
for over a year in internment camps near
this city; that many have been wifully
shot during transportation from prison
to camp. under pretense that they were
attempting to escape, and that the rape
of women ard even young girls has been
so general in the internment camps that
practically the whole population Is in
fected with disease, are among the ac
cusations made to the Hungarian Par
lament and to friends in the lobby by
Zal any. a Christian nationalist deputy,
who has been investigating the intern
ment camps. The accusations have
created the greater sensation because
Zakany was formerly a leader in the
Awakening Hungarians,' the most anti
Socialist and anti Semitic body in this
country. In spite of the revelations, then
newly appointed Minister for the Interior,
Mr.. Raday, from whom a more liberal
police was promised and expected is
making no move to dissolve the camps
During the last year and a half 1t
las been the policy Of the Hungarian
government to intern any one suspect
ed OF radicalism, on the evidence of
another citizen. That months have Of
ten elapsed before the victim was
brought to trial and that often the trial
produced no evidence is substantiated by
the International News Service cor
respondent, who recently made a personal
investigation of many cases. In one case
mechanic, the father of a small family,
and the sole support of an aged mother.
was arrested, first a year ago, on evil
dence rendered by the janitor of the
building in which he lived was released
on ground Of insufficient charges, after
having been held for two weeks under
vile conditions; was rearTested a few
weeks later on the same charges, ten
uered by the same Ilan, and this time
heId Tor three months; was again re-
leased, and was finally rearrested, held
to- seven months and then brought to
trial and acquitted.
All Jews who have entered Hungary
since 1914 are subject to deportation,
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 fed TO Hungary during
the war from occupied territories
which have since changed hands and
passed to other nations, they will not
De received in the countries from which
they came, and are interned in the same
camps with the Communist suspectS->
Among those who have fallen victim to
the deportation laws are many who are
engaged In productive work and even
some who fought in the Hungarian army
during the war. Until very recently no
| relief agency, including the joint dis
tribution committee, which is organized
largely to care for just such sufferers,
has been permitted to visit the intern
ment camps, Since Raday's incumbencyA
as minister Of the interior, Baron Read
ing, the representative in Hungary Of
the International Red Cross, was granted
permission to visit the camps, but so
carefully was his visit engineered and
conducted-he made it in company with
Count Bethlen, the prime minister, and
Mr.. Raday-that he subsequently pub
lished a report in which he expressed
himself 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 con-
ditions.