The daily worker., 1928-07-18
HORTHY POLICE
TERROR INCREASE
Hundreds of Workers
Framed, Tortured

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BUDAPEST, (By MaiD.-In Hun
gary terrorism in the iails is in
creasing. During the last few days
mass arrests of workers who are
suspected of Communism" are TAX
ing place in Budapest. In the prov
inces also numerous workers and
even more working women have
been arrested.
The arrests are made on the
ground of the material that has fall
len into the hands of the police dur
ing the trial Of Bella Kun. In reality
Schweinitzer and Hetenyi, the chiefs
Of the Horthy police, are basing
their action on the reports sent them
thru the last few weeks by the Aus
trian police.
Forced Confessions"
The police demanded from the
prisoners Confessions" that they
have sent letters to Bella Kun
Schweinitzer hopes in this way to
prove which members of the Cen
tral Committee of the Hungarian
Communist Party are at this mo-
ment in Budapest.
The prisoners were put thru fear
full mishandling and torture. Even
such bourgeois paper as the
'Prager Presse" describes the do
ings in the Budapest jails as fol-
lows: "There Investigations were
carried on for the whole night as
usual, which means, Confessions"
obtained thru torture and maltreat-
ment."
Many Arrests.
The social-democratic paper "Nep-
szava" writes about it: "On the
orders of Mayor Hetenyi the whole
police force was called out on
riot call on Friday afternoon. The
arrests began in the evening hours
Detective squads were detailed to
the workers quarters, who during
the course of the night arrested
workers in larger or smaller groups
and turned them over to the police
About midnight the hearings began.
On Saturday the arrested workers
were set free"
The Budapest newspaper "a Mai
Nap" reports among other things
the following: "The recently un-
covered Communist plot is closely
connected with the trial of Bella,
Kun in Vienna and it is to be hoped
that the spies sent by Bella Kun
from Vienna to Hungary be discov-
ered The prisoners are for the
most part not workers but young
intellectuals. 1t is to be hoped that
the police will also succeed in cap
turing the courier who brought the
propaganda money from Moscow
thru Vienna to Budapest"
About the wealth of data upon
which police used to make the
numerous arrests, the "New Wen
ma Tageblatt" reports very correct
ly: "The police Investigations go
back to the time, when after the ar
rest of Bella Kun in Vienna the Buda-
pest Chief of Police DR.. Josef
Schweinitzer procured the expropri-
ated correspondence of Bella Kun
from Vienna, by which means he
learnt of the dates of Communist
organization activities in Budapest"
The Vienna Evening" corrobor-
ates this bit of news by reporting
that the Budapest police were sup
ported in their raids "by reports
from foreign police departments.
1t adds further: "The political de-
partment of the Budapest police sent
observers during the trial of Bella
Kun not only to Vienna but also to
Berlin and Warsaw. On the ground
of the reports of these investigators
the Horthy police will prove that
the Communist workers committees
organized by Bella Kun also had an
organization in Budapest. The pres
ent arrests have netted people whom
the police suspect Of having been in
relation with Bella Kun on such a
committee. Besides we also learn
from the head Of the Budapest police
that certain peoples commissar
of the Hungarian Red Dictatorship
is at present in Budapest. He is
being sought for"
From all these reports one fact
stands out clearly, with the help of
that has been put into the /
hands of the Hungarian police by
Schober and Seipel, the police are
now carrying out general cam
paign against the workers. What
is now taking place in the Hun
garian prisons everybody can i'm
agine who remembers the frightful
mishandling and torturing that the
victims of the Rakosi trial were