Evening star., 1934-12-07
Situation Tense
With Clashes
Imminent.
DENIAL MADE
BY BELGRADE
Cruelties Reported
as Refugees Pour
Into Homeland.

Copvright 1894. bv the Associated Press.
SZEGED, Hungary, December T.
After intermittent fOrays across the
frontier into Hungary this morning
Serbian troops attached to the Yugo-
slav Army retired temporarily reliev-
ing a highly dangerous situation.
AS the forces remain only short
distance from the frontier. however.
their presence is source of great
anxiety to Hungary.
The official Hungarian news agency
said the "Chetniks.' an organization
of armed men. made midnight raids
on evacuated Hungarian homes in
YugoSlavia, carrying of yaluabes
A pogrom. the agency said. was an
nounced by the "Chetniks' to be I'M
pending against HungarlanS.
Cruelties Reported
The Hungarian news agency de-
clared the YugOslav authorities in
their wholesale deportatlons did not
spare any one by reason of age, sex
or illness
AT the railroad termini on the
front point" said the agency, moth
ers were locking for lost children and
lost children were looking for mothers.
The Yugoslav police showed a
complete lack of mercy to those eX-
PEELED. The refugees we're forced at
oF
homes, often in the thick of night,
often without any chance to take any
thing with them, and were then
marched under guard to the railroad
stations They did not even spare a
70-year- old man with an insane wife,
Among the refugees are 80 babies
One thousand Hungarians have been
expelled from the Baranya district,
1900 from Novisad and 1900 from
Subotica"
A Serb detachment of Yugoslav
soldiers entered this country only
three miles from here early this
morning and challenged Hungarian
border force to fight.
Only strong disciplinary action by
Hungarian officers. they reported, pre-
vented a battle.
Situation Tense.
The situation was tense and grave
fears we're expressed by authorities.
Szeged officials said they did not be-
lieve an attack on the city was con-
templated, but if it came the city
was prepared Streets were crowded
with Hungarian soldiers.
(Szeged, with a population Of 1885,
600, is Hungary's second largest city.
Budapest, the capital and the largest,
is only SO miles away
The invasion followed Yugoslavia' S
expulsion Of thousands of Hungarians,
VINO continued to come across the
border today. The situation rose from
the assassination of King Alexander of
Yugoslavia at Marseille october 9
Indignation was at fever pitch in
Hungarian border villages. Serb
troops, wearing their emblem of a
skull and crossbones, shouted threats
and imprecations at Hungarians, au-
thorities reported
SZeged and nearby towns were filled
to overfloWing with weary and fright
ened refugees. Increasing the fear
was the knowledge that Yugoslav
forces are far superior to Hungarian
troops along the frontier.
Many Of the refugees were so Ill
they required hospital treatment.
Four hundred were added last night
to the 1903 who had arrived yester-
day and the preceding night, Another
refugee train was expected. The en-
igres told stories of mistreatment at
the hands of Yugoslavs. Some said
they were forced to leave behind much
personal property.
Heavy guards of police were kept
last night about the schools where the
refugees slept.
Among those expelled from Yugo-
slavia were a 4-year-old boy with a
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