Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15

They signed death sentences curing the Gay ana
had good times at night in the various night
clubs and cabarets drinking champagne and en-
tertaining themselves with dancers and other
professional girls paying lavishly for their serv-
ices.
This orgy of lawlessness and murder under
the name of the Soviet Republic went on for
long months until with the help of the Allies,
counter revolution started at Szeged and with
the help of the Allied armies and Hungarian
people Budapest was recaptured and white
Hungarian government" took the power, which
repealed all Soviet laws and started to work
Hungary back to her right place.
Bella Kuhn and many of his associates fled
from the country. They went to Vienna, where
they lived for a while under the Soviet gov
ernment protectorate, and after few months
they returned to Moscow.
A whole book would not be enough to describe
the stories of tortures and murders Bella Kuhn
and his comrades committed during their rule
We wish to mention only few outstanding
ones:
There were many Russian war prisoners in
Hungary all over the country working on the
farms. Bella Kuhn asked some officers from
Moscow for the purpose of enIistng these war
prisoners in his Red army. The Soviet govern
ment sent but a dozen Communist officers to
Budapest for the job, with five million kronen.
When two Ukranian officers learned the purpose
for which Bella Kuhn wanted the Red army, they
expressed their opposition in using Russian war
prisoners against the innocent farmers. Some
body told Bella Kuhn what the Ukranian off,
GERS said. Bella Kuhn ordered them to be arrested
and to be brought before him. They awakened
the officers in their hotel room at night. The
Communist dictator scolded them and then
called his aide from the next room:
"Take them away and get rid of then."
"Shall we shoot them?"
"No, don't waste the bullets throw them In
the Danube"
Red terrorist soldiers took the two officers to
the bank of the Danube. They ordered them to
take off their clothes, robbed them of every
thing, then they tied rope around their necks,
put big rock at the end of the rope and threw
them into the river.
IN MAY l. 1919, a Red detachment stopped
~ at Abony They arrested Bella Battlik, Eu-
gene Piros Joe Molnar, Steve Lajsak Michael
Feher and Gabrial Dolly, all well-to-do farmers
In three minutes they sentenced them to death
They took them to the plaza They hanged the
first and then forced the others, one after
another to remove the rope from the neck of
the dead one, and place it around their own
necks.
Next day they hanged eight men on one tree
to give Christmas present to the people of
the village"
On July 5th on the accusation of the secret
police at Budapest, Bella Kuhn ordered the ar
rest of Oskar Ferry, brigadier general of the
gendarment, Alex Borhy and John Menkina
colonels, They robbed them of all valuable ar
tices and took them TO the basement of a school
building, which they used as a temporary JAIL
They tortured them throughout three days and
then killed them. Their blood was all over the
walls and floor.
Two days later they arrested AL Pongrac
Louis Kamutv, Benedek Dekany Andrew Bal-
onyi, Paul Pinter. Paul Jakabos, Andrew Fer
enca. Frank 10th, Frank Sztankovich, Andrew
Ven John Trapulai, Joe Szabo Imre Domonkos
Joe Gollen Julius Osbath, Bant Csala Luis
Tanay and AL Tanay, all former government
officers. They took them out to a park. where
they had to dig their graves Then thev
had to stand at the edge of their grave and wait
until the Red soldiers shot them, one by one
On April %. 1919 under the order of Bella
Kuhn Red soldiers went to arrest Count Sander
Szechenyi, Count Sander Staray Sandor IIolan
Sr. and SSndor Holan Jr., both former secre-
taries of the Department of Commerce and
Frank Szavil, former member of the Supreme
Court. The Red terror soldiers arrested the two
Hollans at night. Awakening them, they forced
them to follow them in their pajamas and bare
feet into the cold spring night. They took them
to the bank of the Danube river and started to
argue about which would be the best way to
kill them Let them jump in the river" one
soldier advised. agreed" said the others But
let's give them long jump" So they chased
them up the bridge and ordered them to stand
at the edge of the bridge, AS they jumped into
the river they shot their bodies full of lead be-
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