Evening star., 1944-03-21
New Government
Reported Being
Established
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kingdom.
Some scattered opposition sprun
from the occupation, but there wa
nothing to suggest any serious diff
culties for Hitler. Whatever oppo
sltlon there was came after a ca
Tor resistance Wy Hungarian leader.
but the Nazis were reported fan
ming out and occupying all strategi
points, especially railroad junction
and switching points.
p-flight Hungarian leaders in
cluding Admiral Nicholas Horthy, tn
regent, and foreign ministers, wer
believed v. ually kidnapped in Ger
many. whence they had been sum
moned to receive peremptory de-
mands for all-out military assist
ance.
There were conflicting report,
about Premier Nicholas Kallay. H,
was variously reported as missint
in Germany and organizing resist.
ance in Hungary.
Several thousand Socialists anc
Liberals were arrested in Budapest.
New Regime Being Formed.
Bella Imredi, former Premier ane
Foreign Minister and Hungarian
Nazi, was reported establishing 8
government. He was said to have
convoked Parliament for tomorrow
at which time he was expected tt
assume Admiral Horthy's powers.
A German Foreign ONCE spokes.
man was quoted by the Berlin radio
as saying mo detailed discussion o1
the Hungarian problem was pos
sible as long as certain phases in
the development were not yet con-
cluded." The German press was
silent.
Stockholm dispatches said there
were some indications that the
satellite gateway kingdom to Nazi
communications in the Balkans
might become new area Of Parti-
san activity directed against Ger
man transport and military opera
tions. One report was that Marshal
Tito's Yugoslav Partisans had re-
Gently been in Hungary organizing
units.
Troops Hit In Boats.
The newspaper Tidningen OF
Stockholm said German troops had
hidden in boats on the Danube near
Budapest and burst forth to occupy
strategic points in the capital at a
given signal.
Hitler's main motive in occupy
ing Hungary was to bring truth
worthy troops into position te
stop gaps in the Carpathian Noun
tains. Another purpose might be te
try to persuade the Rumanians that
danger to their Transylvanian ter
ritory from the Hungarians had beer
reduced by occupation.
A reliable, direct report from the
Balkans said Hungarian troops had
fought both German and Rumaniar
forces near the southeastern from
tier around Arad.
Two Rumanian divisions were sale
to have been included in the forces
of occupation.
300 Officers Return.
1t was reported that 300 officer.
who fled to Germany in January tt
avoid court-martial had returned
to Hungary. They were reported
helping Imredi as head of a fifth
column. The officers we're said tt
include Marshal Feketehalmy, Mai
Gen. Grassy and a Col Dekak.
Among those reported slated TO
prominent places in Imredi's gov
ernment were Stefan Antal, presen
minister of propaganda and know
Nazi admirer; George Attlik, edito
of Poster Lloyd, and the Fascis
Arrowcross leader Szalasy.
Omitted States Government
monitors heard the broadcast of
German dispatch saying that
DR.. Michel Jungerth-Arnothy,
Hungarian Minister TO Bulgaria,
would leave Sofia for Budapest
today. 1t gave no explanation,
but added that a new Hungarian
military attache, 1t. Col Istvan
Szoeke, had arrived in Sofia. The
Swiss radio said occupation of
Hungary by the German Army
can be considered an established
fact)
Stockholm advices said Hitler hac
iured Admiral Horthy, Foreigr
Minister Jeno Won Ghyczy and Gen
Franz Szombathelyl, chief of th'
army general staff, TO his headquar
ters before ordering his troops for
ward and was still holding then
prisoner.
The London Daily Mail said al
unidentified radio station had broad
cast this message from Hungarian
military authorities:
we have suffered our first dea,
In the fight against the invader, ou
former ally. The fight must an,
will continue"
Mani Betrayal Charged.
This apparently was secre
Hungarian station, which wa
quoted in Stockholm as telling it
listeners:
The whole Hungarian natio,
must fight against the Germans
who deceived the Hungarians an,
betrayed their alliance"
Hungarian sources in Stockholm
said the station-named after Loui
Kossuth, a leader of the revolution
against the Hapsburgs in l848-ha
existed for some time and was re
garded as an outlet for the Hun
garian military.
Various neutral reports Indicate
the German occupation came afte
Premier Kallay refused these de
mands by Hitler:
That Hungary provide troops +
fill the gaps in the German Arm
caused by the Russian offensives
tSee HUNGARY, Page A-l2)