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Show FNKE SEEKS TfflnUHOI Would Place Soldiers Between Be-tween Russia and Hungary Hun-gary to Stop Reds. By CHARLES A. SELDEN. f.N'cw York Times Cable, Copyright.) 1 PARIS, March 5. As to nearly every question that comes up, the answer of the Fxench to the new complication caused by trie Hungarian government collapse. Is, "send trocps." France still would put a barrier between Ltnssia and Hungary to prevent the cooperation co-operation of tho Bolsheviki in tne two countries. This may seem like locking the barn after the horse hr.o been stolen, in view of ttlae .fact that Bela Kuhn jind Lenine are in communication and It is reported that several thousand Russians are already al-ready passing through the Carpathians unhindered. ' Nevertheless, French statesmen do not admit that the case is hopeless, and say that 500,000 troops might bo made quickly available to establish that mucti talked of barrier from the Baltic to the Black sea by co-operation between Poland and Rumania, backed by allied support. Still Matter of Controversy. This estimate ofi 500,000 Includes three Polish divisions, still in France, whose landing rights at Dantzig continue to be a matter of controversy. Other forces which the French would use against the westward spread of tho Bolsheviki and to prevent, the effective co-operation of Russia and Germany, include the Poles, French, Italian, English and Greek troops of the old Saloniki expedition, now pretty well scattered through the Balkans. But, while they contend that their military mili-tary plan would be successful as the only possible solution, the French have little hope that England and America will agree with them as to any extension of military mili-tary operations anywhere. Wilson Is Quoted. President Wilson has been quoted as saying in a recent conversation that It would be as sensible to try to prevent the air from going through a sieve as to try-to try-to check Bolshevism with troops. Lloyd George cllrgs to the belief that sooner or later tho allies have got to confer with tho Bolsheviki. French criticism no longer names Individual Indi-vidual peacemakers or separato nations, but that criticism is grow ii-g in volume, taking the ground that tho t'.elay in Paris ever what it calls unessential, or at least untimely, things has come dangerously near to making wcild peace impossible for a long time to come. The situation in Hungary furnishes a prolific text. It is called the beginning of a new war. It is also described as being be-ing to the Paris conference, what Napoleon's Napo-leon's hundred days were in Vienna. Whatever it may be ca'leri. it is attributed wholly to the delays in the peace conference. |