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Show HP German-Austrian Conditions Con-ditions Now Threatening, Threaten-ing, Vienna Advices Say ; Arrest Wekerle . Allied Mission Members Reported Interned in Budapest; Martial Law Rules in Capital City. BEENE, Monday, March 24. The Bolshevik army, which is on its way to Hungary, has reached Brody, according to the latest news received hero. Brody is about fifty miles east, of Lemberg. PARIS, March 25. (By the Associated Press.) The conditions in Hungary seem to have affected German Austria. Advices Ad-vices to the American peace conference delegates from private agents in Vienna indicate the existence of a threatening state of affairs there. 1 One of these agents who has just come from Vienna reports that even the date has been fixed for some time in April for the transformation of the existing government into a soviet government which will cooperate or merge with the government of the Hungarian soviet. The Hungarians are credited with aiming aim-ing to seize the portion of the former Austrian fleet held by the Jugo-Slavs. FORMER PREMIER WEKERLE ARRESTED BY RED LEADERS PARIS, March 25. The new Hungarian communistic government has arrested XJr. Alexander Wekerle, former premier and finance minister, a dispatch from Budapest Buda-pest says. The Russian soviet government, according accord-ing to the Matin, sent a message to Budapest Buda-pest asking the new soviet government there to detain the French military mission. mis-sion. The Russian authorities, .it was announced, desiVed this action with a view to bringing about the exchange of this French mission for a soviet mission mis-sion which, the Russian soviet authorities authori-ties alleged, had been held by the French at Saloniki. ALLIED MISSION MEMBERS REPORTED AS BEING INTERNED VIENNA, Monday, March 24. (By the Associated Press.) All members of the allied missions In Budapest have been Interned, In-terned, including Colonel Vix, the chief of the French mission, according to travelers trav-elers arriving here by automobile from tne Hungarian capital. Except for official messages there is no communication by telephone between Budapest and Vienna. , PARIS1, Monday, March 24. (By the Associated Press.) Unofficial reports from Budapest state that allied missions there are debating the advisability of leaving and that the disarmament of French troops in the city is being considered. con-sidered. Order prevails and no injury has as yet been done foreigners. American representatives are being assured protection protec-tion and may be asked to remain, It is . said. Martial law has been declared and the death penalty has been prescribed for armed resistance to the Bolsheviki, for robbery and. looting. A fine of 5000 crownS has been fixed for the sale of alcoholic liquor and a fine of 10,000 crowns for drinkinc it. The British monitors are reported have arrived at Budapest, having hav-ing been under fire on their way up the Danube. Other British and French vessels ves-sels are near at hand. A British patrol boat was seized by the authorities, but was returned with apologies by the government. gov-ernment. It is saiii that rumors that Hungary has declared war on Rumania. Czecho-rirovakia and Jugo-Slavia are ex-tretnelv ex-tretnelv doubtful. Six hundred Hungarians' Hun-garians' who have been prisoners of war in Russia are said to be returning daily across the Carpathians, bink' under the influence of Bolshevik doctrines. LEMBERG STILL IN POLISH HANDS, DESPITE REPORTS ! PARI. March 25. The city of I.em-I I.em-I berp. recently reported captured by tiie Vkrs irilans from the Tolcs. still is in Pel'.sh hands, accordimr to Yaida Voevod, ' a Russian cabinet member. In an interview inter-view pubilshC'i In the Matin. The Rumanian minisir made this statement state-ment in the cours of a taik reirardimr what he considered to te alms V the Russian-t'kralnlan-H'tnCiirian - Rolshevlk alliance whi.-h ccs developed wi'.mn the i l;.st. few nays. Thi? aim was, he cou-I cou-I sidered. tn storm the remainimr centers lot' entente resistance to Ho'.sbe. ism ar-.d secure its penetration into, western l-.u-i rope. It womd not require a p-a. e .or: to frustrate this plan. M. Voevo.l c--!are.1. He pointed on-, that it had a, ready met wis'" a series. s set. sick its the nro; r-ssstance r-ssstance of the I'oles as I.em.e-c. V :;.-n she Magyars .Jejjc' d J'J'J.": (Continued on Page S, Column 2.) BOLSHEVIK DPjDERS REACH II FIELDS ' (Continued from Page One.) lot with the "Bolslieviki, he said, they ! based their hopes on the 'false news of I the fall of Leu i her;.?, whieh city was j still in the hands of the l'oh-s. I 'J'he liaison between the Ukrainian and the Hungarian forces was still a most j precarious cue, he poin ted out, and the I abies should take advantage of t lie situation situ-ation and adopt energetic measure.0. "The Polish -Rumanian barrier, whieh isolates Europe from oriental Bolshevism," the minister declared, "must be fetified first of ail. ' SOVIET CLAIMS DECLARED TO BE LARGELY FICTION COPENHAGEN, March 25. The claims of th Hungarian soviet government to power as set forth in its wireless communications, com-munications, are largely untrue, accord -I ing to a Vienna dispatch to the Aehtuhr j Ahendblatt. A panic prevails in Budapest, Buda-pest, but the country, it is declared, lias not yet resolved upon a soviet republic. The reported voluntary surrender ot arms by French soldiers in Budapest because be-cause the mdn were alleged to be infected in-fected with Bolshevism is incorrect, the message states. There is a rumor .that the! entente commission com-mission at Budapest has been detained by the i I ung;i ri:ins. The capital, it is added, h;is been scaled by the government against foreign eount.ries. Tin- correspondent says that the ru-nii.M-i d advance of Russian soviet irpops toward 1 ! uugary under (.1 .moral Cb.-orgy lias no fourdaiioii. iie add.--. 'th.U t lie report received from 1. Tcid t chev:. th Molsnevik fni-eiL'n inlnister, on I lie mili-tiir- situatnui of the Kiissinn soviet gov-ermneu gov-ermneu t great ly disappointed tiie IJuu-gai IJuu-gai ian government. Capital Js Lively. Inscribing the' evenls pre-ediiit: the revolution, eyewitnesses wlio have reaci,c(i .Vienna from Budapest rer orr i hiit lite streets in the II unga n -;i pi tal were ery lively Friduy afternoon. There were l;'.:e crowds on all the slr et cornel's cor-nel's a nd proci'si-jonK were in progress. The shops or e hastily closed. V hen tlie tcnsifui was at its hines;. heavily armed soldiers appeared and announced 'hat Count Knroi had just resiled as the iiead cf t he uo'ernmcnL. An official sf.aT"ment from Budapest, da t I'd .Monday, standi 1' i, deciared t hat reports from the provinces s! lowed 1 hat peace and order were prevailing. "In most of the large towns the Socialists Social-ists have taken over the ad ministry tion." 1 lie s;a lament con t in nes. "A peasants' council has been f. rmed at Kecskemet a.nd ii revolutionary government b.as been :niied a t Kassa, which has been occupied occu-pied by the Czechs, according to the government gov-ernment com missary's telephone." FALL OF KAROLYI GOVERNMENT DUE TO MANY CAUSE PARIS. Monday. March 24. In official circles here the fall of t he T arolyi government gov-ernment in Hungnry is ascribed In both intern;! 1 ami txt ernal causes. Interna I ly, it is known that tho extremists have been stendily increasing in power from , the davof the lirnbsticc- Chi th'..- other hand, wi tli regard to externa 1 relations, j the ea rly hope of I! unga.ry for a. rap-j rap-j proclienicnt with the allies had not been realized until lecemlv. Two events likewise like-wise occurred which are felt to have direct hearings on the crisis. The first, was tiv order hv the allies thatHhe Hun- Marians withdraw to the Rumanian boundary boun-dary fixed bv the Rumanian treaty of R)fG. The ls;tc.und was the allied order to deovor 'to the Czecho-.SlnvaUs their privately owneil ships on the Danube. It was known herethat Count Karol-yi's Karol-yi's opou'Mits wfrre prepared to take draslic ae'i'.l: in tht event that these exneeted orders actually were issued, and Karolvi himsii' had declared that ho would surreiaier the government in such circumstances. STARVATION FEAR PREVENTS COUNCIL FROM JOINING REDS YIEXXA. Sunday. March 23. (By the Associated Press.) A dispatch to the iN cue Freie Pi esse says that the British-French British-French mission at Budapest, consisting of 24i) men. has been disarmed ana that a wir&css message has been sent to Nikolai Lenine, the Russian Bolshevik premier, n nnouneiner that the entente missions have left Budapest. The message mes-sage added: 'French iroons. filtered by Bolsheviki, have been disarmed by us. Mutinies have .occurred in some French regiments." regi-ments." The. executive committee of the workmen's work-men's council of Gorman Austria, replying reply-ing to the proclamation of the Hungarian nrolet--u,iac. savs it. too, is "of the opinion opin-ion that after ihe collapse of imperialism imperial-ism in Genoa u v and Aus! ria-Hungary, the imijcrialist victors are our chief enemies. ene-mies. If the Paris conference seeks to offer violence to entire nations and violates vio-lates the ritiht of self-determination it will meet with determined resistance from the workingmen. "Tjnfortunatelv. your appeal to ur to t'd'-uv vour cxamt.de cannot be complied with, f.'i' the cuuitte bus cut off our I u polios. We would starve before the ' Russian Soviets could help us. "Yc, therefore, are in a wu-se pus it ion than yi hi. as we are completely dependent upon tho entente." SAYS KAROLYI WAS LONG IN PARLEYS WITH RUSS LEADERS PARIS. March L". Budapest dispatches sav that ','uunt Michael Karulyi, former premier uf lluugarv. h;is Int en negotiating with tlie Moscow soviet novi-rnir.ent since last September through Uadovsky, the Bolshevik leader in Ukraine, with" the object of mire-ducing Bolshevism into Hungary, Rumania and J ugo-Siavia. "li umar i :a, wh ich ts the hist rampart against Bolshevism, is seriously threatened threat-ened hv I"in.0"ti Russian Bolshevik troops and 'i Hungarian divisions," the dispatcli sa vs. "The allies should rush men. munitions and food there, for every hour lost may have serious consequences." conse-quences." . Dispatches received at Bern say that Nikolai Ben inc. the Russian Bolshevik premier, intends to send a delegation to confer with M. Pogany, who Is said to be the "iVal ruling chief of Hungary." The tinman ans and ( '.echo -Slovaks are reported t be mobilizing troops. Result of Blindness. BAS1.F. Switzerland, March 25. The Hungarian commissioner for military affairs, af-fairs, savs a Budapest dispatch today, has issued a n order instructing all soldiers sol-diers to reioin their units. Count Karoiyi. in taking farewell of tlie Be Kinkoy cabinet on Sunady, is quoted as savins: "What has happened is a natural result of the blindness and ill-will ill-will with which it was sought to assassinate assas-sinate Humrary." He added he would support the leaders of the people and was willinc to work and serve as a private soldier. Kramarz Denies Report. 1 PARIS. March 25. (Ilavas.) The Paris newspapers print with reserve a German wireless message stating that Premier Kramarz and. the other members of the C.ech-Slovak cabinet have resigned. re-signed. Dr. Kramarz. who is in Paris in attendance at-tendance at the peace conference, declaresin de-claresin an interview in the Matin that he knows nothing about any su,ch resignations. res-ignations. He had no intention of abandoning aban-doning his post, he said. A Copenhagen dispatch relayed a report re-port from Berlin that President Masaryk of Czee ho -Slovakia had resigned. No mention was made In this dispatch oi any cabinet resignations. j Drastic Order Is Issued. I VIENNA. Monday. March 24. (By the I Associated Press.) The Hungarian Peo-1 Peo-1 pie's commissary for socialisation nas ordered or-dered tlie immediate closing of all stores except food, drug and tobacco shops and has directed that no foods shall be removed re-moved from places under this ban. Offenders Of-fenders will be liable to incur the death penalty, it is said. "Movement of Despair." WASHINGTON. March 25. General Sir Frederick Maurice, former director of military operations, who is here on a lecture tour, declared today, that while he thought peace should be completed speedily, he did not believe extensive military operations would result from the Bolshevik movement in Hungary and elsewhere. Hungary, he said. Is so exhausted ex-hausted that a war of magnitude within the next ten vears is impossible. The Hungarian situation, in the opinion opin-ion of General Maurice, is "a movement of despair, dictated by hunger at present and uncertainty for the future." Will Support Government. VTHNNA. Monday. March 24. (By the Associated Press.) A dispn ten to the Neue Freie Presse declares that all the non-Socialist parties, in Hungary will support the new trovernment, for tlie reason, rea-son, it is said, that it has decided' to act against the entente. The rural population popula-tion is reported to have gone over to the communists, Declared Political Move. PRAGUH. 'March 2, Monday. In political po-litical circles here it is declared that the recent Happenings in Budapest had long since been arranged by Count Karoiyi. who surrendered his office of provisional president in favor of the proletariat pro-letariat government. This change f government, it is declared in i hose circles, cir-cles, was a polit icat maneuver. M as-ciue.radincr as-ciue.radincr under the name of a soviet regime, the Hun ear ian government, it is contended, is iea!ly standing for naiiol-alism. naiiol-alism. chau ven ism a nd the M ungaria n idea which has always inspired all tho Hungarian go merriments. In view of t his cap it al lb esc governments govern-ments have only one objective, the dnin- , illation of Hungarian races o"er all the others. "Reforms'' Are Instituted. AMSTERDAM.. March '25. The now Hungarian government at its first meeting meet-ing Saturday, says a dispatch from Budapest, Buda-pest, decided to abolish all title of rank, to separate tlie church and state and to dismiss ail commissioners of the Karoiyi government. while inviting workmen's councils to select directorates of four members each to replace them. The formation for-mation of revolutionary courts was decided de-cided upon and the council ordered the people's commissioners to take over 'all homes, businesses and art treasures in private hands. SOVIET RULE IS QUIETLY ACCEPTED BY HUNGARIANS f , (New York Times Cable, Copyright.) ROTTERDAM, March 24 (delayed). According to news reaching Berlin today from Budapest and telephone here, Hungary's Hun-gary's transition to the soviet form of government is taking place in an orderly manner. AH ort hodox socialistic groups have thrown in their lot with tlie movement. move-ment. The so-called "Christian Socialists," Social-ists," representing the moderate trade union organizations, have also accepted the communist program and tlie bourgeois bour-geois parties have offered to assist the government in so far as the national defense de-fense is concenil. Further, the snoil farmers, who up to now had disowned the socialist ideas, have announced their unity with wiiat appears really to be a national movement. move-ment. The general feeling at Budapest is said to be very optimistic, as substantial substan-tial help from the Russian soviet gov- ernment is expected ; but as opposed to this the opinion of the Berlin correspondent correspon-dent of the Courant 'telephones that in Berlin Lenine's roply fcb the new Hun garian leaders is regarded as very r. ;r served in tone. |