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Show Resignation of Soviet Government Is Demand De-mand ; New Election Under Entente Eyes. Lenine Sends Draft of Proposed Constitution; Measures Are Taken to Protect Foreigners. LONDON, March 29. The allies have demanded the resignation of the Hungarian Hun-garian soviet government, according to dispatches to the Exchange Telegraph company by way of Berlin and Copenhagen. Copen-hagen. They demand the election of a .national assembly under the supervision of allied troops. Foreign Minister Bela Kun has issued a decree extending the protection of the Hungarian "soviet republic" to the foreign for-eign military missions in Budapest, a Hungarian wireless dispatch received here today says. The missions will be permitted to fly the flags of their respective re-spective countries over their headquarters. headquar-ters. LENINE FORWARDS DRAFT OF PROPOSED SOVIET BASIC LAW Pa'riS, March 29. Premier Lenine of Russian soviet government has sent to the Hungarian constitutional commission a draft of a proposed constitution for Hungary, according to a Vienna dispatch transmlted by the Zurich correspondent of L'lnformation. No definite information has been received re-ceived here regarding the status of the allied missions at Budapest. A dispatch from Rome asserts that the missions have been neither interned nor expelled, but have simply been requested to abstain ab-stain from communicating with their governments gov-ernments until the new Hungarian government gov-ernment has been firmly established. According to the Paris edition of the Daily Mail, Colonel Vlx, the chief of the French mission, has telegraphed that he had been released and was proceeding to Paris. NEWSPAPERS USED TO STRENGTHEN GRIP OF SOVIET LEADERS BUDAPEST, Friday, March 28. (By the Associated Press,) Since the establishment estab-lishment of a communist government In Hungary the newspapers of Budapest have .dispensed with the formerly obligatory ob-ligatory publication of the names of the owners, publishers and responsible writers. writ-ers. The editorial staffs of each newspaper have elected new managers, who also will represent the members in deliberations delibera-tions of the workmen's and soldiers' council. The journalists and writers also have organized a council of their own which was recognized by the government. govern-ment. Concessions to the newspaper men of the same prerogatives as the workmen work-men in other trades and professions are made by the government in " respect to the improvement of salaries, the apportionment ap-portionment of food, clothing and other necessities. The theaters, vaudeville houses and motion picture places have been taken over by the minister of education, who will supervise the editing of theater programs, pro-grams, which also will be made to serve as an organization of political enlightenment. enlighten-ment. Classical dramas and modern plays of the higher type make up the bulk of the offerings In the theaters under un-der the new regime. Religious Instruction has been eliminated elimi-nated from' the courses in the public schools and political and social topics substituted. Strikes Extending in Austria. COPENHAGEN, March 29. The strike in Austria was extended on Friday to the Northern railway and as a consequence conse-quence traffic between Vienna and the outside world is almost at a standstill, according to Vienna, advices received here. It is said that if the holding up of food trains continues today, the bread ration will be reduced by one-half everywhere every-where next week. Reports received here state that employees on the state railroads rail-roads have also struek, but add that negotiations between the government and the railroad men's union continue. The railway strike in German Austria has been settled, a report from Vienna says. A strike of railway workers in German Ger-man Austria was called We: nesday. A dispa ;eh from Vienna on Frin-iy indicated indi-cated that the strike was partly in sympathy sym-pathy with the Hungarian revolution. No Change in Military Plans. WASHINGTON, March decent events in Hungary, General Ma rch announced an-nounced today, have resulted in no chance in the military policy of the rr.Ued States, so far as the w;tr department depart-ment has been advised. Return of troons from France is proceeding even faster than scheduled ontrtnaliy, he said, and nothinc had occurred to interfere with tiiis movement Troop movements homeward riurir.c the mouth of March. General March s;i:d. a cur" Tate-- ?-J4.i.'s, ncai:. t an e.-:ima : e 1 (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) ALLIES ASK RED RULERS TO GET OPT f Continued from Page One.) previously made for the month of 200,000. Mission Is Released. BASEL, March 29. The Hungarian government has released member? of the Ukrainian mission arrested at Budapest, Buda-pest, restored property belonging to the mission valued at 1,000,000 crowns and made an apology to Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian press bureau here. The Ukrainian government entered a protest following the arrest of Us mission at the Hungarian capital. Workman in King's Box. COPENHAGEN, March 29. With a factory official, his wife and two other women in the former king's box at the National Opera house in Budapest, proletarian pro-letarian control of the theaters, with reduced re-duced prices for the workers, was entered upon Friday, according to a dispatch from the Hungarian capital. Short introductory addresses were delivered de-livered before the performance at the National Opera house, the commissary of agriculture speaking on the relationship between art and the proletariat. ' |