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Show Ferdinand at Head of Victorious Troops Is Ready to Enter Bolshevist Bolshe-vist Hungarian Capital. Bavarian Troops Capture Cap-ture Munich; Carinthia Mobilizes Legions to Meet the Jugo-Slavs. VIENNA, May 2. King Ferdinand Ferdi-nand of Rumania, accompanied by French generals, Is about to enter Budapest, the capital of Hungary, at the head of his troops, a Bucharest Buchar-est dispatch to the Neue Freie Presse says. PARIS, May 2. Bavarian government gov-ernment troops captured Munich from tho communists on Thursday morning, according to advices reaching reach-ing here today. (New York Times Cable, Copyright.) LONDON, May 2. The approaching collapse of the Eela TCim government in Hungary is believed iu well-informed circles here to be due not only lo the military situation, but to the inherent rottenness of the Bolshevist regime. The Rumanian successes are important enough. On April 2G they had advanced nearly a hundred miles from their l-slarting point and had covered considerably con-siderably more than half the distance to Budapest. Ken if tliev got no further fur-ther this would definitely stavo off the greatest danger of the situation, the junetinn of the Kussian and Hungarian Bolshevists. CZECHO-SLAV TROOPS REPEL HUNGARIANS. j Mean-while, ' CzecLo-Slovak troops I have driven out tbe Hungarians who ! had invaded their territory, hut, apart j from this, Bela Kun, it appears now, : never had much chance of establishing ; himself. He made a fatal mistake when he took over the power from Karolyi of dissolving the old experienced Hungarian Hunga-rian army and creating a new red army. This has never had any definite eon-i eon-i sistency and it has been weakened rather rath-er than strengthened by embodying in it a few of the old national troops who (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) Mil 18 6001 TO OCCUPY BUDAPEST (Continued from Page One.) have mixed very bally with the Bolshevik Bol-shevik recraits. Th3 Soviets, it is true, process to act i together, but ti:cir tP-tivitics liave boon marked by timbiity and i rrcsoiution, and they are acutely conscious that large sections of the peasants and" bourgeoisie bour-geoisie are hostile to them. APPEALS FOR AID TO RUSS RADICALS. To strengthen himself. Bela Kiln imported im-ported from foscow. Szaiiinmelty, a deputv of Lenine. and : number of Bolshevist Bol-shevist agents. They started in a Budapest Buda-pest school for in-truetioii in the pure gospel of Bolshevism and bean an ae-tive ae-tive propaganda amouiz the local Soviets. Sovi-ets. A frroup of the international array was formed in Budapest and enrolled specially selected Hungarian volunteers. Id this way Hungarian Bolshevism, which was at first a nationalist movement, move-ment, has become in fact a mere branch of the international agitation directed by Lenine. Xow the end seems near. Kuu's au-. thority prows steadily weaker, his red army shows signs of disintegration aud many of the trained Szeckler troops have actually joined the .Rumanians in the advance on Budapest. The peasants are definitely opposed to the Kim regime re-gime and its fall seems absolutely certain. |