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Show SOCIALISTS PROTEST SLAUGHTER OF REDS PKRUN. Tuesday. Dec. 23. Appeals to world workers, especially Socialists in the United Stales. Kngland. France and Italy, asking that those governments take steps to stop the alleged "slaughter-' of communists com-munists and Socialists in Hungary are being sent out by the central government board of the Austrian Social Democracy, it is asserted that whereas five hundred victims were charged np to the Hela Kun regime in Hungary, more than ten times that number have been executed on conviction con-viction at drumhead court martial on "fiimsv warrants" issued with alleged connivance con-nivance of Admiral llorthy, in command of the Hungarian government troops at present. Entente governments are jointly responsible re-sponsible for present occurrences, the appeal ap-peal declares. They diligently sought to protect bourgeoisie from the "red terror," it is said, but they are "not making any effort to halt the counter revolutionary ranipage." The Vorwaerts is Informed that an entente en-tente commission recently found the bodies bod-ies of sixty-two communists hanging from trees in a patch of woods near Budapest. |