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Show B0LSHEVIK1 OR RUMANIANS. I In Budapest, a month ago. the Bol-fchevikl Bol-fchevikl were in control and the aristocrats aristo-crats were living in the collars while I the servants received guests in the parlors. Today the Rumanian army is policing the Hungarian city, and a dispatch says the janitors have moved back to the basements and once more approach their employers, hat in hand, to seek Instructions. But the Hungarian upper class is in desperate straits. The Bolsheviki humiliated the employers and the Rumanians Ru-manians have been looting their Vi homes As to the Rumanian invasion, a Budapest dispatch says: "Not a red flag is to be ten. and all i red placards are gone. The Ruma- nians arc disarming every one, searching search-ing particularly the quarters of the communists and the rooms of the work-ingmen's work-ingmen's council. There is plenty of booty. The occupation, however, distasteful dis-tasteful It may be to the Hungarians, who hate the Rumanians, is regarded as having been absolutely essential because be-cause on the other side of the Danube detachments of the red army are still intact which might form the nucleus of a new formation with even a stronger strong-er nationalistic spirit. Moreover, across the Danube are guns and much material saved by the reds, including most of the batteries of 305s. The Rumanians Ru-manians have seized the wireless sta-Uon sta-Uon and have slopped all trains and electric cars, except In the heart of the city. This measure works a rpl hardship, because no food is arriving and the city worker! are unable to return re-turn to their suburban homes. The food situation is desperate, although there iB promise tht American railroad rail-road trains will soon be running with revlctualment from Flume," Everywhere in Europe the hope of relief is in the direction of America. |