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Show t BELA KUN RESIGNS DICTATORSHIP 1 HUNGARIAN LEADER BOWS TO DEMANDS j OF ALLIED COUNCIL VIENNA. Friday, Aug. 1 , by The Associated Press. Bela Kun, the Hungarian communist dictator, has resigned and been succeeded by a Socialist government, according to a tele-r tele-r I phone message from Budapest. On receipt of news from the front that created consternation consterna-tion in Budapest. Kun at a meeting of the soviet Socialists became be-came pale of face and with his back, to the wall, declared: 1 "V ery well. If you demand it, I must resign. I made the best fight I could." Captain Thomas C. Gregory, the United States food ad-, ad-, ministrator in this region, is credited with a large share in th hastening of Bela Kun's retirement. Captain Gregory arranged tonight for food relief for Budapest. He is bringing up supplies from the Banat region I and also sending them down the Danube from Austria. 5 , VIENNA, Aug. 2, by The Associated Press. Overture -for peace with the allies have been made by the new Socialist government of Hungary which has been set up in succession ito the Bela Kun regime. Bela Kun, who resigned his virtual dictatorship, has been furnished a safe conduct by the allies and is expected to seek refuge here, as it is felt that his life would be endangered if he remained in Budapest. The peace overtures were made by Jacob Weltner. president presi-dent of the soldiers' and workers' soviet of Hungary. Arriving in Vienna from Budapest, Hcrr Weltner asked Colonel Cunningham, Cun-ningham, the leading representative of the allies at Vienna, and the other allied officials here, to recognize the new government govern-ment and to treat for peace. K The new Hungarian cabinet is presided over bv Jules E Peidll. vho was formerly minister of the people's walfare in the Count Karolyi cabinet. The cabinet contains provisionally provisional-ly many members of the former Bela Kun ministry. COPENHAGEN. Friday. Aug. 1 . A dispatch from Budapest today announces that a purely Socialistic government govern-ment has been formed under the leadership of Herr Peidll The new government has issued a manifesto, the advices de-K de-K clare. saying that its chief tasks will be to preserve international internation-al order and enter into negotiations with the Entente. LONDON, Aug. 2. A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-M Tele-M graph company from Copenhagen says it is officially reported 1 from Budapest that the government of Bela Kun has resigned. The trades' union have formed a Socialist government, the J dispatch adds. - Report Erroneous. BERNE, An". 2 The announee-1 announee-1 luent of rhr. impending resignation of m the Austrian ministry, received here M lroin Vienna Thursday, was erron. oils, it has developed. A mistake, in m the transmission of the diapa,tch from Vienna was responsible. The mes Bagc originated In Belgrade, it appears, ap-pears, and referred to the Serbo-Croat ion minist rv The dispatch ret erred to in the fore-zonz fore-zonz was received in Berne from Vlnna .July u stated that the Austrian cabinet had decided to re-8'n re-8'n a similar message reaching M London via Berne said It had been ; semi officially announeed that the cab-ine. cab-ine. reached the decision to resign l B a meeting held Tuesday. Crisis Reached. VIENNA, Friday, Aug. I. (By The A Associated Press.) The crisis at Budapest was due to the combined m effect, of the allied note issued at M Paris last Sunday, warning the Hun m Sarians they must set up a truly jt representative government, and the A successful adance of the Rumanian A army. The soviet military .orces were aiu to have been reduced to 40,000 A unwilling soldiers who lacked anluia-fm anluia-fm 'ion and who were harassed by the ,J Kuerilla warfare of peasants. This A force was thoroughly defeated today The Hungarians were said to ljave A surrendered or fled when. -Rumanian A division crosed th Ttiela rier. The ,1 Rumanians crosed the river TheilB ai Tisza-Pured. They also took Szolnok, tutting the Budapest railway. Stragglers from the soviet army 4 brought the news of the Rumanian advance. They sid the enemy forces f vore only 25 miles trom the capital. I j Hungarian refugees here held a p celebration tonight over the downfall of communism. Officials here said the reconstruction of the Hungarian gov- ernment was expected to improve the situation In Austria, lessening the danger of disorders. KUN'S RETIREMENT. VIENNA, Thursday. Julv 31. (By The Associated Press.) The resignation resigna-tion of Bela Kun from ihe Hungarian go ernment wai effected this afternoon after-noon Hjs retirement was precipi'a'-ed precipi'a'-ed by the Rumanian successes along the river Theiss and the rout of the Hungarian Red army. COPENHAGEN, Aug 2 The strictest strict-est martial law is being enforced in Budapest by Ihe war ministry in the new government, Joseph Haubrich, advices ad-vices from the Hungarian capital to-da to-da states The city Is reported quiet. NEW CABINET. ENNA, Aug. 2. (By the Associated Associat-ed Press The new cabinet is made I up as follows . Premier Jules Peidll. Minister of foreign affairs Peter Agoston. Minister of war Joseph Haubrich. Minister of jutsice- -Paul Carami. Minister of welfare Alexander Gar-j bai. Minister of commerce M DOVOhalL. Minister of education Stephan I Szabo. Minister of home affairs Karl 1 Payer. Minister of agriculture Joseph1 Takaos. 1 Minister of finance Joseph Miskics. Minister of food M. Knittelhofer. Premier Peidll is said to be a cour-j ageousman of simple habits. He has been . typographer, an editor and a model worker. Minister of Wax Haubrich formerly was chief of police at Budapest and is reputed to be an an: I c ommunist Minister of Justice Garaml and Minister Min-ister of Education Szabo were in the Karolyi cabinet. Persons in touch with the situation at Budapest said it was their understanding under-standing that the members of the Kun ministry holding over under the reconstruction recon-struction was doing so In order to save themselves and their supporters and they probably would not remain In office long. , t |