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Show BAVARIANS ARE RESTORING ORDER Ministry Resumes Control ol Munich and Delegates to Diet Returning. ASSEMBLY TO MEET Much Plundering of Towns and Bitter Fights With Communists. LONDON. April 22 The military situation in Bavarfa is improing. according ac-cording to announcements made by I h Hoffman ministry. The Sparta I Ides, who took the town of Pachau. in mil' - northwest of Munich, by violating violat-ing the armistice with the govrrnra. nf troops, have been repulsed and th" government forces are now holding the plaee. Reinforcements are moving mov-ing toward Munich from Ingolstadt. The Hoffman ministry, which re ! sumed control of the capital Sundry, following the collapse of the soviet government, is feverishly active. Defecates Defe-cates to the diet are arriving daily and the assembly will meet soon Communist leaders are making earnest earn-est overtures to the peoples of southern south-ern Bavaria and are sending ageuts through the countrv making an especial espe-cial appeal for the support of women There is much plundering of own in Bavaria, according to reports, aud at places bitter fights have occurred between the communists and the bourgeoisie. At Rosenberg ten ucf-tages ucf-tages have been shot and a fine of S5.000 marks has been imposed upon the city because of its lapse from communism. From Augsburg comes a report that, the radical trend there is again increasing and there is prob ability that the city will return to the soviet B stem. Bela Kun Downed VIENNA, April 2. (Correspondence of the Associated Press) Bela Kiln, the Hungarian communist leader, (Whose downfall is reported in today's dispatches), first attracted public notice no-tice in Vienna in the days of the declaration dec-laration of the German-Austrian republic re-public here Kun who appears not older than 25 years and is a devoted admirer of Lcnine and Bolshevism, made a spectacular appearance in this capital. Dressed in a uniform with stripes on his sleeves, indicating that he was a college student, he .drove daily through the streets of Vienna in :m onen motor taxi dlsnlavin a huge red flag and inviting the people to form a Red guard for the purpose of overthrowing the newly formed Republican Re-publican government. In his speeches Kun said that the fact that the Socialistic leaders had shown their willingness to co-operate with the bourgeoisie proved that labor must take matters into its own bands and that its only salvation would be sovielism. He succeeded at the time in gathering a small army which he called the Red guard. Red Guards in Possession While the new republican j-overn-nient was forming the national guard. Bela Kun's Red guards took possession posses-sion of some of the leading newspapers . by means of w hic h he believed he could persuade the masses to join his party. In the meantime, the police, however, had placed themselves at the I disposal of the newly formed government, govern-ment, and Bela Kun's forces were oustl d and some of them arrested. A few days later the new govern mcnt decided to call a meeting at the house of parliament in the course ot wuich representatives of all parties officially of-ficially recognized German-Austria as a republic. It was on this occasion 'that with the assistance of his newly 1 formed Red guard, Bela Kun Iricd 1o force his way into parliament and make the legislators his prisoners while the house was in session. There was considerable shooting and his attempt at-tempt was frustrated by the national guard of the republic. Kun was promptly arrested and be-ing be-ing a Hungarian subject was expelled in mi Austria. Finding that Ihe majority ma-jority of the masses in Vienna refused to accepi his Bolshevik ideas, he took advantage ot conditions in Hungary where he succeeded in carrying out his plans. A. tack on Munich LONDON, April 22 An attack on Munich by Wuertteruburg t roops launched under cover of artillery fire from all around tbe city i:- reported In B Geneva dispatch forwarded by the Exchange Telegraph correspondent in Paris. The date of the reported attack Is not indicated, but the message apparently appar-ently is a belated one. Munich advices ad-vices received in London Monday reported re-ported the collapse of the .soviet gov ernment in Munich to have occurred Saturday night. no |