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Show C0MMISTS MEET COMPLETE OVERTHROW BERNE, April 21 After a short slego by Bavarian and Wuerttemberg troops, the communists in Llndau, on Lake Constance, have been defeated 'Duplet. Iv. according to messages received re-ceived here from the Bavarian Iron-tier Iron-tier The government which had been set up by the communists has been overthrown Llndau was the most important communist com-munist stronghold in Bavaria with the exception of Munich. VIENNA, Saturday, April 19. (By The Associated Press)-The comrnu nists, it appeared late tonight, had failed in their attempt to seize control of the government. Most of the Hungarian Hun-garian agitators In Vienna have been arrested and the arrest of Austrian agitators ag-itators has been begun Among the Hungarians under arrest Edward Steiner, a red guard officer. offi-cer. In his rooms In a leading hot I the police found more than 1,000,000 kroner as well as a large quantity of women's jewels and rings, and fifty-five fifty-five gold cigarette cases The jew?lrs and money are said to have come lioru Budapest, where the red guards requisitioned re-quisitioned and nationalized prop l 1 It is declared that the Austrian government gov-ernment has requested the Hungarian government to withdraw Its minister here. Bela Kun. the Hungarian foreign minister, in a telegram to the Austrian government denies that he aided in starting the trouble here It i;, indicated in reports lief f.otu Budapest that the communist government govern-ment there is disappointed over the results ol the attempted rising here and nl"" uneasy because of the ad- ,nce of French and Russian troops In Transylvania It is said that certain members of the Budapest soviet have airplanes in readiness for night in case the situation becomes ecrious for them. The Austrian government, in an appeal ap-peal to the communists in Vienna, declares de-clares that if they continue their efforts ef-forts thev will bring about the total ruin of Austria and probably cut off the food supply, to say nothing of allied al-lied occupation. The communists reply re-ply that there has always been enough food for the proletariat, while if the well-to-do starve it Is of no consequence conse-quence to the proletariat. |