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Show RUMANIANS STIR UP EXCITEMENT Proclamation Issued by Hungarians Hun-garians Calls Workers to Prepare for War. LONDON, April 21 Bela Kun, Hungarian Hun-garian foreign minister accompanied by other members of the government, has left for the fron'. according to a Rnrianonl ,iin:Lieh to the Exchange Telegraph company to take command Rumanians Cause Excitement BUDAPEST, Via Amsterdam, April' 21. (By the Associated Press) The! news of a Rumanian advance has caused intense excitement. After vehement ve-hement speeches at meetings of the soldiers and workmen's council Saturday Sat-urday the government issued a series' of impassioned appeals to the public to arm itself and complete the revo-lutlon revo-lutlon which is declared to be in gTeat peril. A proclamation to the munition workers says that every factory now must work only for the front; there must be no holidays and no rest. All reserve officers and soldiers have been ordered to Join the red army Immediately Im-mediately All private telephone i vice in Budapest has been suspended, and all cafes will be closed al ien o'clock in Lhe morning until further not ice. The loreien minister Itehi Kun ro- i ferring to the exchange of notes with General Smuts, the entente envoy, said at a mass meeting. 'We were disinclined again to sac-rifice sac-rifice our liberated proletariat brothers broth-ers in a neutral zone to the yoke of capitalism because it would mean making mak-ing lhe physical life of the Hungarian proletariat impossible. "We have no detailed information as to what has been don.- al Tan- tui we know that an offensive has been launched by the dominating power in Rumania with the forces it Ims been able to mobilize against tho Hungar ian republic. At first we thought the entente intended to establish line Ol demarkation indicated by General Smuts and Vix. (chief of the allied military mission), respectively and to go no further. Today however, the situation Js such that we must presume the entente will take the offensive against us with all its available Strength, that the entente has condemned con-demned us to the fate of the Paris commune and thai the entente's imperialism im-perialism now intends absolutely to throttle us." There were exclamations of "never!" "nev-er!" The Czech front," continued the foreign minister, "has not yet begun to move; neither has tho southern front. But 1 do not know whether at this very moment an advance has not begun on these fronts and If this does not happen today it may occur tomorrow. tomor-row. Nobody need despair; only I must say that regarding the armament and equipment also we are badly off, for the war equipment was In such Impossible state when we took It over that there can be no question whatever what-ever of our being able to develop any big military action." Bela Kun continued by saying that hints had been received from certain Circles that if the proletariat would at least postpone socialism an entente offensive of-fensive might be avoided. He was interrupted by cries of "Never!" "If a government is established al Budapest, which would undertake to restore the system of private properly and which would subject lhe Hungarian Hungar-ian proletariat to double exploitation by entente and Hungarian capitalism then the entente offensive will not occur." he continued. "The other alternative al-ternative is action. It is necssary in that case to immediately consider what forces the enemy powers can bring against us because the territory of our country is small There are Indications Indica-tions of an international proletarian revolution but we must put forth our own strength to the utmost until ac- tlve support from that revolution has reached us.. Every proletarian who can be spared in Budapest must proceed pro-ceed to the front. If Budapest's proletariat prole-tariat is only self sacrificing enough the situation is saved and even should we be temporarily overthrown tho international revolution will continue to live and awaken us also to new were loud cheers in answer to his statement ' The proletariat of every country is I in ferment. You know what has hap pened in Vienna. There the proletariat, proletar-iat, arms in hand, is fighting for dictatorship dic-tatorship You also know that the troops the sister republic of Russia have crossed the frontiers of eastern Galicia and that part of these troops are marching on Czernowltz. Nevertheless Never-theless this is assistance which is still distant. I repeat we must rely on our 'own strength. To call this revolutionary revolu-tionary force into existence is the task which awaits ou." War Preparation LONDON, April 22 The origin of the warlike preparation in Budapesl 'are explained by the Dally .Mall's ien-na ien-na correspondent in a dispatch dated Sunday to be consternation caused in the Hungarian cabinet by the reported report-ed agreement between the Rumanians and the Szeklers, a minor race living in the Transylvanian Alps. The Szeklers Szek-lers are related to the Magyars and include thirty thousand or lorly thousand thou-sand arms bearing men. The Szeklers. says the correspondent, correspon-dent, have taken a hostile attitude against the communists to whom, it seems, their opposition is coming to a head in the country side, particularly particular-ly In Debreczin. War Commissary Bohm is believed to be in an insecure position at Deb-rezin Deb-rezin and has asked aid from Budapest, Buda-pest, according to the correspondent who says the red guard in the capital have become more aggressive and that all its membora now tarry' bombs. |