Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1919 — ALLIES OPEN ON BOLSHEVIK! [ARTICLE]

ALLIES OPEN ON BOLSHEVIK!

NEW WAR BEGINS WITH ALLIES MARCHING ON 70,000 REDS.

Amsterdam, March 24.—Bolshevism is spreading throughout Bosnia, Croatia and Slavonia. Armed peasants and workmen are battling with Serbs. Communists have occupied the banks and many newspaper offices throughout Hungary. Liberation of Karl Radek, the Russian Bolshevist agitator, by the Berlin authorities is confirmed. Copenhagen, March 24.—A dispatch from Budapest says the soviet government has occupied all the theaters and music halls and arranged for revolutionary plays and addresses on the significance of the revolution. London, March 24.—The armed forces of the new republic of Czechoslovakia were hurled into the breachto stem the tide of Bolshevism which is sweeping toward the west following the red uprising in Hungary. A Czecho-Sloavk army has been sent aganst Hungary, according to an official report from Vienna. This dispatch also announced that Thomas G. Masaryk, President of Czecho-Slovakia, had resigned. M coving against the Czecho-Slovak forces a_ Rnlshevikarmv of 7QJMMImen had crossed the river Dniester south of Lemberg. The army is commanded by Maj. Georgy and is composed mainly of Hungarians and Bulgarians who were prisoners of war in Russia. Meanwhile , there is growing evidence that Germany is preparing to cast in her lot with Lenine. Count von Brockdor Rantzau, the German foreign minister, has sent Carl Kautsky, one of the undersecretaries in the foreign ministry to Moscow to see the chiefs of the soviet government and to furnish an accurate report of the situation, which will allow the foreign minister to study the methods as to the bringing about of closer political and economic relations with the Russian Bolshevik government, says a Zurich dispatch. Latest advices from Austria state that the Austrian Central Workmen’s Council has decided not to join the Hungarian movement. The council, it is declared, feels that such a course is impossible because it is dependent on the entente for food. Besides the Czecho-Slovaks there are few allies’ troops on hand to meet the Hungarian emergency. Dispatches yesterday said that two French divisions stationed at Petrograd had been disarmed. But this news was v not confirmed. Several Serbian divisions are at Belgrade ready to take the field, but they are reduced in strength. The Bolshevik character of the new Hungarian regime is established by the fact that Bela Kun, the foreign minister, before leaving Russia served as aid de camp to Trotzky. Meanwhile it is learned from the that negotiations have begun between Ukraine and the Russian Bolshevik delegates for the settlement of differences. Bolshevik Leader Radowsky has arrived at Ukrainian headquarters, it is reported,/