Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1919 — HUNGARY JOINS RUSSIAN REDS [ARTICLE]

HUNGARY JOINS RUSSIAN REDS

REPORTED TO BE SIGNING PEACE WITH RUSSIA TO RENEW FIGHT. Vienna, March 23.-—The Hungarian government'is reported late today to have signed a proclamation “acknowledging a state of war between Hungary and the entente powers” as a result of the decision of the Paris peace conference to occupy Hungary. ' The Karoiyi cabinet, according to latest word from Budapest, has been succeeded by a new coalition governmen, which is joining hands with the Russian troops reported to be marching into Hungary. IThe entire country has been placed under a state of siege. All Hungary’ has turned bolshevist. Cummunists and extreme Socialists dominate the new regime. Several regiments of Czecho-Slo-vaks, inspired by bolshevist propaganda, have mutinied and gone over to the Reds. They are now in Hungary. - - There is danger, according to late dispatches this evening of the red wave spreading through the ranks of the Szecho-Slovak army in the south, owing to extensive agitation carried on for months by Lenine and his lieutenants. London, March 23, —The Budapest government is reported to be signing a proclamation asknowledging a state of war between Hungary and the entente, says a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Vienna. The dispatch adds that the Czechoslovak government is preparing to issue a mobilization.