RED TERROR IN BUDAPEST

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 245, 10 July 1919, Page 5

RED TERROR IN BUDAPEST

INEVITABLE RESULT OF BOLSHEVISM BLOOD-THIRSTY STEP BY BELA EON By TeleEttioli—Press Association-Oonvrisrht . (Rec. July 10, 0.55 a.m.} London, July 5. Tho red terror, the inevitable accompaniment of Bolshevism, has broken out in Budapest. Bela Kun., in a message to Vienna, states that he has ordered tho revolutionary tribunals now to work with the fullest severity. No mercy will be shown. He signed death warrants today for all counter-revolutionary .leaders, principally ex-officers. "I intend to wipe out opposition with blood," lie ioys. Bela Kun claims that "Hungarian Sovietism is firmly established, but admits that the counter-movement has attained violence—United Service. . HUNGARIAN REDS RETIRE TO PRESCRIBED FRONTIERS. (Rec. July 9, 9.25 p.m.) London, July 5. : Telegrams _ from Copenhagen report that Be.a Kun's troops are in complete retirement in AV-estern Slovakia to tho frontiers laid down by the Peaie Conference. Tho Czecho-Slovaks have occupied the evacuated territory.—"The Times." RI)SSIA'S~AWAKENING London, JuJy 8. The "Westminster Gazette" states that the Russian Government at Moscow permits private trading of foodstuffs and other articles. The dream of communism has failed. Bread is no\v selling at twenty-two roubles, instead of sixty. The "Star" reports that the Bolsheviki havc_ occupied all the embassies and legations in Petrograd. They seized tho archives and handed over those in charge to an extraordinary commission as spies against the Soviet Government.' —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PLANS TO ATM PETROGRAD AFFIRMED BY. THE BIG FIVE. Paris, July 8. The Council of Five lias approved of the plans of the Finns and Admiral Kolchak to attack Petrograd.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Washington, July 8. I There is definite information'that the Bolsheviki are about to evacuate Petro-grad.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.