FORTY-FOUR COUNTS OF MURDER

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 101, 23 January 1935, Page 9

FORTY-FOUR COUNTS OF MURDER

Charges Against Hungarian SEQUEL TO EXECUTIONS IN BELA KUN REGIME Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.• (Received January 22, 8.40 p.m.) Budapest, January 21. Uatyas Rakosi, after serving eight years and a half for helping to create n Communist organisation as Trade Commissioner of the Bela Kun regime, now faces charges including 44 counts of murder, in connection with sentences passed during his term of office by revolutionary tribunals, also executions carried out under martial law in the same period, Rakosi is further charged with lese majeste, rebellion and uttering counterfeit coin. Mr. C. 11. Bing, an English lawyer, and M. Milhaud, a French lawyer, are appearing on behalf of Rakosi's family, but the actual defence has been entrusted to four Hungarian lawyers under tiie supervision of tiie international lawyer. M. Vtunbery, son of the famous explorer. M. Marcel Millard, president of the International Jurists’ Association, prepared tiie brief. Rakosi is suffering from heart trouble and is not allowed access to the papers and books. Counsel submitted that Rakosi should be tried by jury, but the Bencli insisted on tiie competence of the present tribunal. Rakosi contends that the Bela Kun Government, under which occurred the incidents culminating in the charges, was as lawful jas any capitalist administrat ion. At tiie termination of the war. Bela Kun led .in attempt by Communist revolutionaries in Hungary to emulate the Bolshevik coup in Russia. During a reign of terror many aristocrats were killed. The movement was abruptly cut short by counter measures instituted b.\ Admiral Worthy. present Regent of Hungary-