The British officer reports that the bridge will not be repaired for two or three weeks, but that he saw near the crossing 150 locomotives, 200 to 300 empty freight cars, 4 aeroplanes in cars, 200 to 300 cars of military supplies, 300 tank cars, and between Szolnok and Budapest several hundred freight cars. INTERALLIED MILITARY MISSION [Translation "7] 17 2V.N.250 Telegram of August 27, 1919, From Budapest to the Supreme Council, Peace Conference, Paris No. 197. No change shown in the situation of the Hungarian Government. The following telegram from Count Sigray, who signs as commissioner of the Government for Western Hungary, was transmitted from Vienna: "The Rumanian troops are advancing toward Western Hungary, proclaiming that they come to reestablish order. We beg you to hear our protest against the activities of the Rumanians. In Western Hungary perfect order reigns in all districts, and the Hungarian and German populations are pursuing the business of peaceful reconstruction, which can only be disturbed by the undisciplined soldiery of the Rumanians." A great procession of Christian Socialists filed past the office of the Mission and sent delegates to ask for the protection of the Allied Powers against the return of the regime of Jews and Bolshevists. The Mission stated that it could not intervene in domestic affairs, but that it would transmit the petition to the Supreme Council. No communication from the Rumanian Command, unless it be a report which is supposed to have emanated from the Hungarian Chief of Police. According to this report, four weeks will elapse before 4,000 men for the police can be enrolled. Only 40 men each day are being recruited. The reasons given are: the harvest, the number of prisoners detained in Rumania and Czechoslovakia, the bad train service. The total force of the police is 1,850, of which 205 are mounted. A report has reached us that yesterday the bridge which was repaired at Czonsgrade was tested: the trial locomotive fell into the stream. INTERALLIED MILITARY MISSION 11:20 a. m. 17 Translation from the French supplied by the editors. Telegram of August 28-30, 1919, From Budapest to the Supreme No. 200. Since resignation of Archduke various deputations, two of several hundred persons each, have asked leave to present petitions to Mission. Object of petitions generally is to prevent return of Jewish rule or bolshevism. It appears to Mission that in present plight of Hungary, with foreign occupation and absence of real government, it would be disheartening to people if no notice were taken of their appeal to Allied Powers. Consequently Mission proposes to receive deputations which cannot be avoided, to inform them it is expressly excluded from intervening in internal affairs of Hungary, but that it will forward their petitions to Supreme Council. INTERALLIED MILITARY MISSION 2:22 p.m. Telegram of August 28-30, 1919, From Budapest to the Supreme No. 206. The Commission has just received a letter from the new President of the Hungarian Council. It is addressed to the President of the Supreme Council and will be sent to you by the next courier. The following is the text of the letter: "Mr. President: In accord with the action of the session of August 22 Prince Joseph, Governor of Hungary, and the government appointed by him, have resigned. The members of the new Cabinet are as follows: President of the Council, Minister of the Interior: Etienne Minister of Foreign Affairs: Count Imre de Czaky (appointed, Under Secretary of State for the Interior: Edmond de Benitzky, Minister of Agriculture: Jules Rubinek, director of the National 18 Translation is that filed under Paris Peace Conf. 181.9202/57. Translation is that filed under Paris Peace Conf. 181.9202/58, revised by the editors. Minister of Commerce: Franz de Henrich, merchant. Minister of Food Control: Karol Ereky, engineer-merchant. Minister of Justice: Georg Baloghy, judge. Minister of National Minorities: Jakob Bleyer, university pro fessor. Minister of Public Hygiene: Andreas Czillery, physician. Minister of Industrial Laborers: Daniel Olah, metal worker. It has been and it will always be almost impossible to form a ministry that will at the same time satisfy the various military missions at Budapest and our numerous fragments of political parties and that will, besides, win the approval of the command of the royal troops of Rumania. One thing is, however, certain, that the Ministry as composed at present possesses the sympathy and absolute confidence of a large and decisive majority of the Hungarian people. The heads of the military missions have certainly had the chance to convince themselves of this. I have tried to consider and satisfy loyally all just desires as fast as they have come up for our consideration. Consequently there are represented in this Cabinet large and small manufacturers, merchants, officials, farmers and industrial laborers. Mr. President, during the time of the Bolshevist government of Bela Kun the party of Social Democrats amalgamated to form the party of Communists, which the Socialist leaders remaining here during the commune have always accentuated in all their speeches in the Soviet Congress, as well as in their official journal, For these Socialist leaders of the workers have not used their influence to defeat Bolshevism, but have either gone over to Bolshevism or have taken refuge abroad, and deserted the workingmen, who thus become the prey of the fatal idea of Bolshevism and of the terror of the Communist government. Their non-Bolshevik leaders who have gone abroad have put themselves in relation with the Entente, but have not come to the assistance of either the workingmen or the State. The Hungarian bourgeoisie does not wish to see the working class misled, a class to which it reserves an important place in its future policy; hence it is to the representatives of the real workingmen and not to the professional leaders of the Social Democrats that I addressed the invitation to join my Cabinet. Mr. President, in the interest of the possibility of productive work, I beg you to take measures to the end that the military missions at Budapest will refrain from trying to influence our internal politics, but will help to maintain order and to reestablish the economic equilibrium. My Cabinet has decided to hold the new elections to the National Assembly on the basis of universal suffrage (equal, secret vote, and by commune) as soon as possible, that is to say within three or four weeks. All Hungarians will recognize the legality of these elections. In order that no doubt may arise that the coming elections rest upon and express the free manifestation of the national will, I request you, Mr. President, to send us a commission of control for these elections. It would be desirable that the Social Democrats form part of this commission. The elections will be held in territories, concerning which it will be possible to come to an agreement with the command of the royal troops of Rumania. Mr. President, until such time as we shall be able to put the government in the hands of the National Assembly, our provisional government desires to carry out the following tasks: the complete annihilation of Bolshevism, the restoration of administration and jurisdiction, security of food and continuity of production, safety of person and property, restoration and protection of political equality, and the preparations for the elections to the National Assembly. Mr. President, we request your support in the accomplishment of our duty and in our firm desire to reestablish constitutional life. Please accept, Mr. President, the expression of my profound respect. (Signed) Friedrich The new President, Friedrich, was at the head of the former Cabinet, of which 11 out of 14 members figure in the new one. Information from several sources, as well as certain ascertained facts, have confirmed the impression that Herr Friedrich, supported by the Archduke, is working actively to remain at the head of the new Cabinet and to keep colleagues who will not hinder too seriously his political aims. Referring to the telegram of the Supreme Council of August 23,20 which brought about the fall of the Friedrich Cabinet, we retain our first impression that a Cabinet formed in the above manner and presided over by Friedrich does not meet the requirements of the Supreme Council. freak-1 INTERALLIED MILITARY MISSION BUDAPEST, August 29, 1919. From: The Inter-Allied Military Mission. No. 215. A telegram received yesterday by a member of the Mission inquires why, if the Mission considers that the Hungarian army is reduced to the effectives stipulated by the Armistice of November 13,22 the Supreme Council has not been advised of it; the telegram adds that the Supreme Council can not exact the withdrawal of the Rumanian army behind the line fixed by the Peace Conference until it can prove that all menace of military action on the part of Hungary against her neighbors is removed. Numerous messages sent by the Mission to the Supreme Council have declared that, with the excep "Appendix A to HD-37, vol. VII, p. 819. "Translation is that filed under Paris Peace Conf. 181.9202/61. Vol. 1, p. 183. tion of a small contingent, ill-equipped and counting less than 8000 men under the orders of Admiral Horthy, west of the Danube, the Hungarian army as an army has ceased to exist, and that the Rumanian forces have not evacuated Hungary because their presence is necessary until a Hungarian army sufficiently strong to maintain order in the interior can be organized. As the messages in question may have been ambiguous or inaccurately interpreted we wish to add now that, in the opinion of the Mission, the Hungarian army has for some time been reduced below the effectives mentioned in the armistice of November 13. INTERALLIED MILITARY MISSION [Translation"] [Telegram From the Interallied Military Mission in Hungary to the Supreme Council] To the Supreme Council, Paris. BUDAPEST, August 30-31, 1919. No. 225. With regard to the telegram from the Supreme Council, sent under date of August 21,24 concerning the establishment of control posts to prevent the export of goods into Rumania, the Interallied Mission has not sufficient personnel for that purpose, and requests that three additional officers be sent immediately to Budapest by each of the four Allied Powers, in order to establish control posts on the Theiss. Appendix F to HD-45 [Translation"] TREATY WITH AUSTRIA INTERALLIED MISSION Addition to Article 263 Proposed by the Special Committee of the Economic Commission All provisions of this section dealing with the relations between Austria or Austrian nationals and the nationals of the former Empire of Austria, apply also to the same relations between Austria or Austrian nationals and the nationals of the former Kingdom of Hungary who shall acquire of right, by application of the treaty 28 Translation from the French supplied by the editors. "HD-35, vol. VII, p. 776. |