6 The "White" Orgy in Hungary Breeding A nother War

ADMIRAL NICHOLAS HORTHY By EUGENE S. BAGGER He has been named Regent of Hungary, by the National Assembly. l officers a WOOd outside Admiral Horthy, comma- The cable report of Februarv 2J, stating thai to Admiral Horthy s camo at nder-in-chief of Hun- the d Hungarian National Siofok. The prisoners were first compelled garian Army, was formerly miral Horthy, head of the to (fti oi their own graves. This being done, a ( commander-in-chie- f of the Army which occupied Budapest alter the departure company soj. Austro-Hungaria- n Navy and the Rumanians last November, has been appointed diers, armed with trench knives, were turned loose headed the army organized 00 newly-electe- d Assembly them. All but two were killed. These two, in Com- regent by the Constituent ,,UTev opposition to the stabbed, alive with munist rule in H ungary . would indicate to the uninitiated that Hungary has again were buried the forty corps. What the report This story was related by a (C) Keystone entered the path of law and order. sergeant of the old in fact means is that the White Terror, which has had Hungarian army. Stephen Hayden, who had been em- by Hungary in its clutches ever since last August, has ployed as a jailer Captain Ereisberger, in cl irge of reached its temporary climax. The next step merely the prison at Siofok. After witnessing unsj, akable a question of months, perhaps weeks will be the trs horrors, Hayden turned sick of his job and appl ed for discharge. Freiaberger YOU realize the real conditions toratiofl of monarchy; and with that the tragedy oi told him he "knew to much T0 Hungary will be consummated: not. however, the for being allowed to leave the camp alive," whereupon in Hungary, the slaughter that is tragedy of Kurope. For the restoration of monarchy he was thrown into a cell and threatened with execu- U in Hungary heralds another war as certainly as light- tion. Assisted by his wife, still going on there? he managed to escape to ning heralds thunder and sunrise day. Budapest, he fled, I echo-Slova- whence with the aid of a k This article brings conditions right officer, to Prague. Here he told his experiences to the newspapers. In a cell home to you, conditions in which A nierica at the Siofok prison be Developments Ignored in America saw one night eight men strung up on pega m the is interested whether she wills so not. wall, and thirty-tw- o lying or IS amazing how utterly American public opinion on the floor, stabbed to death. He also related how he was ITignores the developments in Hungary. It is not compelled to wit-- merely that the present government of that unfortunate country has inaugurated a reign of terror comparable only to the worst period of Czardom or the horrors upon no country of the world, with the of Turkish rule in Armenia. It is not merely that PERHAPS of Armenia, ha the late war inflicted under the dictatorship of Admiral Horthy. which at terrible catastrophe upon Hungary. as last has thrown off the disguise of the Huszar-Fried-ric- h Serbia and Poland have had their share of horrors ; "coalition cabinet." Hungary has been the scene but they at leat emerged victorious and today are of the killing and torturing of hundreds of innocent steering more or less safely toward the haven of a Jews, of an unexampled persecution of liberals, of a better future. Hungary, losing after more than a veritable Holy Inquisition trampling under its heel ev- million of her sons in a war where victory would have ery vestige of tree Speech and opinion, and resorting t. meant for her absorption by Prussia, has suffered a the destruction of entire libraries. defeat comparable only to the disaster of Poland in Revolting as these things are or ought to be to 1772, the year of the first partition. A 1 1 American humanitarian sentiment, a narrow-minde- d, J By the Treaty of Xeuilly she loses one-ha- lf over of insular "Americanism" may argue that they are mat- her territory, and with it practically all the natural re- ters of a domestic concern for Hungary, sources indispensable and none of to her growing industries; thrown America's business. The good persons who take this back upon the Danubian plain, shorn of her mines, line forget the lesson of that pistol-sh- ot forests and the which on J line greater portion of her railroads, she 28. 1914, ended the life of an Austrian archduke and 11 unable to support even her diminished population; started off the greatest war of history. Six three million Magyars, years ago oyer at the lowest estimate, not one American in a million even suspected that the will fall under the domination of Austria-Hungar- hostile races, and domestic policies of y would originate the largest proportion of them under that of Ru- a European quarrel in mania, which ultimately the lives oi the most backward and corrupt oligarchy in over two million American boys Europe. and the prosperity and happiness of the American common wealth were to be The los oi territory. nehe and population, how-re- r, involved. Similarly, together the present White Terror in Hun- with the humiliation of utter defeat, does gary will, if left unchecked, inevitably not constitute the result in an- worst aspect of Hungary's collapse. other explosion in Southeastern Europe which Sound Statesmanship, taking the lead once of the virile gen- more will put into jeopardy the peace and safety of ius of the Magyar race, might evolve a prosperous America. state even in the remaining rump of the old Hungarian Before pointing out the kingdom. A policy of conciliation, international implications a recognition of of the Hungarian White Terror, it is necessary briefly past errors and the determination to make the most of to review its gruesome achievements at home, as its a reality however depressing, might lead to a rap- prochement domestic policies furnish the best clue to the psy- to the victorious neighbors, to economic chology of its leaders. agreements insuring, in exchange for Magyar wheat The present Hungarian and corn, the coal and iron Government is based on the and industrial products of so-call- ed National Czecho-Slovaki- a, Army of Admiral Horthy, of- Jugo-Slavi- a, an the cattle and pork of Austro-Hungaria- the ficer of the n timber and former Navv who had minerals of Transylvania, and. in the end. distinguished himself in f to the formation oi that the World War. The nucleus wt Danubian confederation which of this National Army is formed by T ever since KoiIUth has been the goal a number of units of democratic organized by counter-revolutiona- ry leaders and thinkers in Southeastern Europe. officers, formerly of Indeed, the Imperial and Royal army, behind the Serb and the possibilities of a Magyar evolution along Rumanian lines the indicated lines of demarcation, while Bela Kun was were at hand when, on October 30, in power Budapest. 1918. the "bloodless at After the overthrow of the revolution" at Budapest, led by the Communists these units pro-Enten- were not permitted by te statesman. Count Michael Karolyi, and thr the Magyar command to enter Budapest, then occupied by a B foremost champion of democracy and the rights the Rumanians. 4' of the oppressed nationalities, Instead, they crossed over into the Dr. Oscar Jaszi. over- Transdanubian country, where threw the Hapsburg monarchy, established their number was aug- the people's mented by other volunteer corps recruited by republic and ordered the immediate withdrawal of young Magyar aristocratic officers. All these units were then co- troops from all fronts. It would take us too ordinated under far afield to explain why the command of Admiral Horthy, who this attempt of a group of struck his headquarters at Siofok, genuine liberals and idealists to a fashionable resort make Hungary safe on the Lake Balaton ( Plattensee). for democracy and a Wilsonian peace (in the old sense While the main body of this army of this term) ended in a dismal failure. Let it suffice to remained en- -- camped at Siofok, waiting ay that, owing chiefly to the ignorance for the departure of the (C) Prrss III. Service and ill will of Rumanians from Budapest, a number Allied statesmen, above all to the wild designs of detachments COUNT MICHAEL KAROLYI of led mostly by young noblemen: the Counts Esterhazy' French militarists, the Karolyi regime and with it Kormer president of the Hungarian Republic. Count Karolyi tl Szechenyi, Vay and Salm, the Barons Pong-rac- n ofoce from Magyar democracy was thrown to the wolves. Pronay z the time of the sinin of the armistice. Mtil Mtftfc Bolshevism followed, and Nopcsa, undertook the task of clearing the nc"i' re'ned nd turned over the authority to the Communis, and when in the first days of country from neaded by Hela Kun. living lor his reason, he could not rccogmre anti-Bolshe- Communists and that 1919, vik Communist sympathizers August the Social Democrats and That the boundaries of Hungary as outlined by the Peace Conltrcuce. Trade Unionists is to say, this was the official pretext of their of Budapest, led on bv promises of Al- tivities which developed ac lied support, Bela into a wholesale killing of overturned Run and the Communists thirty-M- Jews unparalleled since the Middle Ages iK'ss, at a place i their labors were rewarded by the entry of the Ru- anywhere in called Csibctelep, the murder Europe west of Russia A detachment, prisoners. Bayonets the V manian army into Budapest and the occupation of the led by a youth- were used to finish larger ful officer of noble birth, would enter a town or village tortllitmtel whose dead bodies of all valu- part of what remained of the old Hungary by and line up were robbed the bloodthirsty the Jewish inhabitants. Then, in some in ables by the White officeri and greedy troops of Rumania's stances, the Hohenzollern king. unfortunates were shot, bayoneted or But hanged without any further preliminaries, in even the horrors of the Rumanian occupation only others which ended examples were made of a few, the rest being Hanged in despoiling the unfortunate country of left off the for a Name her food supplies, rolling stock, at price of high ransoms and a flcwrinff machinery, gold bullion Some of the victims were Ks,,; massacres were under the pretext and even privately-owne- d tortured to death In conducted of jewelry, clothing and all T"that Com- SCSu thuCthotTleSof the Jcwish Population the men thus slaughtered were "dangerous household effects, were mild in comparison were sacked tne to what officers securing the lion's munists." Kar from this being the truth, some of followed. the presence of the Rumanian forces share of the nnder much-longed-f- booty Even the bodies victims were rich heavil) or of the Jews who gave the opportunity to victims were stripped had suffered the Magyar g, The Vienna Arbe.ter-e,tun- a the Communist rule. Thus one of the White officers. junker reactionaries who during the Karolyi democracy journal of high ana anti-Bolshev- ik ount and the subsequent standing and organ of the right Salm, hanged the Jewish manufacturer Communist period were busy in no Austrian Social Democracy, wine of financier of the end of intrigues behind the records on the deposition Freund de Tosaag, member of one Rumanian es and Serb lines of eye-witness- that the leading millionaire together witn of demarcation, in Vienna in White gangs operating families in Hungary, and Switzerland. Under the wes of Hungary his brother-in-law- , It the protection of the Rumanian murdered twenty-hv- e lews one Mr. Hamburger. happeJ arms these reactionary one week in 'the I ,a one Oi the the defunct adventurers representing little village of Marczali. Nine were People's Commissaries in the worst and most extreme executed at Lengyeltoti, eight Kolsnevik government Hamburger, element of the old autocratic regime in Csurgo four in also bore the name of Count Tisza Unspeakable atrocities were a commonplace German surname. The two Ham- stepped back to power. Deceiving the o chief representa- Smiontornya, Dunafoldvar, Paks, Ckaff burgers were not even related, but the coincidence of the lli high-soundin- g Janosha tive I, Sir George Clerk, with domolk ' names was Salm to promises of a national and other places. sufficient in the eyes of Count coalition government and all A group of 42. containing warrant the This sanu round fair play, the reaetionaries also a few GtntfU. .. execution of an innocent man. firmly established their pected of Socialist --ount Salm had. murdered a.Proit; regime and obtained a de facto (not Bolshevist!) sv m ,fh at Dunafoldvar. recognition. rounded up in near-b- y perous Jew. victim. villages, were taken by Whue Steiner by name, and robbed the ( 0oncludtd rm page 12)