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HU GAR AN ARMY DISCIPLINE AND E MORAL IMPROVE Undesirable Element Weeded Out and Men Found Physically Un- -- hi io D6 dOiQiers oeni nome. NFWSPAPFRS WORKING HARD r m mm w w 0 9 m m w w - - Columns Printed in Effort to Bolster Up Communist Gov : ernment, Admittedly Tottering. By' A. B. Deeker f Fteial Cabla to Th Journal and Tho Cilctl Daily Newt. I Copyright, 1919, by Chlctga Dally Newa Co.) . Budapest, Hungary, Juna 6, via Paria. Juna it The 3iaza (Thelaa) river la mo wollen by raina that no military action U possible In that region. On one Bide aland the Roumanians and on the other are the reorganised Hungarian troops. - The Hungarian army, under the im pulse of War Minister Boehm and the officers he has assembled, is now well disciplined. Regular officers are In control of the whole system of strategy and they inspire confidence. Men who are found to be unfit Sot soldiers are on their way home. According to the re ports, the ' undesirable elements have been weeded out of Jibe army, leaving as its backbone some of Hungary's best soldier material. It is even said that -they get along: well with the peasants. IROTJMANIAN FOECE REDUCED . Thus It la seen that the pressure of realities la causing In the army devel opments similar to those taking place in the industrial life of communistic Hun gary. Recording to soldiers who have returned from the Tisza region, the Roumanians have visibly diminished their forces at this front and have sent the greater prt of their men to face the Russians. Budapest newspapers are printing columns about the advance of lhe Ukrainians across the Dnelster. The evident idea Is to uphold the power of the terrorists until the communists can realize their ambition to compel the en tente to recognize the. present dictators. I hardly think that the Bolshevist In Hungary hope to have any active mili tary aid from the Ukrainians other than a diversion on the Roumanian front In Bessarabia. Bela Kun claims that all Ukrainia is governed by Soviets, but Vit,i In thA arnvernmftnr hpcln to rimtr the failure of the communistic project, at least in Hungary. Budapest has quite a martial air. Motor lorries . go through the streets bearing soldiers and munitions to the front. 100 kilometer I0 miles) distant On nearly every street corner are armed sentinels, and in every .quarter there are many post of guards maintaining order and ready to combat any uprising. One cannot say that Budapest is -not on the whole orderly, but it is the same kind of order that one would find in a prison with the roles of keepers and inmates reversed. The government succeeded . in taking some machine guns' from the ter rorist group it wished to disarm. This group, it Is said, has some bombth row era and s large quantity of hand gre nades. Two of their members who killed the Vandor family were executed after a trial by the revolutionary court. HATE IS XETSOTE The more the political nature of Bol shevism in Hungary comes to the sur face, the more it takes the form -of po litical hate against the entente, against what they call "President Wilson's weakness," against the Caecha "and Serbs, and particularly against the Rou manian. The four remaining- newspa pers which are under the direction of the government are filled with articles designed to discredit everything regard ing the entente. These articles are very pro-German Apd pro-Russian. For in stance, the leading article in this morn ing's Pester Lloyd, the former principal German paper in Budapest, and now edited by communists. Is replete with bitterness against the peace conference. It gloat over expected aid from Rus sia. Here are some significant pas sages: " - -"INKER ESEHT" LAMPOONED The inner enemy (those opposed to the government) await with shameless Joy the fall of the dictatorship brought about by the victory of the Roumanians or the rule of the Czechs, hoping in-tea-raily - to restore the old system of capitalism. The neighboring peoples, strong through their support from Paris, 1 build about us an iron ring to enslave, our children and our children's children. At this moment a telegram from Nikolai Lenin announcing the defeat of Admiral Kolchak and the crossing of the Dneis ter by the Red army brings us new hope and courage. "The force of our army wQl not be built alone through discipline and self sacrifice. It will be increased and strengthened through the tactics of force,, cruelty and inhumanity of the entente. The entire proletariat might of the world must-march against this cruelty of imperialism. At its bead are Russia and Ukrainia, whose armies are already brilliantly conquering our worst enemy, the Roumanians, and who have crossed the Xraeieter. ' . COMPROMISE 3TECXSSAST However, one of the secretaries of the department' of foreign affairs, Peter Agoston says : ' . "We are surrounded by such a num ber of peoples with different forma of government and culture that It seems impossible to catry out completely the principles of communism. We will have to compromise." The writer in Pester Lloyd continues: "Though we know we cannot establish communism by force, we also know that no one can strangle it by force. War is but a means. If we cannot find a way euti we must compromise between our Socialistic confession and the urgent de mands of the day. After five year of frightful warfare we are still at war. Our means of existence decrease. Food Controller Morlt Erdelyi ? announces that the demand of the city are not being met by the country and that the control councils are not being supported according . to the requirements of the general interest of the proletariat.. PEASANTS REFUSE FOOD ' Thl mean, of course, that the peas ants refuse -to send food to the soviet government. The entente knows well enough, our condition and what we suffer," con tinues the writer. ."But what can we expect' from the entente considering what it has given to other peoples? We are not only an enemy opposed by the entente troop on all fronts, but w are the proletariat, the bete noire of the entente. We are Bolshevik!. There re mains but one way for us and that is through the solidarity of the prole tariat." ', : -! Evidently the Bolshevik! are preparing a way for a military or economic de feat, with the idea of saving some of their power from the wreckage of ruined. Hungary. Poor Bread Causing Trouble in Holland . Special Cable to Thm Journal and The Chicago DdBy Newt. , (Coprricht. 1819. by Chicasw Daily Nt Co.) , The Hague, June 27. The brown bread of Holland is so deficient in quality that consumers and bakers are sending pro tests to the government about it- A society of directors of municipal labora tories for Investigating foodstuffs has decided to call the attention of the min isters to this danger to the public health. JlX Maastricht 20 persons . died after eating brown bread. In ; Amsterdam the bread has an offensive odor in the evening on the day which it is baked. Some persons blame potato flour, others the pea flour, which are component parts of the government meal. Now that a sufficient quanity of grain flour is being imported the public does not see why it should be made to eat in ferior stuff simply because the govern ment mixture cannot be discarded with out a big monetary loss. English Censorship -Thing of Past Now Special CaWs to The journal and Ths Chicago Duly Newa.. (Copyright, 1919, by CbJcaco Daily Nowa Co.) London. England, June 27. The cen sorship in air press dispatches which has been on since the beginning of the war has been raised; Ceylon's college of tropical agriculture will be developed into one of the largest institutions of the kind in the world. MatMs Clothes stu dy For men and young men have acquired their, worth through our years of constant tailoring betterment, able fabrics and just pricing. Materials of merit, fashioned to conform with the ideas of the well dressed. depend Vassar Athletic Underwear that will give you genuine summer comfort; Well tai lored garments of n a i o s o o k and madras, with reg ular or V neck. $11 50 Satisfactory Wear . Guaranteed $25to?85 Palm Beach Clothes 17 50 to $ 25 Corbett Building MEN S WEAR Fifth and Morrison GERMAN BOMBAST FINALLY BOWS TO COLD, HARD FACTS Grandiloquent Demagogues Find Flames of Passion Are Ashes When Crisis Actually Arrives. HEROICS ARE OF NO AVAIL Masses; Dictate Signing of Peace Despite Political Activity of Talk Kept Up Since Armistice. DUCHESS SUES AND ? WINS DIYORCE DECREE I IT 1 ' 1 -ST" 41 By Bea Hecht Special Ckbl to Th Journal and The Chioace XMlr Nm (Copyright, 1019. by Cbicaco TSlJ Nw Col) Berlin. Germany, June 20. (Via Co penhagen, June 27.) Noske the First Is no more. Scheidemann has his reluct ant feet upon the threshold of oblivion. A whole ?wagbn load of figureheads con stituting the first cabinet of ; the new Germany under President Ehert has al ready been dumped. . . "May. the hand of him who signs this peace rot upon its arm." a most ghast ly sentence, ' has come back to leer at' the minister president as He leaves his job. I remember when Scheidemann launched that gruesome curse upon this same hand. Then there was Jubilation and the newspapers pounded their heroic chests and chanted of Thermopylae, saying- that it was a typical Scheidemann victory. He basked In the false en thusiasm of the moment. It was the sort of victory which had crowned him from day to day throughout the war. HEROICS ARE OVER I remember even when Die Frei heit the organ independent socialism, appeared on the day after the first publication of the entente's peace terms with the announcement that the terms would have to be accepted and that the only sane. 'practical course was to sign. Groans and cries or cowardliness seem ingly arose from all sides, and again, when Hugo Haass, Jeader of the Inde pendents, addressed the national as sembly in Weimar following Scheide mSnn's desperate cry, "We will never sign this peace ! X recall he was shouted down, and threatened with physical violence Hasse's usual fate in German political conventions. BOtlTTCS MOSTIiT BOMBAST. Fine the days of the armistice Ger man politics and political activity have consisted almost exclusively of words sonorous, bombastic. . always pathetic There were a few intermezzos one in Munich in April, two in Berlin Jn Jan uary and In March, and one In the Ruhr district intermezzos of action, barri cades and deeds performed under red and white flags. There was still a fu gitive belief that the .aatlonaJ assembly at the eleventh hour might deliver. Itself of the astounding decision not to sign the peace terms of the entente. ' In that event, a general strike by the German workmen was inevitable. -When, how-1 ever, the work was begun of assembling new figureheads for the fateful job of affixing Germany's signature to the world's latest effort at a treaty of peace. everything began to point to a "yes" from Germany. LEADERS OF SAME STRIPE Of the men who appear on the po litical horizon today, Herman ftjuller is an old line Socialist,, a trifle more rad ical in his views and more in touch with the j masses than Scheidemann. Ersberger is renowned In Germany as a conscienceless opportunist. He has the respect or nobody outsiae or tne po litical machine which he manipulates. Baron von Richthofen belongs to the celebrated patriotic - German family which gave the kaiser one of his most famous aviators. The baron himself was a member of the national liberals in the reichstag during the war. There Is one outstanding fact in con nection with the signing of peace the masses who are nowadictatlng the sig nature will not be represented in the new cabinet any more than they were in. the first. This is because the inde pendent Socialists hold firm to their determination to refuse to participate In any form of government other than that of a Socialistic republic run With out a military payroll. MILITARISM UNDECIPHERABLE The activities of Germany's new militarism are dark and undecipherable in this crisis. The league for the pro tection of the German kaiser blossomed out last week, calling upon all Germans worthy of the name" to stand by the former emperor and not : hand over a German subject to blind and furious judgment of his accusers. Pontoon Bridge 1440 Feet; Long Built by Army in 41 Minutes Bv Jnnlsi B. Wood! Special Cabl to Tlx ioosoal and The Cbico Oopyriht,1 19t, ? Chicago Tdj Nw Co.) Coblenr. Germany,' June Z7 The com panies of the American First regiment of engineers won in the neighborhood of mo 600 marks I25,000) for their com rades of the First division when they beat the records of the Second regiment of engineers pt the Second division in pontoon bridge building across the Rhine at Honningen on Sunday. th fjMsnd division fighters backed the record of their regiment in com pleting a bridge in ts minuies on we previous Sunday. The First division mrwn-v AM th 1ob ill 41 'minUtCS. while the automobiles of Major General Edward . -racuacnun Jr.. commanding the aivision ; JOioni rri o. auuhwh onmTmanritn? lbs Teariment. and the di visional band crossed the new structure before . 68 minutes naa expired, xne bridge Is 140 feet long and 93 boats mart of Ttlanks were reauired. ' Preparatory to the contest the boats mrmrm iA alnnp tb aTMMkftitA shares and planks, . and. ropes were piled at their sides. Crews of six men each rowed the boats into the stream and anchored them in line, , uien : ran to snore ana rowed out the next boat- Other men carried -. the ; planks. Nobody walked when the "job was completed. Irish League Being Organized ' lAradon. June.. 1. (I. N. & The Daily Mail reports today that Sir Horace l The Duchess of Westminster bas been granted a divorce from Hugh Rich ard Grosvenor, . second Duke of Westminster, on the grounds of desertion and misconduct, accord ing to a report from London. Coun sel for the duke said a simple de nial to the charges had been en tered originally, ', but that upon trial the case had not been eon tested. Society and royalty were well represented at the trial. The duehess formerly was Constance Edwina, daughter of Colonel Wil liam Corn wallis-West She and her husband signed a separation agree ment in 1914. They .were married in 1901, and have two children. Plunkett is organizing an ."Irish Domin ion League" to effect a settlement of Irish problems. . THE CORNERED TRADE ROUTE IS EXPECTED TO AID BELGIUM AND U. S. Operation of Steamers Between New . Orleans Antwerp and . Belgian Congo Planned. By Fas! Seett Mowrer, Special Cibl to Th Jornl sad The Chlcmse IJly News. -tCopyrisht. 3910. to Chiesfo XMls Nrw Co.) Paris, June 2?.- An - Interesting -Initiative has been- taken by certain Bel gian and American business men with a view of establishing a three cornered trade route between New Orleans, Ant werp and the Belgian Congo, according to Walter; Parker of New Orleans, La., general secretary of the Mississippi Val ley association of which K. H. Merrick yot Chicago Is president. . v It is proposed to ship cotton artd Ala bama steel to Belgium for use by liel glan Industries and then load manufac tured goods for the Belgian i.Congo, whence a. cargo of vegetable oils, rub ber, ivory and dye woods will be car ried back to New Orleans and distrib uted through the Mississippi valley by water routes that are now being de veloped.;; The advantage of this three cornered trade Is that it permits a direct ex change of. products, for Belgium at the present time, like most other European countries, has no money with which to buy American raw stuffs of which It ,1s greatly in need. Belgian merchants are said to be en thusiastic over the new proposal, as it not only promises to give them cotton and steel, but will help their trade with the Congo. Ships will perhaps. be sup plied by joint Belgian and American capital. Mr. Parker adds that he has found European financiers much Inter ested in the project of John J. Arnold, vice president of the First National bank of Chicago, for the establishment of a Mississippi y alley bank which would enable business men of the" Middle West to condact foreign trade without "pay ing tribute" to New York. . Members of the American Cotton con gress, which will be held in the United States in October, , can now be assured that Great Britain. Franca and Belgium hav promised to send Important dele gatlon. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Is Recovering Health . London,' Juna 17. Ella Wheeler Wil cox, the- noted poetreaa, who reoantly was critically 111, la recovering rapidly. Mrs. Wilcox- plans to return to the United States Immediately. 1 MARIA SPIRIDONOVA HAS ESCAPED FROM SANITARIUM REPORT Noted Revolutionist Confined Aft y er She Turned Against Lenin and Opposed Bolshevism. GERMANY TOLD NOT ' JO MEDDLE AT ALL POLISH AFFAIRS? Allied Note Conveys Information Sub Rosa Order of Huns Is Not a Secret By Itaae lea Levis . Special Cabl to Tb Journai and Tba OiteMO iMiiy Na (Copyrtfht. 1919. br Chlws Daily linn Co.) : Stockholm, 8weden," June 27. Maria Spiridonova. the intrepid leader of the left socialist revolutionists, who organ ised last summer's rising against the Bol shevist government, has escaped from the sanitarium where she was confined after her trial. Although Spiridonova supported Lenin during j the first months, she turned against . the Bolshevist dictatorship a year ago and took part In the Socialist revolutionary party conspiracies against the lives of Lenin, Trotsky, Voladarkey and other Bolshevist leaders. She was arrested last fall, but was not tried until early in April this year. The court' condemned her to one year's confinement in- a sanitarium on the strength of medical testimony showing her to be a nervous wreck. Her escape Indicates renewed activity on the part of the socialist revolutionary party, the most formidable internal enemy of soviet Russia. Victor Tchernoff. minister of agri culture in. the Kerensky cabinet and leader of the center socialist revolution aries. Is reported to be living secretly jln Moscow, eluding the soviet authori- ties. Paris, June 27. The allied note hold ing Germany responsible for any move ment against Poland after peace is signed, dispatched yesterday, was made' public Thursday. It said: . "The - allied and associated powers feel it is necessary to direct the atten tion of the German government to the ( fact that the' Polish authorities have i come into possession of the attached j official German dispatch, which states that while the German government means to sign the peaoe. It Intends to ! give unofficial support to local move-1 Polish authority in the territories al-, lotted to Poland In Posen, and In Cant ; and West Prussia, and to the occupation of Upper Silesia by the allied and aso- nisi a1 Tnnwars " I vm wave aw v "In view of this information the allied ' and associated powers think it neoes- sary to Inform the German government that they will hold It strictly responsible for seeing that, at the time Indicated In the treaty, alt troops and all offi cials. Indicated by the allied commission, are withdrawn and that In the event of local disturbances In resistance to the treaty, no support or assistance to thai InnurgenU Is allowed to pass the new frontier Into Poland." The telegram referred to in the fore going letter follows: "Posen, June 21, M19. The govern- ; ment will sign. Nevertheless. Horsing 1 will proclaim for Silesia Wig, for West- '. era and Kastern Prussia, war against the east. The government officially will, declare Its opposition, but unofficially will support the action by every means. Sorsing has telegraphed today, fiend ' my large parcel to Bresiau." " ' Tinfi'a imriM-vrminrl raJrnda are i iiiiHtliir with . r.ra havit.ar five . doors to permit rapid loading and unloading. V r - .iinnies The serinus rnnrprn about fhe mnuntinp- ensts of necessities was shown Hot long ago when twenty-six Democratic members bMhe Massachusetts legislature cabled to President Wilson that "The citizens of the United States; want you home to help reduce the high cost of living, which we consider far more impdrtantthan the League of Nations." " A man's suit of clothes that cost $i 5.00 in 1914 costs $26.00 today ; shoes that were $9.00 in 1914 cost $15.50 now; a woman's suit that cost $15.00 in 1914 is $24.00 today; every item in both men's and women's apparel has nearly doubled in price,, .while food, shelter, fuel, hea and light have soared to equally high levels. 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