RUSSIANS IN HUNGARY

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28128, 17 November 1956, Page 11

RUSSIANS IN HUNGARY

“Ugly Mood In Budapest”

(Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, November 16. An ugly mood is developing again in Budapest, British newspaper correspondents reported today. The news of mass deportations eastwards of Hungarian women and children as well as men of military age threatened to bring the temper of strikers to boiling point, correspondents said.

A refugee told a “Daily Mail” correspondent: “Soviet troops and Hungarian secret police are sealing off all streets in Budapest, moving from house to house, dragging off from each home any male capable of bearing arms.

“In Hungary that means any child over the age of eight.” Other refugees, quoted by the British United Press, said that Russian soldiers were seizing any youths they found on the streets and taking them off to trains for deportation. Some estimates of the numbers deported were as high as 16,000 in Budapest alone, including about 3000 women.

Officials of the Central Workers' Council of Greater Budapest told reporters that sealed trainloads of youths were still heading towards Russia.

Protest demonstrations against the deportations continued in Budapest yesterday, the “Daily Telegraph” said. There are believed to be several thousand armed patriots still undispersed in the hills on Budapest’s Western outskirts.

Yesterday they halted first efforts tc start civil bus transport in the area by firing warning shots across the bonnets of vehicles.

Black Powder Explodes In Packing House

(Rec. 8 p.m.) SCRANTON (Pennsylvania), Nov. 16. About 30001 b of black powder exploded in the packing house of a Dupont Company factory near here last night, killing two men. wrecking a three-storey concrete building, and jolting the countryside for miles around. State police, who had great difficulty getting close to the flaming building, said that it had been definitely established that two men on duty in the factory had lost their lives.