RED ARMY UNREST

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28131, 21 November 1956, Page 15

RED ARMY UNREST

“Mutiny And Desertion” (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 20. There was evidence of serious unrest among Russian troops in Hungary, the “Daily Telegraph” reported today. Several circumstantial reports of armed clashes in Hungary between units of the permanent Russian garrison and the new arrivals from Russia were brought to Vienna by refugees yesterday, according to the ‘Daily Telegraph.’’ One refugee spoke of a clash between Russian troops over the weekend at Papa, 70 miles west of Budapest. Other reports from Szeged, on the Jugoslav border, say several hundred Russian soldiers crossed into Jugoslavia for internment. Some went over fully armed. Some reports of Russian troop clashes may be exaggerated, says the newspaper, but the impression is inescapable that serious trouble is still rife among the Russian forces. Nearly all ' the reported incidents of mutiny and desertion seem to concern troops who have been stationed for some time in Hungary or Rumania, and who were called in to crush the original Hungarian uprising. The “Daily Telegraph” said a tense and uneasy lull prevailed in Hungary yesterday. It now seems clear that the Kremlin has prepared for the worst by sending further troop reinforcements close to the Hungarian border. So far these are not on 5 scale to support reports of 20 extra infantry divisions—reports which were circulated by the Communist puppet Government in Budapest on Sunday. As some workers in Budapest drifted back to their jobs today in an inconclusive end of their protest strike against Russian occupation, the Hungarian official newspaper “Nep Szabadsag” said that it was in the interest of the country for the police to remove everyone who still demanded the continuation of the general strike. It declared that the strike was now out of date, and said the idea that the strike was begun by terrorists was a mistake.

Winter Beats Strikers

(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON. November 20. The British United Press reported tonight that “General Winter” and hunger were winning in Hungary, where Russian forces and numerous government concessions had failed. The news agency said that Hungarian workers were ending their three-week-old general strike and drifting back to work. One worker said: “Government propaganda did not convince us, but winter is here and misery comes.”

Communists Hit At Tito

(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON. November 19. President Tito of Jugoslavia came under fire today from both Czechs and Russians for his recent speech attacking Stalinism and the "fatal error” of military intervention in Hungary. Both “Pravda” in Moscow and “Rude Pravo” in Prague, the newspapers of tl n - respective Communist Parties, accused Marshal Tito of trying to divide the Communists at a time when unity was the greatest need of the movement.