BELA KUN'S COLLAPSE

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 32, 7 August 1919, Page 7

BELA KUN'S COLLAPSE

EXTREMISTS IN A PANIC

LEADERS FLYING FROM

REPRISALS,

{UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIQHT.I (ACSTRAMAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 6th' August. The Daily Telegraph's Milan correspondent reports that Bela Kun's downfall occurred with dramatic suddenness. After fighting for power for weeks, the leaders of the Hungarian Bolsheviks are now flying to escape the reprisals which they justly fear. They were dismayed early in the week, when they learnt that the Eed troops were surrendering wholesale and fraternising with-the Rumanians. i The Bolshevik Government was in a state.of panic on Thursday. Bela Kun, during the night, accompanied by the people's commissaries, motored to the front and saw a stampede of the Red Guards. Then they motored to Budapest, where- there was a stormy meeting, which lasted eight hours, during which the Bolshevik leaders indulged in fierce recriminations. Maniac extremists crowded Parliament House, shouting : "Let the nation, sink in blood before the Soviets yield power!" But Bela Kart then saw the game was up, and called the Grand' Council of Workmen and Soldiers. Within fifteen minutes his resignation was accepted, and a more moderate Socialist Government elected. (PUBLISHED IK THE TIMES j LONDON, 6th August. " | The Rumanians control Budapest, Thirty thousand troops nave occupied, the city. ,