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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 9, 1937.
SENSATIONAL REPORT OF ATTEMPTED "PUTSCH”
IN HUNGARY
DICTATORSHIP PLOT FAILS BUT SITUATION STILL TENSE
(SPECIAL TO THE “CHINA MAIL”)
Berlin, To-day.
A sensation has been created here by reports. that the Hungarian Government has only narrowly averted a "putsch" by the Right Wing radicals.
THE NEWS IS CONTAINED IN A DESPATCH TO THE “DEUTSCHE ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG” FROM ITS CORRES- PONDENT IN VIENNA.
The correspondent says that an extremely critical situation has prevailed in Hungary for the past! week, and that only the receipt of Dr. a warning by the Premier,
YOUNG MARSHAL'S TROOPS
Kalman Daranyi, prevented a seri- Migration To Be Ended
ous crisis.
IRON CENSORSHIP
By March 20
The iron curtain of censorship
Nanking, To-day.. has descended, he continues, and The threat to peace in north- his news was smuggled out of the west china appears to have de finitely subsided with the announ- country with great difficulty.
He adds that several important cement that the transfer of Mar- changes in the Government are im-shal Chang Hsueh-liang's former pending and that numerous arrests army to Human and Anhwei will be are being made.
completed by March 20.
"RINGLEADER". NAMED
All divisions of the army are en route to their new posts by train. The correspondent names a Gov-except for the cavalry regiments, ernment deputy, M. Bela Marton, which are leaving Kansu and as the ringleader of the group who Shensi within a few days. planned the coup d'etat.
M. Marton is secretary-general of the Government party and was a close friend of the deposed pre- mier, General Gomboes.
PLANNED A “MARCH"
ter.
Reu-
DANCE GIRLS STAGE ALL-IN BOUT
With blackened eyes and
The correspondent recalls that when General Gomboes was ousted scratches on their faces, two dance from the premiership, rumour had girls from the Majestic Dancing it that M Marton attempted to Hall, Betty Kwok and Annie Ho,
appeared before Mr. K. Keen at the - prevail upon him to establish
Central Magistracy this morning, dictatorship.
Then he planned to emulate charged with disorderly conduct in Mussolini's famous march on Rome Theatre Lane at 9.50 p.m. last by a similar march on Budapest, night.
They were also bound over on a and to present the Hungarian Re gent, Admiral Horthy, and the bond of $50 for one year. Inspec- tor Baker said defendants were Government with a fait accompli.
The ultimate aim of the reported seen fighting by a constable. One "putsch" was to bring about the had a shoe in her hand and the fall of the Government and the other a bunch of keys and they could not be separated. A crowd establishment of a dictatorship.
Meanwhile the anti-Jewish move-of over 200 had gathered round the ment in Hungary is spreading.
PAUL IGNOTUS ASSAULTED Yesterday the Jewish author, Paul Ignotus, was assaulted by a group of Hungarian students be cause of an article he had publish-
ed in a Liberal newspaper.
two. Inspector Baker added that both were equally guilty and that jealousy over dance clients was ap- parently the cause of the trouble.
$47,000 FOR WATER
METER REPAIR
The assault took place in the editorial office of the paper, when
That $37,000 has been spent for M. Ignotus, after admitting to the water meter repairs under the Es students that he was the author of timates for 1936, and that a fur- the article, was set upon and bad ther $10,000 is required, bringing ly injured
the total to $47,000 for the year, is revealed in a request for a supple- mentary vote which is to be sub- mitted to the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council to
Two students were later arrest ed-Trans-Ocean.
PREMIER TO MAKE STATEMENT
Budapest, Later. The general political tension in mo Hungary, owing partly to the re- ported discovery of an intended Rightist putsch and to the strike situation in the mining areas, still
continues.
LIVE QUAILS PACKED LIKE POTATOES
It is expected that an attempt will be made to clarify the situa tion on Wednesday when a Govern Lam Hoi, aged 24, a market ment deputy, M. Victor Drozdy, coolie, was this morning fined $25 will ask for information regarding by Mr. K. Keen at the Central reports of an entirely new orienta-Magistracy for cruelty to 48 quaile tion of Hungarian domestic by cramming them into a small politics.
basket. Inspector AV Baker The Premier himself is expect- said that the birds were forced to ed to make a statement in reply to stand on one another and were the interpellation Trans-Ocean. packed just like potatoes.