The Archive · 1928

Arrest of Bela Kun

Charged with Disobedience of Banishment Order Vienna, Apr. 27.

Bela Kun, the head of the short~ lived Communist Government in Hungary in 1919, who was arrested here to-day, arrived from Russ a political mission and took an under the name of a business firm where he and his Hungarian Party friends could meet.

Measures are being taken to arrest his accomplices, He will be charged with being a member of a secret society and returning to the country contrary to an anier against it, Later.

Another communist has been arrested and alco a girl who is alleged to be Bela Kun's secretary.

It is alleged that among the papers seized in the rooms of Bela Kun was a plan for the establish ment of a Soviet Republic in Hungary and the distribution of Bolshevik propaganda in the Balans, It is stated also that Chancellor has dissolved a Red organization known as "The Fighters in the Van."—Reater.

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