Hungary

During celebrations of the Revolution of 1848 held by the awakening Magyars at Budapest the offices of the newspaper Az Est (The East), which has been friendly to the Jews, were raided. Seven students were wounded in the fighting, which was finally terminated by the police, who were obliged to use their swords. The situation has become so grave that the Government has been obliged to bar Jews from attending the high schools and universities. In the meantime Premier Count Bethlen is conferring with Admiral Horthy--Regent of Hungary--at Castle Godollo. Many more antiroyalist newspapers have been attacked and many cold-blooded murders have taken place. The whole trend of events points to the fact that anti-Semitism is not the only object of the demonstrations, and that the disorders are definitely taking on a new complexion in the shape of pro-royalism. Leaders of the opposition have warned the Government that the students are preparing for rebellion. Count Bethlen has retorted by threatening to enforce martial law if necessary. The anniversary of the 1848 revolution, which started the present trouble, commemorates the year in which Louis Kossuth established Hungary as an independent state connected with Austria only through the Emperor. A long period of negotiations they started between the Emperor and the Hungarian Diet, which culminated in a declaration of war between the two countries. The House of Habsburg was only saved in this instance by the opposition of the Slavs to the Magyars and the consequent state of civil war. At the end of 1848 the Emperor Franz Josef I ascended the throne on the abdication of Ferdinand I, and early next year the Hungarians were defeated and deprived of all constitutional rights.