Papers and Documents relating to the Foreign Relations of Hungary, Volume 1, 1919–1920 (Budapest, 1939)
Documents
1920 I8I The Interallied Military Mission is awaiting Your Excellency's reply to its letter mentioned above ; but, pending its receipt, the Mission considers it necessary to point out that in view of General Mittelhauser's claim that the position of Cered in regard to the frontier 1 is not determined, and his request for its provisional determination by the Mission, that requisitions by the National Army in this debatable territory should not be made. It is also advisable that Hungarian troops should not enter the town. The Mission desires to point out to Your Excellency that it is frequently asked to use its good offices with the Czecho-Slovak Government in the interest of the Hungarian population, but that it is impossible for the Czecho-Slovak Government to accede to its requests, if ill feeling is created by such incidents as those which are now reported. No. 157. 42.szjl. — B.I. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Somssich, to the Secretary General of the Hungarian Peace Delegation, Mr. Praznovszky. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 134. BUDAPEST, March 3, 1920. You are requested to convey the following message from Horváth to Count Bethlen: According to reliable reports, the Yugoslav authorities have arrested Nicholas Ybl, retired General, at Szabadka. He was taken to Zombor, where he was condemned to death. General Ybl is a near relative of Colonel Csécsy-Nagy, who was condemned to death by the Rumanians in Transylvania. In other words, two members of the same family are victims of the ruthless persecution of Hungarians by the occupying authorities. I should like the Peace Delegation to make appropriate representations not merely in the interest of the condemned and his relatives, but also in the interest of the Hungarian population in the south of Hungary. According to reports received from Kolozsvár, the Rumanian Governing Council by ordinance No. 11.393 SVI, 1 Recte : Demarcation line.
