Papers and Documents relating to the Foreign Relations of Hungary, Volume 1, 1919–1920 (Budapest, 1939)

Documents

228 1920 British Trade Unions delegated to this country at earliest possible date a committee consisting of greatest possible number of members who could get into direct touch with leaders of Hungarian workers and with Government here and thus form clear idea as to our position and convince themselves of utter baselessness of tendentious rumours concerning persecution of Hungarian workmen.

1 The President of the Day of the Interallied Military Mission in Budapest, General Gorton, to the Prime Minister, Mr. SimonyiSemadam. The Interallied Military Mission has the honour to draw Your Excellency's attention to its letter No. 1738, dated March 3rd,

2 in which it was stated that the Mission had decided, as a provisional arrangement, that the village of Cered should be considered to be in Hungarian territory and the village of Tajti in the territory of Czecho-Slovakia. The Mission has received information from the Czechoslovak Mission to Budapest that a Czecho-Slovak gendarmerie patrol on 9th March heard that the villages of Tajti and Hidegkút were occupied by Hungarian gendarmerie, and on approaching the former village were fired at by the Hungarians. It is also reported that the Czecho-Slovak patrol was taken prisoner and removed. The Interallied Military Mission desires that Your Excellency will furnish as soon as possible an explantion of the violation of the frontier by the Hungarian patrol and of the attack on the patrol of Czecho-Slovak gendarmerie. The Mission also desires that immediate steps be taken to evacuate Tajti. 1 An identical invitation was sent on May 1, 1920, by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Teleki, to the Director of the International Labour Office, Mr. Albert Thomas. 2 Supra, Doc. No. 158. No. 191. 2315/M.E. . No. 1820. BUDAPEST, March 16, 1920.