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

Documents

1920 473 No. 473. 4629/pol. The Representative of the Hungarian Government in Berlin, Baron Forster, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Teleki. [TRANSLATION] No. 151/pol. BERLIN, July 19, 1920. With reference to your code telegram No. 78.

1 I beg to report that the German Government, as soon as it learned of the escape of Béla Kun from Vienna, immediately instructed by telegram all frontier authorities to arrest Kun the moment he crossed the German frontier. Up to noon today no news has been received of Kun and it is to be feared that if he really attempted to get to Moscow through Germany he probably has already left German territory. Competent circles here discredit a telegram from Amsterdam according to which Kun would have already arrived in Moscow on the 17th. In the Foreign Office I have been assured that every agency which may in any way be concerned has been instructed to search for Kun and in case he is found to arrest him. I have adressed a request to the Estonian legation to have Kun arrested should he travel through Estonia. I shall report on any further development. No. 474. 21.321/9. The Hungarian Charge d'affaires in Vienna, Mr. Masirevich, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Teleki. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 316. VIENNA, July 20, 1920. The Vienna newspapers published this morning a report that the trade union council again held up a train load of Hungarian fruit in transit to Germany. In the absence of Chancellor Renner, I called on Minister Ippen at the Foreign Office and protested emphatically against holding up Hungarian transit 1 Supra, Doc. No. 464.