The drum! What has the Town Crier to say now?... “It is forbidden to wear or exhibit any emblems....” Presently two hooligans invaded us and tore down our flag, but we don’t care. The whole village is in a ferment. Patrol followed patrol. A man feverishly pasted pink posters on the walls, displaying the telegram of the Secretariat of the Socialist-Communist Party. “As the result of an agreement with the Entente, a WORKMEN’S GOVERNMENT formed by the trade-unions has assumed power. The officials of the existing workmen’s organisations will continue to act without interference.... The strictest martial law is to be proclaimed.” Green posters were then stuck up beside the pink ones all along the street, containing the text of the new Government’s telegram. They called themselves a Workmen’s Government instead of a Revolutionary Cabinet, Ministers instead of Commissaries. President: Peidl; Interior: Peyer; Justice: Garami-Grünfeld; then followed three of Béla Kun’s Commissaries: Agoston-Augenstein for Foreign Affairs, Haubrich for War and Dovcsák for Commerce; at the end of the list the former President of the Soviet, Garbai, Minister for Education. I remembered the conversation I had overheard yesterday: “Let us lead it into other channels....” Moritz Kohn has arranged his fraudulent bankruptcy and suddenly Mrs. Moritz Kohn’s name appears above the shop. But what is the National Army doing? The Dictatorship of the Soviet collapsed with the Red army; its position became hopeless on the 31st of July when it became known that the Rumanians would not stop a second time at the Tisza. Béla Kun had hurriedly convoked the Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council of Five Hundred yesterday afternoon. And in the great hall of the new town hall, where on the 21st of March a handful of men had proclaimed the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, Béla Kun resigned in a halting, tearful voice. During the night he fled with the other Commissaries and their families to Austria, finding protection under the wings of their co-religionist Chancellor Renner. With the help of the Peidl Government they made their way to the frontier, _protected by an escort supplied by the Italian military mission in Budapest_! It is said that Számuelly has disappeared. But among those who fled with Béla Kun was the bloodthirsty Weiss—and so were Schwarz, Vágó and Pogány, and the twenty-stone lawyer, Comrade Landler, the Red Commander-in-Chief. They absconded from their army between the Danube and the Tisza, after having driven it into death and destruction, though they had sworn to stand by it to the last drop of blood.