The Horning Post correspondent at Budapest, in a message published
on Monday, described the despair of the Hungarians.
They had been fooled for many weeks as to the progress of the campaign, and when they learned the bitter truth about Przemysl the revulsion of feeling was intense. The corre- spondent quotes an extraordinary passage from the As Est
Let us also take part in the wail and lamentation of Hungary. Let our Mara flow freely. Under the burden of so many blows and disappointments, it is no shams for men's hearts to break. The new official announcement regarding the losses at Przemysl is enough to put us beyond the border of self-control. That one
hundred and seventeen thousand of our Hungarian brethren should have been tortured and starved is more than we can bear.
. . We accepted the fall of the fortress, the fortress about which they made us write, and compelled us to make the people believe. that it was impregnable. We had to write that the Russians only captured a heap of ruins, and that the fall of Prsemyal was of no consequence. We wrote—and that they allowed us to write—that only forty thousand men were in the fortress, and that only eighty thousand Ruasian forces would be released. We wrote all this
and believed all this, and now we have to learn that not forty thousand but three times as many were there.... Let any one whom this announcement consoles step forward, or, indeed, any one who can preserve his equanimity. Such consolation is fit for tigers but not for the trembling millions of men anxious for their beloved." All the papers, we are told, apologize to their readers for having unknowingly deceived them. Meanwhile Count Tisza5 who was always loudly to the front, keep. silence.
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