HUNGARY: Pauper?

The onetime "Richest Man in Hungary," Count Michael Karolyi, deposed and banished President of the defunct Hungarian Republic (1918-19), received at Mexico City, last week, two quaintly different cablegrams.

His Budapest attorney, the distinguished Dr. Nagy, cabled that, since all Count Karolyi's estates have been seized by the State, the Hungarian Royal Court has now "admitted him to the privileges of the poor," and inscribed his name in The Book of Paupers.

Simultaneously the Count's attorneys in Vienna cabled that the Republican Courts of Austria have denied him the right to plead as...

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