Monday, August 25, 2014

War Preparations

Pulszky, from his own standpoint, his news for the Daily Tribune were partly auspicious and partly disappointing at the end of September.
Turkey was assembling troops on Russia's frontier (so the war, long-awaited, b the emigration, was imminent), and arrests and executions took place inside Hungary (as the conspirators were again discovered and the chances of a rising annulled).
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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Government Spies

As the English police would not oversee the activities of Kossuth and his followers, Austria had to find means to watch them.
The Government in Vienna kept a ring of spies around the Kossuthites in England such as "Berndorf" an unidentified correspondent of Schwarzenberg, who sent his nom de plume letters from Pulszky's enterage, or Istvan varga, who kept contacts with Kossuth's sisters in Hungary, or Mr Loosey in America whose tasks had been to trace every step of the Hungarian colony there.
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