transmitted them to Károlyi in a very emphatic communication which reproduced our point of view in its entirety. On the following day Lieutenant-Colonel Vyx notified Dr. Hodža officially of the Paris resolution, and Dr. Hodža transmitted this to the Government at Prague in the following terms:
The Czechoslovak delegate to-day received this communication from Lieutenant-Colonel Vyx:
The Czechoslovak State has been recognized by the Allies. Its troops are recognized as Allied troops. The Czechoslovak State, therefore, is entitled to occupy the Slovak territory in the capacity of a belligerent Power, participating in the fulfilment of the Armistice which stipulates the occupation of the territory of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
The Magyar Government is requested to withdraw its troops from Slovak territory.
From the news which reached me from Prague, it would appear that the first set of instructions supplied to Lieutenant-Colonel Vyx provided for the evacuation of Slovakia, but he did not receive any precise indication of the frontiers to which the Magyars were to conform. As I have mentioned, in the course of my negotiations at the Quai d’Orsay between November 20th and 25th, I had suggested a line of demarcation for Slovakia, consisting of the Carpathians, the River Morava, the Danube as far as the Ipola, from the Ipola to Rimavská Sobota, from Rimavská Sobota in a direct line to the confluence of the River Už with the Bereg, and from there along the course of the Už to the Carpathians. Moreover, I had been informed that these details had been telegraphed to Budapest. Dr. Hodža pointed out to Lieutenant-Colonel Vyx that if the evacuation line was not defined, difficulties would arise, and he therefore asked him to obtain further instructions from Paris immediately. He also at once applied to Prague, urging the authorities there to intervene in Paris, telegraphed to me by way of Salonica, and besides this wrote a letter to me direct. As the result of the telegraphic demand from Prague, I again intervened in the requisite sense, emphasizing the need for sending precise and emphatic instructions to Budapest on the subject of the demarcation line, and also insisting upon the prompt evacuation of Slovakia.
In the meanwhile, Dr. Hodža, fearing the possibility of further complications, reached an agreement on December 6th, 1918, with Dr. V. Bartha, the Magyar Minister of War, for establishing a provisional line of demarcation, to hold good only until fresh instructions arrived from Paris. They then
