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the town. In the morning of 1 November, the reserve units of the Imperial and Royal 32nd
Field Rifle Battalion and the Royal Hungarian 3rd Artillery Regiment set up officers’ detach-
ments comprising 5-10 people. By force of arms, the detachments stopped the soldiers from
pillaging. A few soldiers were killed, hundreds of them arrested. The officer’s court-martial
sentenced over a hundred soldiers to death, 34 of whom were shot. That afternoon, two Hon-
véd companies marched into the town, and order was restored. 52
On 1 November, on the arrival of their train in Temesvár (Timičoara), the revolting Czech
dragoons of the Imperial and Royal 4th Cavalry Division, together with Russian prisoners-
of-war that they had armed, opened fire at the Central Railway Station and intended to march
into the town. Lieutenant Colonel Albert Bartha, the military commissioner of the newly
established Council of the People of the Banat, and former chief of staff of the Temesvár
(Timičoara) military headquarters, detailed the boarders of the local military cadet school to
drive back the revolting soldiers, which they did with success. 53
On 2 November, a Military Council was set up in Nagyszeben (Sibiu), too, and took an
oath to the Hungarian National Council. That evening, the soldiers of the 82nd “common”
and 23rd Honvéd Infantry Regiments were looting together with the crowd, and the military
police unit of the 82-ers failed to bring the events to an end. 54

52 Ibid: 286-288.
53 Ibid: 284-285.
54 Ibid: 280-281.