POLES' ADVANCE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 199, 18 May 1920, Page 7

POLES' ADVANCE

ACTION BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS URGED / / INTERVENTION DECLARED IMPOSSIBLE (3y Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, May 16. The League of Nations Union publishes correspondence between Lord Eobert Cecil and Lord Curzon on the subject of the Polish advance, Lord Cecil, writing on May 3, strongly condemns the Polish offensive, and hopes the British Government will immediately -summon the Council of the League of Nations to deal with the situation. Lord Curzon (Foreign Minister) replied on May 12. He denied that Poland had been preparing to. .attack Russia for months past, and declared.that the Poles lmd been- making genuine endeavour's to open peace negotiations, and that the negotiations were only abandoned when the Poles learned. that the- Bolsheviks were concentrating opposite their front a large supply of guns and materials captured from General Denikin. Lord Curzon says it is impossible to invoke the intervention of the League of Nations to check an offensive iii an unfinished war. The League of' Nations would be in a difficult position if it attempted to medi. ate between Poland and the Russian.Government, which did not recognise the authority of the League. Lord Curzon disagrees with.Lord Cecil's view that F.sthonia and Latvia are hostile to Poland. Lord Cecil replied on May 13. He dwelt on the disease, starvation, and mis. ery in Eastern Europe, and hoped that even now steps would be taken to retrieve the position.—AuSrN.Z. Cable Assn. - >■ ',*" kieff Head city EESULT OF BOLSHEVIK OCCUPATION. ' . Warsaw, May 16. Kieff shows melancholy signs of thu Bolshevik occupation. It is a dead city, with its factories silent and decaying, the shops shut and smashed, the University deserted, and the water sup-' ply station wrecked. Everywhere ]s filth arid disorder. The Bolsheviks left many wounded, shot down by their ,owu machine-guns. 'The Polish advance^on the Dnieper was 'strongly resisted only at two points, one where a Chinese regiment held'tho , position to the last man, and the .other where several-armoured, cars manned by Germans fought -their way through after ! they wore cut off. . The Russian regiments broke under the first shock, and surrendered when they, were outmanoeuvred.—"The Times."