SOVIET AND POLAND

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 62, 7 December 1920, Page 7

SOVIET AND POLAND

• * WAR DISCUSSED AT GENEVA ASSEMBLY REASONS FOR COUNCIL'S' INACTIVITY UrTdegraph-Presi AMooUUon-OopyrlfM Geneva, December i. Mr. George Barnes addre&ed the Assembly on the question of the fighting between the Soviet and : Poland. He declared that the Council of the League, under Ai'ticlo Eleven, would have been fully justifiod in intervening. Tho Soviet had declared that it was prepared t'p recognise the Polish Republic, and did not want to fight Poland. Therefore the Assembly and tho world were ontitled to know the reasons for tho Council's inactivity. M. Bourgeois (Franco), replying, taid that noitlier Poland nor. tho Soviet had Asked for intervention; nor did any country, not even Britain, ask the Council to intervene. The Soviot had denied tho universality of the League. M. Paderewski (Poland) admitted that a largo number of people blamed Poland for tho present conditions; but Poland had been compelled to fight a new force more destructive than those engaged in i(he Great War. Poland l was still en* gaged in pourparler for peace. She was not anxious for another war. If it broke out again it .would not, bo Poland's fault. After a (discussion the subject was dropped—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DISEASED REFUGEES IN POLAND APPALLING PROSPECTS. London, December 1. As the result of Bolshevik victories, 30,000 of Petlura's soldiers, with women and children, are again invading Poland, in a demoralised, diseased, and indescribable condition. This 16 the third time Poland has had to rcceivo a fugitive army, and the prospects are appalling.— Ausi-N.Z. Cable Assn.