RUSSIAN SOVIET

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 80, 29 December 1920, Page 5

RUSSIAN SOVIET

NEGOTIATIONS WITH POLAND BROKEN OFF

NO NEED TO FULFIL OBLIGATIONS . _ 4y Tolosr&pn-Presß Aiaocmtion-Oopyrlßht Warsaw, December 27. • J Negotiations between Poland ana . the f Russian Soviet at Riga have been broken i off. Citizen Jofi'e, head of the Soviet 3 delegation, declared that the interna- 1 tional situation for Russia was now so good that the question of fulfilling obl'i : g.itions to Poland was no longer important, and there was no need to repatriate the Polish war prisoners, as Russia was ' making good use of them.—Aus.-N.Z. ' Cable Assn. I MARTEffiIECALLED ; AMERICAN CONTRACTS TO BE CAN- ' CELLED. New York, December 27. ' Martens, the'unrecognised Soviet "Ambassador," whom the United States- Government ordered to be deported, has received a cable message from Tchitcherin, the Soviet Foreign Minister, ordering him to cancel all contracts with American firms (aggregating fifty million dollars) ' and return to Russia immediately.—Aus.- ' N.Z. Cablo Assn. < • ■ ~' I ANOTHER RED OFFENSIVE IMMINENT ; TROOPS CONCENTRATING NEAR < RUMANIAN FRONTIER. Belgrade, December 27. Russian Bolsheviks are concentrating ( near the Rumanian,, frontier, especially at Kamanelis Podolsk, Mohiloff, and Odessa. Refugees state that an offensive n imminent.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. armenlaTsoviet REPUDIATES FINANCIAL OBLIGA- , ■ TIONS. , Constantinople, December 26. Having decreed the abolition of private : property,, the puppet Armenian Soviet ' 1 has taken the second regular stop in Bolshevism, and has repudiated all financial obligations.—"The Times."