RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

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COUNCIL OF ACTION LONDON, August 17. The Council of Action is appealing to all workers to organise on 21st. August as “peace with Russia Sunday” including every city, town and village throughout the country, holding mass ->*•- demonstrations in favour of an immediate Russo-British peace. “No more support for French militarism, no more trickery.” Mr Brace, President of South Wales miners: interviewed, deprecated the proposal to keept the Council of Action permanently sitting. He said chaos and confusion would follow such a course. However, they should now concentrate upon the Russo-Polish situa- 4 tion, the cancellation of the Supreme Council and the establishment of machinery to make the League of Nations effective, with a view to securing world peace. ‘

THE RED WAY. STOCKHOLM, August 16. i.ie Bolshevist organ “Syvestia” publishes an order issued by the Soviet authorities at Kieff, ordering no forbearance towards tlio population of Poland. The population of Endre districts Nare almost completely annihilated. The rich farmers are exterminated and all agricultural produce seized. Anybody found in possession of a single cartridge „ is executed. '

WHANGED HEAVILY ENGAGED. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 16. Heavy fighting is in progress in the Crimea. Bolsheviks from the Polish front are attacking vigorously, supported hv massed aeroplane bombing. General Wrangel is holding his own. Wrangel’s raiders crossed the Don and occupied Konstantinovskaya, cutting the Tsbritzyn—Sek'aterinodar railway and threatening to isolate the Kuban Cossacks.

LABOR MEN EXPELLEP. PARIS, Aug. 18

The French Government has expelled Mr Adamson and Mr Gosling, the British Labourites. Mr Adamson, who is the Leader of the British Labour Party, went with Mr Gosling to France, as the result of a decision of the British Labour Council of Action. Their mission was to concert united steps between British and French Labourites to prevent the Allies giving military aid tp Poland, or declaring iyar themselves against Russia, by means of direct fiction if necessary,

LLOYD GEORGE-

A REPLY TO KAMENOFF,

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 17.

Hon. Lloyd George replying to Kamenoff’s letter cabled yesterday, stains after the withdrawal of the Deniken Government he was only concerned to ensure the security of the troops and refugees under Wrangel, and to put them in a jjosition to defend themselves in the Crimea until a guarantee of safety wa6 accorded them. Government had no intention of encouraging Wrangel’s offensive and as soon as it heard of such a possibility, Britain issued a warning regarding it, and intimating they would not have any responsibility for it, as<J would immediately withdraw the |Jri r tish military mission. Hon. Lloyd George further points out that Kamenoff’s account of the Britislr-

proposal of 11th. July is inaccurate

The British Government did not reply to Tchicherin’s telegram' of 11th. June J/ecause active negotiations were then proceeding with Krassin. The Bptjsh suggested an armistice should lie signed with Wrangel, conditional op Warpgel’s forces retiring to Crimea and that Wrangel should be invited to London to discuss the future of his troops and refugees he was defending, but not as a member of the conference. Thp pbjeet of the proposal was to end hostilities in eastern Europe. He emphasised the British anxiety was a pjfrt of the Gppe— British anxiety was a part of the genpr secure tlie persona] safety of troops and, refugees in Crimea, but not iptppdjng to detach the Crimea from RussTp or cure its possession for Wrangel. Government entirely adheres fo this aftir tilde and has no intention of recognising Wrangel or assisting Inin, and if ip only in the event of the Soviet pro* posing terms to Poland infringing the independence of Poland that Britain would feel 1 wund to reconsider this attitude.