RUSSIAN MIX-UP

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP

(By Electric Telegraph—Coavright .)

I POLISH DECISION. BERLIN, August 22. ' - Polish leaders in Kattowitz accepted the Inter-Alli'ed Commission’s proposals; namply the disarming of the population, repeal of the Stale of . siege, creation of neutral safety guard, cessation of the strike and resumption pf work. THE REASON WHY. LONDON, Aug. 22. j TJie Polish Legation announces riots ill Kattowitz were due to Germans being elated at the Bolshevik’s advancei on Warsaw. Germans were jll-t -eating the Polish population and set fire to the quarters of the Inter-Allied Commission and Polish plebiscite commission. Germans declare they will retake all tlie lost territory with the LolI shevik*g aid. 1 POLES ADVANCING. BERLIN, August 22 Poles, advancing against Russians, recaptured the towns of Strasburg and Neumark, afterwards courtmartialiing and shooting eight Germans for alleged actively supporting tlie Russians. COUNCIL OF ACTION. LONDON, August 2,3. The Council of Action and other labour organisations held demonstrations in man}- .parts of the country urging peace with Russia, and full recogni- . tion of the Soviet Government. A large crowd made a demonstration in } Trafalgar Square. ( PARIS, August 23. ,

A dispatch, from Lucerne states Hon Lloyd George and Signor Giolitti urge Russia and Poland to conclude an immediate peace on the basis of mutual concessions. LONDON, August 23. Poland now demands the Soviet Government to grant self-determination to all peoples formerly included in Poland. A Lso an effective guarantee tigainst Soviet interference with Poland’s internal The latest returns show 15,000 red prisoners had been counted. Fifteen hundred crossed into German territory and were disarmed. , The “Daily Nows” Paris correspondent says France advised the Poles to I' ~

reject the Bolshevik terms. She ap-. patently considers the acceptance - thereof is only possible by a defeated! country, but disarmament might be accepted if Russia agrees to disarm si ::■! kanccusly. This is improbable in j view of the danger from Wrangel in the South. VIENNA, August 22.

Messages from Eastern Galicia state the Red offensive against Lemberg is a complete failure. Violent efforts were made on Thursday and Fridajy to retake the town, but the Poles drove the enemy back a considerable distance, Budeny’s cavalry narrowly escaping annihilation. The Polish press is unanimously demanding the rejection of the Bolshevik terms. It is expected the Minsk negotiations will fail. PARIS, August 22. Foreign Office advices from Warsaw-, state thi’jeo Bolshevik armies in Poland are completely cut off from each other. According to a Bolshevist wireless from Moscow, Reds have abandoned Brest Litvosk. BERLIN, August 23. It is reported that German workmen in Dantzig have proclaimed a Soviet, and announced the blockade of Poland. They refused to permit the French cruiser Gueymon to dock. THE KATTOWITZ OUTBREAK. BERLIN, Aug. 22. Insurgents are overrunning Kattowitz. The bulk of the population fled. Sanguinary fighting occurred in some districts in which Poles disarmed the police. 'Advices from Breslau states the Poles have oc’upied Katowitz, Paris, Aug. 22.

AVallaee, addressing the Knights of Columbus, at‘Metz said imperial autocracy, once overthrown on the battlefield, would not be allowed to risp again through excesses of a barbprous proletariat, nor would the great battle for civilisation he won in the west. It would be lost in the East.

The “Journal’s” Warsaw correspondent reports the Poles insist on file recognition of Ukraine’s independence. St Brice commenting, describes the demand as contrary to the Anglo-Anjeri-can programmes, respecting the integrity of the territories of former Russia and added that this is the principal obstacle to peace. «s

INDIGNANT PRESS, LONDON, Aug. 23, The French press is indignant at Tower’s reported refusal to permit the landing of munitions at Dantzig, unless the Allies provide twenty thousand troops to control tho extremist elements in the population. The newspapers declare Towers is guilty of a breach of the spirit of the Versailles -Treaty, which made Danzig a free port, and also call attention to the action of Danzig municipal council in announcing its neutrality, which amounts to a refusal to .accept the Versailles Treaty which gave Poland the direction of Danzig’s foreign pqljcy.

POLISH CAPTURES. WARSAW, Aug. 23. A communique states 35,0Q0 Refls were prisonered. General Weygapd de : clares Poland has become file grave of three-quarters pf the Red Army. ■ AN INTERVIEAV. NEAV YORK, Aug. 23. The New York “World's” correspondent interviewed Padehvski at Aix les Bains, regarding the Polish situation. Paderwski attributes the Eojish defeu+ to superior Russian cavalry and lack of .horses in Polaiuj. The Polish front is more than a thousand miles and the Poles have unsufficient troo-ps to defend the whole line. Poland cannot apeept the Soviet terms, requiring Poljsh disT armament, as that wpujd mean thg end of Polish independence, THE POLISH ADVANCE, BERLIN, August 23. Latest messages indie,ate top Poles havic eached Mlawa, 60 miles north of Warsaw, their Jinn thence running northward to Prozagnysz and southward to Ostroleuka and on to Maref, Portion of the Fourth Red A-my continued to enter German territory. Fifteen hundred of them have already been disarmed. The -Polish centre is approaching. the raiway from Ostroleuka to Bialystock. They crossed the river near Brian sic, 80 miles north-east of Warsaw. The Poles are said to have now taken Kattowitz, where the German caused riots. The Poles also took Neuinark and Strasburg. The Reds are failing to take Lemberg. : ~-

THE PRESENT POSITION. LONRON, August 23. Allied military men at Warsaw eoj); Isider that while thp Poles have won q great victory, the danger is not over, | as, notably north pf Warsaw thp Rod opposition is stiffening , Meanwhile the Reds are attempting an encircling movement across the Vistula, and the Posen districts, with • a view to threatening Warsaw from the West. The fate of the Red "forces who reached the Danzig corridor appears to hang on tlie rapidity pf the Polish adyapee between Qstrolepka apd Biply.stock; The north-western Red Army is eg timated variously at between twenty - five and forty thousand of which six thousand are cavalry. They are continual sending out wireless messages for help, Poland now demands that the Soviet Government grant self-determination to all peoples formerly included in Poland also effective guarantees against Soviet interference with Poland’s internal affairs.?. It is stated that throe Bolshevik armies in Poland were completely cut off from each other. According to a Bolshevist wireless from Moscow the Reds abandoned Brest-Litovsli.