RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

| (By Electric Telegraph—Conical.; PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. WARSAW, September 4. The Russian Soviet has agreed to jecommence peace negotiations with Poland at Riga. It is understood the Bolsheviks are now anxious for an immediate armistice with • Poland and that they will not propose any extreme terms owing to recent victories by the Poles. The Soviet has demanded certain guarantees respecting the immunity of the Russo-Ukranian delegation, and the right of unrestricted communication which the Polish Foreign Minister (Prince Saprieha) lias taken steps to secure. It is understood the peace nej gotiations will be resumed in the course I of the next week.

CIVIL WAll alleged. LONDON, September 3. A telegram from Polish sources, dated, September Ist., says that in consequence of the Soviet mobilisation, the Uknanian peasants have revolted, forming guerilla detachments,, which are marching against the towns that are the headquarters of the Bolsheviks. It is stated the provinces of Kharkoff, Khersan, Kieff, and Ekaterinoslan are in the midst of civil war, which is spreading to Volhynia, and Podolia. Similar movements are also stated to have broken out in the neighborhood of Odessa. LONDON, September 3. An acute position is reported to have risen between Poland and Lithuania | owing to the Polish troops on the prej text of cleaning up the remnants >f I the Bolshevik army, advancing into anj deniahly Lithuanian territory., A telegram from Kovna speaks of war being inevitable if this advance is continued. There liev been clashes between Poj lish and Lithuanian troops, in which i both sides suffered heavily. There are stated to have stimulated afresh long-

understanding ill-feeling between the two countries. The new idependent Lithuania formed part of the old Polish Kingdom. It is stated Poland only reluctantly, or half heartediy recognised Lithuanian independence. The towns of Grodno and Vilna have long been a bone of contention. Poland, however, has never renounced her claim to Vilna, which the Peace Conference assigned to Lithuania..

INTERNED BOLSHEVIKS CONDITION. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, September \ 3

The '‘Daily Express” correspondent in East Prussia gives a terrible picture of the internment of the Bolsheviks. Fifty thousands were in a space of a square mile, vyith little shelter from rain and slough of .mud, the rations are insufficient, forcing the killing and eating of horses, which were cooked by fires made from the wagons and other war material. Thousand? supposed, to ibe interned are roaming the country side menacing the peasantry while the cities are filled with German speculators eager to buy at bargain prices the thousands of ownerless horses believed to be stolen from Polish farmers.

ANOTHER. POLISH DANGER. (Received this day at 8 a.m.V NEW YORK, September 3. The Lithuanian Mission has transmitted a Note from Lithuania to Uriltrl States protesting against Poland’s impending advance into Lithuania and., threatening to defend Lithuanian boundaries to the bitter end against the Poles.