RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

(By Electric Telegraph—Cooyn^ni.) POLISH NEWS. LONDON, October 11. Warsaw news is to the effect that General Tcligowski and his staff have now ""resigned their commands of the Polish Army at Vilna. They state that if they had refused to. lead' the troops there, the troops would have gone to Vilna leader less Tlie Polish Army commander describes the divisional action as a mutiny. The French met General Zeligowski and proposed that Vilna should be a Free Town but Zeligowski refused. The news was received with the greatest elation throughout Poland and public opinion will not allow the Polish Government to disavow the occupation of Vilna. RUSSIAN REPORT. WARSAW, October 11. Reports are still current of a multiplicity of.risings against the Reds in different parts of Russia. A reliable source learns that persants in the Saratoff district have revolted oil-a large scale, > and that Communist forces have been sent to suppress them. Another peasant rising is reported at Smolensk. Chinese troops are alleged to have stamped out a revolt at Kronstadt with must bloodshed. It is also stated that some social Revolutionaries from Petrovisky, Spirdonova, Tartofs, and Tschernoff gathered at Nijni-Novgorod and denounced the Moscow Government and issued a call for summoning the Constitutional Assembly. POLES’ COUP DISCUSSED. LONDON, Oct. 12. There is now much discussion in diplomatic circles as regards General Zelignowski’s seizure of Vilna. It is claimed the French and British Governments repeatedly advised Poland to exercise moderation, especially in connection with Vilna. Some make the excuse that the Polish leader has been copying D’Anpun•gio’s feat at Fiume. It is alleged General Zelignowski’s men recently disinterred 1500 bodies of Poles who were butchered by the Bolsheviks during the latter’s recent occupation of Vilna, and whom the Lithuanian Government refused to protect. A POLISH EXPLANATION. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) WARSAW, Oct. 11. An official message excuses General Zeligowski’s coup d’etat in capturing Vilna, stating it was due to his men’s exasperation over fresh acts of violence and reprisals by the Lithuanian Government against Polish families.