RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

(By Electric Telegraph—Conyrik.it. \ A SPY CENTRE. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 23. Commandant Grevo, representative of the German Red Cross has been arrested at Posen on suspicion of espionage. Grove’s office is described as a spy centre.

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. WARSAW, Oct. 23. The Diet unaniinmously ratified the Treaty of Riga. The Marshal of the Diet, said Poland was endeavouring to settle frontier to mutual interests of Russia and Poland. The conditions there were not dependant on the military situation. Poland was not taking advantage of the last conquest and did not propose on Russia a peace at variance with justice. Lithuania, at the' instance of the League of Nations Commission to control Suwalki, sent its League representative and staff to Warsaw to negotiate with Poland. The Lithuanian! army on the left hank of the Viliya has been withdrawn to a position mid-way between Vilna and Kovno.

TO ATTACK WRANGEL. NEW YORK, Oct. 23. Information has been received in offi. cial circles indicating the Bolsheviks are transferring some of their best troops from the Polish front to Sontli Russia, for a new offensive against Wrangel, in an effort to exterminate his forces. It is /expected before the next spring Wrangel and the Bolsheviks will be engaged in a life and death struggle.

THREAT OF WAR. (Received this day at 8 a.m.l LONDON, October 25. The “Daily Express” Berlin correspondent reports Bast Prussia is going to war with Poland owing to the Vilna coup. Many well disciplined and well armed troops are ready to march A o tfye aid iof Lithuania. ' East Prussia, is strongly Junker and reactionary, and! boyoiid dontr.ol of the Central Government. It is nSt likely France will allow any part of Germany to attack Poland.