INTERNAL RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1920, Page 3

INTERNAL RUSSIA.

Heutor’g telegram* GERMANY AND POLAND. WARSAW, Dec. 10. Germany has declared an economic war on Poland. She is refusing both Polish exports and imports. This is aggravating the exchange position, which already is very bad.

THE BOLSHEVIK DOCTRINE. ' PARIS, Dec. 10

Reports from Poland state that the Bolsheviks are employing fifteen thousand agents abroad. Secret printing offices are working in England, four in. England, four in France and seven in America. Eight thousand agents are employed in England, >5lO in Italy', 600 in Poland, where they have discontinued the importation of literature from France and Italy, as all literatuie is. now printed locally and secretly. Every Enropean country lias its Bol‘slievist library. They spent ninety million roubles in Poland during April alone. A SOVIET WARNING. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, December 12. The Soviet representative at Kovna warned Lithuania that the Moscow Government would not sanction the occupati’on of Vilsna region by international detachments on belialf of the League of Nations during the plebiscite, such occupation infringing the RussoLithuanian peace treaty. BERLIN, Dec. 10. The German Government reply to an Allied note regarding disarmament and self-defence forces, claims the complete surrender of arms, docs not apply tc Bavaria and East Prussia. The former is still completely under the influents of the Soviet regime and self-defence forces cannot be disarmed, so long a: they are . confronted with the possibility and defencelessness against re weapons, while East Prussia is sufferiiif weapons, while East Russia is sufferin' a. warlike act on the frontiers and th< entry of portions of the Russo-Polisl armies, and she must Supplement he inadequate state forces.