RUSSIA AND POLAND.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3587, 25 September 1920, Page 5

RUSSIA AND POLAND.

A RUSSIAN REVERSE.

Received 9.40 a.m

VIENNA, Sept. 24

Petioura has broken the resistance of the Bolsheviks and thrown them back to the east side of the river Sbrusz. The "Ukrainian advance guai-ds are now approaching Damon-etz-Podolsk. POLISH TERMS OF PEACE, RIGA, Sept. 22. The Polish National Council is presenting terms of peace, including an armistice line along the Beresina, which will necessitate the Bolsheviks handing over Minsk, Vilna, Lemberg, and Tarbaovsk, in Eastern Galieia, if the armistice is to become operative. LONDON, Sept. 23.

The Lithuanians and Poles are apparently obstinately determined to avert peace despite protestations to the contrary. Advices from Warsaw state that the armistice is denounced owing to Lithuanian breaches of faith, particularly as regards military relations with R'dssia, prejudicing Po and". They state :hat a number of Spa;tacists from Prussia passed through Lithuania fighting in the Soviet ranks, while the Lithuanians mobilised forces which are maintaining an aggressive attitude.