RUSSIA AND POLAND.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3601, 13 October 1920, Page 5

RUSSIA AND POLAND.

UPROOTING THE REDS. MANY RISINGS~"IN RUSSIA. WARSAW, October 11. Reports are current of a "multiplicity of risings against the Reds in different r parts of Russia. 1L reliable source t learn s tha.' the peasants in the'Saral | toff district have revolted on a huge n scale. Communist forces "nave been Y j sent to suppress anctlu .• peasant ris- - | ing- , i It is reported at Smolensk that j ! Chinese troops stamped out a revolt at r | Kronstadt with much bloodshed. . | It is stated that social revolution- . . aries from Petrovisky, Spiridonova, Tartof s and TscheTnott" gathered at , Nijni Novgorod, denounced tne Moscow Government and issued a call for summoning a constituent assembty. OCCUPATION OF VILNA. ' ELATION THROUGHOUT POLAND. WARSAW, October 11. . ZeligOwski and staff resigned their commands in the Bliah army, stating • that if they refused to lead the troops they would have gone :!o Vilina leaderless. The Polish army commander de- , scribes the divisional_act.ion &§ mutiny. The French met Zeligowski and proposed that Vilna Should be a free town. ' Zeligowski refused. \ The news was received with the greatest elation throughout Poland. \ Public opinion will not allow the Government to disavow occupation. VILNA OCCUPATION DISCUSSED. LONDON, October 12. Therg is . much discussion in diplomatic circles as regards Zelignowski's seizure of Vi'lna as the French and British Governments repeatedly advised Poland to exercise moderation, especially in connection with Vilna. Some make the excuse that the Polish leader is copying D'Anhunzio's feat. POLISH COMMANDER RESIGNS. Received 10.10 a.m. LONDON, October 12. It is reported that Zelignowski's action in resigning Eis command in the Polish Army is due io the fact that his troops are chiefly, inhabitants of the'Vilna and Grodno districts. The Lithuanian Government confiscated the property of'Lithuanians serving in the Polish army, designating them as traitors. Zelignowski's troops resented the armistice giving Vilna to the Lithuanians without consulting the inhabitants regarding right of self de■.terminatiop. The League of Nation's at present traversing Poland but'the feelings of the Poles towards the Mission are not amiable. EVIDENCE OF BOLSHEVIK BUTCHERY. LONDON, October 12. Zelignowski's men recently disinterred 1500 bodies of Poles butchered by the Bolsheviks during the recent occupation of Vilna whom the Lithuanian to protect.