POLAND'S PERIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1920, Page 5

POLAND'S PERIL.

ALLIES suggest peace.

•Overtures to tee bolsheviks. • ——— $7 Triepaph.—Prm Aisn.—CopyrlchL Received July 12, 5 5 p.m. Spa, July 12. It is reported that, as a result of M. Grabski's request for Allied intervention, pointing out that the Polish foreign polley is misunderstood, the Allies sent a Note to-Russia, proposing an immediate armistice Poland on condition that the Poles withdraw to their own fronthe armistice to be follewed by a petoe conference, in which all States borRussia will participate. TneW&te aids: If the Bolsheviks in- ■ mdt-PelMd, the Allies will give Poland every possible assistance. , It 'is officially denied that Britairf is i propottoga. separate peace with Russia. - <*tfue.«N.Z. Gable Assn.

fH£ RETREAT CONTINUES.

;• kaiion arming for defence. Paris, July 11Advices from Kovno state that the- ,■ Bolsheviks have occupied Minsk. It ;3 reported from Breslau that the Polish Aftny has evacuated Brest Litovsk. - Warsaw, July 11. A communique states: Under strong pismire the Poles jhave fallen back from the Bereetna line. The Bolsheviks cros? Ed the Pripet, bttt were driven back with heavy losseei to south of the Pripet. The .. Poles hive falfen back to the'other side of Sar&y, &bd the Poles have fallen back t&> BflWw2Jw<*»ding to plan- ' * *T!t# £ble*, TeaHsing that they must bs self-reliant, are rallying splendidly for home defence. Nearly half a million ad- - litioiud workers: have enlisted, of whom 100,000 are jn lwtive service. The police volunteered en, masse. The shoemakers i organising a regiment named Kilin&l, in memory of the famous cobbler hero of the struggle of 1784.—Times Scrice.

THE FUTURE OF POLAND.

ALLIES SUGGEST ARMISTICE. New York, July 11. <■ The S0& correspondent of the New: York Herald states that Mr. Lloyd George and M. Millerand flatly refused Poland's request to receive munitions and supplies delivered to the Allies by Germany. Thaßeho de Paris says that Mr. Lloyd George, after consulting representative* of France and Italy,, is sending a Note to Moscow making the resumption of commercial, and probably of political relations, dependent on an immediate armistice to Poland, stating that the Powers - thereafter -will fix the frontier in agreement with Moscow. In the event of a -tefusal he- will send help to Poland. The Echo de Paris contends that a prerequisite to the policy of bringing France in touch with Moscow must be Moscow's recognition of the Russian debt and guarantees from. Russia and from Poland respecting the future. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable A«n.

1 Spa, July 11 Th« conference decided to place transport arrangements at Dantzig under a joint commission of Poles and representatives of the Free City of Dantzig. Its chairman will be stelected by, and represent, the*, League of Nations.

A high Ukrainian representative, referrinjf to• the Bolshevik operations towards Warsaw, remarked to a newspaper eorrMpondent: "The gamf is up. Poland la completely beaten "