SOVIET AIMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1920, Page 5

SOVIET AIMS.

* CONDITIONS FOR PEACE. ; k BOLSHEVISING POLAND, ta Fm» Asm.—Copyright. Received July 21, 8 p.m. London, July 20. The latest advices from Moscow show that successes in Poland have completely restored the confidence of the Bolsheviks, and have revived firm demands for international recognition of the Soviet. The newspaper Pravda insists on the right of the Bolsheviks to dictate peace in Warsaw, and virtually to Bolshevise Poland. ' Ap article in the newspaper Izvestia declares that the Soviet is only willilK tp deal with Western European Soveirßnieflts on a footing of perfc rquality, and does not accept the dictation of England, who, it declares, overHtimates her powers, and does not hold 1 She full confidence of the Allies. - Krasain, writing is the Krasnaya. Seistjte, Says Russia is quite prepared to iiilfc..*. general peace on tie basis of recognition the Soviet, and would only flljnna trade thereafter. Trotsky is U*6 busy writing to newspapeH vaunting the . successes of the Bolshevik arms,'which, he asserts, are unaided by I linple'German officer.—United Service.

BRITAIN'S WARNING.

r trCOPPAGE OF TRADE PLANS. . . Received July 22, 1,15 a.m. ; ! : ' London, July 20. , fiis understood the British .reply to ' tfc# Russian Note threatens to break off trade- negotiations if the Bolsheviks inOde 'Poland.—Reuter Service. ATTITUDE OP BOLSHEVIKS. PEACE, BUT NOT BY ALLIES. London, July 20. The Bolsheviks' reply has reached Mr. Geofge. It rejects the British propyls regarding Poland, and suggests that the Bolsheviks are prepared to give Poland better terms, than the Allies propose, but refuses to consider any Allied' intervention. The Bolsheviks arc ready to make a just peaoe by means \ of direct negotiations with Poland, lie rmjjr adds that General Wrangel must eurn»der all territory, and war 1 iihaterial, .then be and his army will be ' an aJnnesty.—Aus.-NX Cable juan. ■' ■ BOLSHEVIKS IN BESSARABIA. Received July 2lj 515 p.m. , ' Vienna, July 20. It is reported a Bolshevik force entered Be&arabia, and is advancing into ' the interior:—'United Service. [Bessarabia is in the extreme southWist of European Russia, between the ilack Sea ihd Dneister!]