NEW ENEMY FOR POLAND

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1920, Page 5

NEW ENEMY FOR POLAND

BREACH WITH LITHUANIA, • J J 'N(J OLD STANDING Br Telegraph,—Press Asan.—Copyist V Received Sept. 4, 5J> p.m.. . ,* ' ' i'.li London) Sept. | An acute position has arisen Poland and Lithuania to Ponth-J troops, on a pretext of cleaning up r<m-'-i; nanta of the Bolalievik army, adv^nctnjfet into undeniably Lithuanian territory, £■"?, telegram from Kovno speaks of v&r be' ing inevitable if the advance coiliiniiei, 's' Olaaliea between Polish and J troops, in which both sides heavily, stimulated afresh long standing ill-feeling between the two foufctrfei. The new independent Lithuania tornutC l part of the old Polish kingdom) utd< 3 Poland only reluctantly and half. 1 heartedly recognised Lithuanian l pendence. The towns of Grodno- 4ndi Vilna have long been a bone of cM* tention. Poland never renounced eqr 1 claim to Vilna, which the Peace pbnfpr* -I enee definitely assigned to Lithuania.—* Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. • . vjw PROTEST TO AMERICA. ' i FIGHT TO THE BITTER ENP. Received Sept. 5, U. 5 p.m. 1 f New York, Sept. 3, J The Lithuanian mission has trass- J mitted a. Note from Lithuania to the ' United States protesting against Po* .J land's impending advance into LitJtu- J ania, and threatening to defend Lithufcnia boundaries to the bitter end against S the Poles.—Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn. '. ;|