POLAND'S EXPANSION.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1920, Page 5

POLAND'S EXPANSION.

TOO MUCH TERRITORY TAKEN. OF MAP INEVITABLE. Br SWwaph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Oct. 10. Mr. Garvin writes in the Observer:— "The Poles' triumph is dazzling, but it Is * most sinister omen that they have doubled the territory awarded them at the Versailles Conference. They now rule non-Polish races 200 miles eastward. Their population is larger than that of Spain, and their fighting forces exceed fjmmnj's Poland seems to have a fair chance of ranking as a great nation, yet nothing is more certain than that she will sever retain her. present space on the map. They have knocked the bottom put of "the League of Nations. . The recovery of Russia and Germany It «nly a question of tame, and it is certain that these two will make common cause against Poland. Huge revisions of tin eastisrn map must come. Will they tntnf another war, or can diplomacy prevail!"— United Service.

JBMISTICE IGNORED. , JTHUANIA SUFFERS. London, Oct. 10. The correspondent of the Times at Karoo reports that serious apprehension has been caused by the news that the Poles nave entered Vilna, this despite the Snwtljd Conference and the intervention of the League of Nations. The Poles are making Lithuania a subjeot nation. The correspondent, after declaring that the Polish armies an ignoring the armistice, quotes the case of a British military attache (Major Pargiter), who motored to headquarters, and was detained by the Poles until nightfall lest he should betray military movements. They told him they were repeating D'Annunzio's trick, crossing the Niemen without the Qovernmtnt's authirity as an independent army to occupy Vflna, and despite the League pf Nations. It is understood that the British urged the Lithuanian Government to remain in Vilna at all costs, 'leaving the issue to the League of Nations. Most of the Government departments, however, have already fled to Kovbo, and the French military mission h*§ assumed the governorship of Vilna. The Lithuanian army gave the Poles a {btal fight a few miles from Vilna, temporarily repulsing them and inflicting sever* casualties. The Lithuanian troops then retired. The residents of Vilna are terror-stjick-ga, and are fleeing westward.—Times. . LITHUANIAN RESISTANCE. PADERBWSKI RETIRING. London, Oct. 0!. According to advices from Lithuania:, ' "the Poles are approaching the outskirts of Vilna. The Polss are putting up a determined resistance. Advices from Grodna state that the Lithuanians are oppressing the Poles in Vilna and Ktfroo. Poles are fleeing and taking refuge in the forests. Padetewski is withdrawing from poH-u«s.—AW.-N.Z. Cable Asm.