POLICY OF FRANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 195, 16 August 1920, Page 5

POLICY OF FRANCE.

AN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION. NO MILITARY ASSISTANCE < WTTHOUT CONSULTING BRITAIN. ( IBy Cable.—l'ress Association.— Copyright) PARIS, August 13. it is officially explained that recognition of General Wrangel does not mean f rendering military assistance, which c would not be given without ascertaining j ( British views. This hs interpreted in j>' some quarters as a revision of French < policy. M. Millcrand's Note to President Wil- < son emphatically endorses his Russian I policy.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) POLES BECOMING BITTER. ' CALLING HARD NAMES. ] WARSAW, August 1-3. I The Poles would not believe the first ] report of Mr. Lloyd George's speech on ' ( the 10th inst. owing to its wide divcrg- i tnce from his previous utterances. Later \ confirmatory summaries produced a most depressing effect. One commentator nicknames the British Premier "George Lord Chameleon." Others say be shifts his position with the levity of a grasshoppej-. Great Britain, it is said, is no longer the ally of Poland, but lias become the friend of the Bolshevists. Polish commanders explain that they are retreating at many points owing to lack of ambulances and a desire to save the wounded, who otherwise would be tortured, as photographs captured from Die Bolsheviks prove. — I Renter.) GERMAN NEUTRALITY. LONDON, August 1.->. The existence of a Riisso-Gcnuun alliance is Kcmi-oflicially denied in Berlin. Kopp, the Soviet representative, declares! that the leport was circulated for the purpose of prejudicing his efforts to secure an iconoinic rapprochement be- | tween Russia and Germany. j The German Government, replying t-' I a wireless message from the Soviet Government, denies allegations that Polish troops are concentrating in the plebi- . scite area, antl adds that Germany in-i lends to m.iutniii neutrality. Already! some Polish troops who entered German territory have been interned. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) j Italian newspapers, bitterly comment on France's supo-ori of General Wrangel. • The "Giornale Epoca" says the Entente ; has broken up. France has accomplii-hcd what Germany failed to do.—("Times.") COPENHAGEN. August to. The 'National Tidendc" states thai Trotsky, in a speech at Vilna, said thai I the solemn reception of Kiimenelf and i Krassin as representatives of the Russian Government in London, meant that the Western Powers recognised the Soviet Government. He added that Bolshevism had captured the whole of Europe. Zinoviefl'. representative of the Soviet Government, addressing the Congress of the Third Internationale at Moscow, declared that it had not any use for Socialist pacifists in its membership.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) AMERICA'S HANDS TIED. FAILURE TO JOIN LEAGUE. WASHING/TON. August LL It is understood that the I'nited States Government is awaiting expectantly the French Note, expressing satis- ' faction at the unanimity of French and ' American policy toward Russia. It is _ said that nothing could please the Ad | ministration more than to have France's 1 approval of the Cnited States' attitude toward Russia. It is pointed out that France always insisted that the United States should be consulted in tbe forma--1 tion of any general Allied programme f concerning Russia. Officials here con- '' sider that France's recognition of Gen- ' era! Wrangel, not as a separate entity. ' but as the Russian Nationalist authority ' is designed to unite all Russia. Mr. David Francis, former United States Ambassador to Russia, predicts that the Soviet Government will go to pieces within six months. He says tha! the effect of the United States Note will be detrimental to Bolshevik rule.

Mr. F. D. Roosevelt, Democratic nominee for the Vice-Presidency, in the course of a speech at Milwaukee, said that if the United States had been a member of the League of Nations, Poland would not be ligajting Bolshevism now. Tf the United S'.f.ees had been able to throw her moral into the scale the Bolshevik armies would not be where they are now. The heart of the United States went out to Poland, but her hands were tied.

The Fawner Labour candidate for the Presidency, Mr. Farley P. Christensen, has cabled to Mr. W. 0. Adamson. chairman of the British Labour part}-, congratulating the British workers on their determination to resist military intervention against Russia.— (A. and N.Z.)