POLES STILL ADVANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 205, 27 August 1920, Page 5

POLES STILL ADVANCE.

CAPTURE OF GRODNO. SHORTAGE OF AMMUNITION. 26.000 REDS IN GERMANY. (By 1.1 >>.-l';-"-< A 'LltiiUl. I'npjTigtlt.i L"N!'i>\. Aujnist 215. The Viil-'r" have entered Grodn >, on the Ni-men River. Irin mile, n.irth-east of Warsaw. A Berlin -emi-i iti.-ial mf-.-asjc >tates that 'he I'uli-ih amnios are facing a seri011s nmmiir.iiiiiu -imrtHai , . The Bolshevik* arc im ii.iring a neu line on the Niemen River. T«enty-i\ rhnu-and Kuvian* have retreuted into Ka-t Prussia. A whole brigade and -talF iro-sed the frontier i neer TolmnnUburg.—(A. and N.Z.i A \->re ha- h.-en »ent to General Tower nt Danzig, in the name of the Conference of Ambassador*, asking him tn ensure the transit of war material through Danzig, in conformity with Poland's rights under the Treaty 'f Versailles. It the dockers at the port will not ensure the landing of rargoes for Poland the Commissioner will have to effect unloading by nil available mean- and protect the freedom of work Tt nirnear* that the neutrality derision lias caused a split in the Belgian Cabinet. The Foreign Minister. M. Hymans. resigned. supporting the view that the Soviet terms infringed the independence of Poland, and urginsr dispatch of munitions. M. Minister of National Defence, also resigned.—l Renter.l WRANGEL IN THE GRANAKY. SOVIET AXAEAIED. LONDON. August 2fi. General VVrangel'a advance into the interior of the Kuban territory, which is the great corn-growing region of Russia, is filing the Soviet Government with alarm. Trotzky has issued an appeal by wireless to trades unions to concentrate all workmen on General Wrangel's front, and to smash him before it is too late. General Wrangel's latest communique reports the capture of an entire regiment. A great rising hag occurred against the Bolsheviks in the Ekaterinoslav district. — (Reuter.) COUNCIL OF ACTION'S POLICY. LONDON, August 26. Tile Labour Council of Action, replying to the Note of Mr. Lloyd George and Signor Giolitti, declared that they must read it as a. move in the direction of a more reactionary policy, in which the Russian Soviet Government's proposal to establish a civic militia in Poland is to be used as a pretext. Furthermore, the Poles' refusal of the Russian terms immediately brings Mr. Lloyd George's booa. tides to tile test, whether he would apply tn Poland the same peremptory method he has applied to the Russians ■when thf-v seemed to transgress beyond a I reasonable policy. Finally, the council ; is convinced that it is necessary immedi- i ately to open peace negotiations between J Britain nnd Russia, to <-f>n*a >■" tn Poland, and to withdraw all British warships from Russian v/uinri. — i,™n .. ■ "JTRANGEL'S DECREE. , (Received 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 26. In view of the increase in his territory, and with the assent of the Cossacks. General U'rangel has issued a decree nominating himself Commander-in-chief of the Russian army, and describing his Government as the South Russian Government. — (Reuter.l AN AMERICAN NOTE. AND POLISH AGGRESSION. (Tleceivtxl 2 p.m.) WASHINGTON. August 20. Mr. Bainbridge Colby. Secretary of State, announces that his Department has n-idressed anotior Note to Poland, hoping that the Pol'eh Government would issue a declaration stating its intention to abstain from territorial aggression against Russia, and also stating its intention to remain within the boundaries indicated by the Peace Conference.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)