POLAND'S CHOICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 206, 28 August 1920, Page 6

POLAND'S CHOICE.

Assuming thut the reports of the , Polish victories are not exaggerated— , and the changes in the front support the communiques—the Poles have won a victory which, however flat it may fall on a jaded world, would', if won by the Allies during the war, have set tho flags Hying and the bells ringing in every Allied city. Indeed for rapid destruction of an army it has few* parallels in the war. Tanncnberg, fought not far from the extreme left of the Polish line, and Alien-by* sweep in Palestine arc cases that will occur to some of our renders. The Russians have begun a counter-offensive near Brest-Litovsk, . but if their losses have not been greatly overstated, this will be a holding attack rather than a movement to regain what they have lost. But the most interestj itig news to-day is that all the principal I Allies, sinking their differences of j opinion on the Russian question, have appealed to Poland to be moderate in the hour of victory. Poland's choice is between continuing a war in which she ; cannot hope to conquer Russia, and j making a peace in the near future that will give her a frontier in accordance with justice, if not with tho ambitions 'of the Polish "Imperialists." It may be said that the Russians might bide , their timo nnd attack again when they were strong enough to crush her. But in that case Poland would have tho strongest possible claim on tho Allies' I protection. In nuy enso tho alternative, in a loner war npainnt a vast country that cannot bo conquered, and, with Poland's resources, cannot even bo invnded to any groat depth.