RUSSIA.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16885, 13 July 1920, Page 7

RUSSIA.

THE POLISH DEBACLE,

(By Cable—Prers_ Association—Copyright.) (Rcuter's Tolcgrams.) WARSAW, July 11. A communique states that under strong pressure the Poles have fallen back from the Bcresina lines. The Bolsheviks crossed the Prinet, but were driven back with heavy losses. To the south of the Pripct the Poles have fallen back to the other side of Sarny. The Bolsheviks occupied Sarny, and the Poles have fallen back to Podolia, according to plan. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PARIS, July 11. Advices from Kovno state that the Bolsheviks have occupied Minsk. It is reported from Breslau that the Polish Army has evacuated BrestLitovsk. SPA, July 11. A high Ukrainian representative, referring to the Bolshevik operations towards "Warsaw, remarked to a newspaper correspondent: "The game is up. Poland is completely beaten." f'The Times.") WARSAW, July 11. The Poles, realising that they must be self-reliant, are splendidly rallying for home defence. Nearly oi)0,000 additional war workers have enlisted, of which 100,000 are on active service. The nolico volunteered en masse. The shoemakers are organising a regiment named "Kilinski," in memory of the famous cobbler, the hero of the struggle of 1754. ALLIES PROPOSE ARMISTICE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received July 12th, 5.5 p.m.) SPA, July 12. It is reported that as a result of M. Grabski's request for Allied intervention, pointing out that Poland's foreign policy is misunderstood, the Allies have sent a Nofco to Russia, proposing an immediate armistice with Poland, on condition that the Poles withdraw to their own frontiers, tho armistice to be followed by a Peace Conference, in which all the States bordering on Russia will participate. The Noto adds that if the Bolsheviks invade Poland, the Allies will give Poland every possible assistance. [Although the frontiers between Germany and Austria and Poland were fixed by the respective treaties between tho Allies and the two first-mentioned countries, there has been no definite allocation of boundaries between Poland and Russia.] ! NEW YORK, July 11. The Spa correspondent of the New York "Herald" states that Mr Lloyd George and M. Millerand flatly refused Poland's request to receive the munitions and supplies delivered to the Allies by Germany. The "Echo de Paris'' says that Mr Lloyd George, after consulting the representatives of France and Italy, is sending a Note to Moscow, making a resumption of commercial, and probably of political,, relations, dependent on an immediate armistice to Poland, stating that the Poles, thereafter, will fix the frontier in agreement with Moscow. In tho event of a refusal he will send help to Poland. Tho "Echo de Paris" contends that a pre-roquisite policy of bringing France into touch with Moscow must be Moscow's recognition of the Russian debt, and guarantees from Russia and Poland respecting the future. POLAND AND LITHUANIA. WASHINGTON, July 9. The Lithuanian representative hero announces that Poland has recognised the de facto Government in Lithunia. BRITAIN'S POLICY. (Received July 12th, 5.5 p.m.) SPA, July 12. It is officially denied that Great Britain is proposing a separate peace with Russia. (Received July I2th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 12. At a gathering in the Albert Hall to welcome the Labour delegates who have returned from Russia, a resolution was passed protesting against the "duplicity" of Great Britain's Russian policy, and pledging Labour's efforts to prevent "capitalistic filibustering in the future." LONDON, July 11. Tho "Observer's" Spa correspondent, states that the Russian Government's telegram accepting the British conditions were sent direct to Mr Lloyd George at Spa. This impressed the other Allied Ministers as a British triumph. It is believed that France and Italy will join Great Britain in recognising the Soviet Government and establishing immediate political and commercial relations.