the polish war.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16932, 6 September 1920, Page 7

the polish war.

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS TO BE RESUMED.

Cable-Press Association— Copyright.) (Australian and >".Z. Cabls Aaocirfion.) WARSAW, Septenibsr 3. Tho Soviet has accepted Riga as the reauo for renewing the peace negotiations The head of tho Soviet pcace delation will bo Citizen Jeffe. Tho Soviet demanded certain guarantees respecting the immunity of the Russian and Ukrainian delegation, and the riaht cf unrestricted communication!:, whictt the Polish Foreign Minister Vrh.cc Saphicha, lias taken bteps to secure. It is understood that the peace negotiations will be resumed in the course of tho next week. SOVIET CONCILIATORY. /Received Sentember sth, 5.5 p.m.) WARSAW, September 4. Tho Russian Soviet has agreed to recommence -peace negotiations at Riga. It is understood tho Bolsheviks are now anxious for an immediate armistice with Poland, and will not propose extreme terms, owing to the recent victories of tho Poles. FRICTION WITH LITHUANIA. LONDON, September 3. A Polish communique states that General Budenni, after advancing beyond Zamoso. was attacked in the rear by General Tlaller's army group. Finding himself surrounded ho began to retreat. He undertook soveral cavalry charges, despite enormous losses, in the endeavour to force a passage. In tho coursc of the fighting the Red army was destroyed, with the exception ot a few detachments. An neuto position has arisen between Poland and Lithuania, owing to, Polish troops, on the pretext of cleaning up trie ivmuants of the Bolshevik army, advancing into undeniably Lithuanian terrilcrv. A telegram from Kovno tpeaks of war being inevitable it the advance continues. Clashes between Polish and Lithuanian troops, m' which both sides stiffcred heavily, stimulated afresh the .long standing ill-feeling hotween the two countries. The now independent Lithuania formed a part ot tho old Polish kingdom, and Poland onlv reluctantly and cogimed Lithuanian independence, lho towns of Grodno and Vilna have ong been, a bone of contention. Poland i,ever renounced her claim to \ llna, which the Conference definitely assigned to Lithuania. j A tele cram from Pobsh sources, dated Soptembor Ist. says thnt m consequence of the Soviet's mobilisation orders. Ukrainian peasants revolted, and are forming guerilla detachments, which aro machine against the headquarters of the Bolsheviks. . It is stated that the provinces or > Karkoff, Khersan, Kieff, and Kkaterinoslav are in the midst of a civil war. whirh is spreading to v olhynia ana Podlia. A similar movement has also broken out in the neighbourhood of Odessa. . „ . » (Received S*r»temW oth, 11.0 p.m.) ' NE W YORK. Seotemher 3. The Lithuanian Mission has trarismittetl n Note from Lithuania to the United States protesting acrainst, Poland s impending advance into Lithuania, and threatening to defend the Lithuanian ivitindaries to the bitter end against the Poles. AMERICA MOVING. (Received September sth, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 3. Mr Wilson conferred for an hour with Mr Colby and Ambassador Davis regarding the Polish situation. It is expected that another Note will bo sent to Poland. ~ . 'Received Soptonibor 6tn, 12.00 a.ttw WASHINGTON, September 4. : It is learned -that the State Depart.mont's new Note to Poland "will that guarantees be given immediately that the Polish armies, will not pursue any unnecessary invasion of Russian territory. PLIGHT OP PRISONERS. (United Service.) (Received September 6th, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, September 3. Tho correspondent of the "Daily Express" in East Prussia gives a terrible picture of the internment of the Bolsheviks. Fifty thousand ore confined in the space of a square mile, with little shelter. Tho rations are insufficient, forcing tho killing and eating of horses, which a'ra cooked by fires made from waggons and oth6r war material. Thousands who are supposed to be interned are roaming the countryside menacing tho peasantry, while the cities are filled with German speculators eager to buy at bargain prices thousands of ownerless horses, which are believed to have been stolen from Polish farmers.