THE POLISH WAR

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 226, 18 June 1920, Page 7

THE POLISH WAR

" ASSISTING SOVIETISM " STATEMENT BY KRASSIN ißy Telegraph-Presa Association-Copyright Paris, June 16. M. Krassln, in aai interview, expressed gratitude at the fact that the Entente was assisting Sovietism by allowing Poland to wage a useless war. He declared that even if the Bolsheviks defeated Poland they would not destroy her. Russia could continue at war for years, but that would only involve further privations to foreigners. It, was wrong to think they wanted to pursue their propaganda abroad. Time had proved .that the Soviet regime did not need a world revolution. It can exist midst a. world organised on a .capital basis. M. Krassin added.: "Wo accept this state of things, and hold our foreign engagements sacred."—"The Times."

; WRANGEL'S ADVANCE MUCH TERRITORY OCCUPIED. Constantinople, June IG. General Wrangel continues his buciessful advance, and has occupied much territory and captured much war material and grain.—Router.

SENTENCES ON KOLCHAK'S MINISTERS EXECUTIONS POSTPONED. „ London, June. Id. Renter's correspondent at Vladivostok ■ reports that the trial of the former ICol- ■ chak Ministers has ended. Four were sentenced to death, and sixteen received sentences ranging from five to ten years' hard labour. All have appealed to Lenin and Trotsky, and meanwhile the sentences of execution have 'been postponed.—Renter. Japanese!" Siberia MASSACRE AT NIKOLA IE VSK DISCUSSED AT TOIfIO. Toklo. Juns IG. A greit mass meeting discnssScT tho massacre of Japanese at. Nikolaievslc, and demanded partial mobilisation and . the temporary cancellation of the homeward movement of Japanese troops from v 'Siberia. • The-meeting-also condemned Japanese support of the Vladivostok ' Provisional Government, because it is i thoroughly Bolshevik.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo ■ 'Assn.