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LITHUANIANS’ WARLIKE TALK EVOKES STERN WARNINGS POSSIBLE INTERVENTION BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. Paris, February 4. The Lithuanian delegates’ talk of a recourse to arms evoked stern warnings of a possible League of Nations’ intervention from Lord Balfour and M. Viviani at the public sitting of the Council of the League. The League approved a provisional demarcation o' a Ifne of neutral zones between Poland and Lithuania, recommended bv the League’s investigator, and ordered Poland and Lithuania to disarm and dissolve, tho bands of irregulars infesting the district. Tho Polish delegate accepted, but the Lithuanian declined, declaring that Lithuania insisted on the return <>l the Suwalki line, accepted by both countries before the Zeligowski c rJi> d’etat. The Lithuanian delegate added that- Lithuania would resist to the utmost the occupation of the territory now allotted to Poland. Reports have been received that the Lithuanian Government has refused to ••omply with the Ambassadors’ Conference "ultimatum. —Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 120, 6 February 1923, Page 7
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