NEW D'ANNUNZIOS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10718, 12 October 1920, Page 6

NEW D'ANNUNZIOS

POLISH ENTRY INTO VILNA. PLIGHT OF LITHUANIANS. Published in "Tha TltnM." LONDON, October 10. ' A * "Times" correspondent at Kovno reports that serious apprehension has been caused by the news that the Poles-have entered Vilna. Notwithstanding the official assurances, the Suwalki Conference, and the intervention of the League of Nations, the Poles- are making Lithuania a subject nation; • The correspondent states that after declaring that the Polish armies were i°noring the armistice, the British Military Attache, Major Pargiter, motored to.headquarters, and the Poles detained . him ..until nightfall, lest he should betrav their military movements. They told him they -were repeating D'Annunzio's trick and were crossing the Niemen without the Government's authority, as an independent army to occupy Vilna, in spito of the League of Nations .It is understood that the British have urged the Lithuanian Government "to remain at Vilna at all costs, leaving the issue to the League of Nations. Most of the Government departments,- however, had already-'fled The French Military.>Misfion has assumed the governorship of Vilna. The Lithuanian army gave tho" Poles a final fight a few miles from Vilna, temporarily repulsing them and inflicting severe casualties. The Lithuanian troops then retired. The residents ..of ..Vilna are terrorstricken and are fleeing westward. WARSAW, October 9. Advices from Grodno state that the Lithuanians are oppressing the Poles _ inlVilna and Kovno, and the Poles "are fleeing and taking refuge in the fore6t3.PEACE PARLEY SQUABBLE OVER TERMS. * "''" '" Published In 'Th» Ttroea" " " * (Received October 12, 1.25 a.m.) RIGA, October 10. The peace delegates are worn, gaunteyed, and sleepless as the result of a " prolonged squabble over terms. Th'o ',, Poles claim a share of the gold reserve ./in Petrograd as well as the restoration 'I of gold taken from Warsaw banks at ~ the time of the retreat in 1915. ! PADEREWSKI ABANDONING - --."-.. ..... . . POLITICS. LONDON, October 9. It is reported from Warsaw that ■ M. Paderewski, Premier of Poland, is abandoning the political life.