VILNA FOR THE POLES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10719, 13 October 1920, Page 5

VILNA FOR THE POLES

A POPULAR VICTORY DEAF EAR. TURNED TO FRENCH PROPOSAL. • ANNEXATION DEMANDED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received October 12, 5.5 p.m.) WARSAW, October 11. The Lithuanian division of the Polish army mutinied and occupied Vilna without orders. ' The Polish general proclaimed a new Government and announced that an early plebiscite would be taken to decide the future of the city. Publlshe-"" !n "Th« Timei. - (Received October 12, 5.5 p.m.) WARSAW, October 11. Zeiigowski and staff have resigned their commands in the Bliah army, etating that if they they had refused to load the troops they would have gone to Vilna leaderless. The Polish army commander describes this divisional action as a mutiny. The French mot Zeiigowski and proposed that Vilna should be a free town. Zeiigowski refused. The news was received with the greatest elation throughout Poland. opinion will not allow the Government to disavow the .occupation. Australian' and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received October 12, 5.5 p.m.) WARSAW, October 11. The Polish Council of Foreign Affairs has passed a resolution demanding the annexation of the Vilna district.

EMULATING D'ANNUNZIO

RECENT MASSACRE OF POLES. (Recoived October 12, 9.55 p.m.) LONDON, October 12. There is much discussion in diplomatic circles as regards Zeligowski's seizure of Vilna, as J the French and British Governments repeatedly advised Poland to exercise moderation, especially in connection with Vilna. Some make the excuse that the Polish leader is copying D'Annunzio's feat. I Zeligowski's men recently disinterred 1500 bodies of Poles who were butchered by the Bolsheviks during the recent occupation of Vilna, whom the Lithuanian Government refused to protect. REASON FOR COUP D'ETAT. Published in "Tho Time*." (Received October 13, 12.20 a.m.) WARSAW, October 12. An official message excuses General Zeligowski'6 coup d'etat at Vilna, etating that it was due to his men's exasperation over fresh acts of violenoe and reprisals by the Lithuanian Government against Polish families. v WRANGEL'S CAMPAIGN GENERAL TOWNSHEND TO SERVE. LONDON, October 11. The "Daily Graphic" states that General Sir Charles Townshend, the defender of Kut, is taking service Tinier General Wrangel. BRITISH-RUSSIAN TRADE WHAT THE CUR.ZON NOTE STIPULATED. LONDON, October 11. The text of Lord Curzon's Note to Tchitcherin confirms tho summary previously published. > It says the imprisonment of British subjects the sending of Russian troops to Persia, and propaganda in Asia, must end if trading negotiations are to be concluded. These will be renewed when the British prisoners cross the Russian frontiers.

REVOLT AGAINST "REDS" MOVEMENT GROWING APACE. Published in "The Times." (Received October 12, 5.5. 0.m.) WARSAW, October 11. Reports are current of the multiplicity of the risings against the "Reds" in different parts of Russia. A reliable source learns that the peasants in the Snratoff district have revolted on a large scale, and that Communist forces were sent to suppress another peasant rising reported at Smolensk.' Chinese troops stamped out a revolt at Kronstadt with much bloodshed . It is stated that social revolutionaries from Petrovisky, Spiridonova, Tartofs and Tschern.off gathered at Nijni-Novogorod, denounced tho Moscow Government, and issued a call for tho summoning of the Constituent Assembly.