RUSSIA AND POLAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18543, 2 May 1922, Page 5

RUSSIA AND POLAND

DISTURBED FRONTIER. GRAVE FEARS OF WAR. Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright, BERLIN, April 29. It is reported that a large number of Communist soldiers have arrived in Smolensk and Minsk for the Red army. General Trotsky 'is expected to make an early visit to the Russo-Polish frontier, where it is believed something like a state of war exists. Several troop trains and munition transports have arrived. Many Polish subjects have been arrested on charges of espionage. It is universally feared that war between Russia and Poland may prove inevitable. M. Lenin is expected to make a war statement to the All-Russian Executive Committee on May 5. —Times. DISQUIETING REPORT SOVIET AGREEMENT WITH GERMANY. WARSAW, April 30. A report is current that a GermanBolshevist military agreement was signed in Berlin on March 4. It provides for the delivery by Germany to Russia of munitions, equipment, poison gas, instructors, aeroplanes, and wireless plarit. The Soviet agrees to give Germany warships and to maintain troons opposite the Polish frontiers. Poland is apprehensive that if Russia fails in its demands at Genoa it will- attack Poland as an indirect hit at France; consequently as a precautionary measure Poland is calling up the 1901 class, and is retaining in the ranks some of the 1899 class due for demobilisation.—Time#.