PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15317, 13 September 1920, Page 3

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

DELEGATES. AT RIGA,

MOSCOW, Sept, 10. The Russian peace delegates have gone to Riga, the Soviet having received the necessary assurances of their safety. The Polish delegates are already there. Pourparlers will 'begin forthwith.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.. The State Department has received a Note from Poland charging Lithuania and Russia with acting m collusion over the boundary disputes against Poland.— A. and N.Z.C.A; - . „'

RED ARMY RE-GROUPING, - WARSAW, Sept. 12. Ten fresh Bolshevist divisions are reported .m. the Volhynia region. The Red army, further north is re-grouping. — A. and N.Z^.A. . > . " , (Received Sept. 13, 8,60 a.m. • ' . , ' WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. . It is intimated that the United States will be .asked to mediate m the Polish question.-^, and N.Z.O.A.

NO POLISH WAR IF U.S. HAD JOINED

MILWAUKEE, August 13.— Endorsenjent' of the League of Nations by the United States wolud have saved Poland, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared , here. The moral effect of American membership m tS% League would have halted the Russian armies without a single American soldier crossing the seas; he said.

"History will, lay a great share or toe responsibility for the plight of Poland upon those little narrow men m the United States Senate, those little narrow nien who tpday conirol the machinery of the Republican party," lie said. "But ..for their desire to satisfy per* sonal spite, the Bolsheviks would not be knocKing at the gates of Warsaw..

"The heart of America goes out to the Polish nation. Our hands are , tied, because of the obstructionist methods of Senator ; Harding "s group of senatorsTho United states is stfll technically at war. It is not a member of the League of Nations. AH it can cjo is offer advice and sympathy,"