RUSSIA AND THE POLES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15321, 17 September 1920, Page 3

RUSSIA AND THE POLES.

BOLSHEVIK DEMANDS TO BLv' ADHERED TO. EJec. Tol. Copyright— United Pi ess Assn.) ( LONDON, Sept, 15. A Moscow wireless reports that the Bolshevik leaders are appealing to Gen- i :ral Wrangel's forces to lay down, their i arms m order to revive toiling Russia, i urging them m the name of everything * that is honest m the Russian people to < refuse to play the criminal role of the ' Polish landlords and French usurpers. , A full amnesty is offered all who ally ; Lhemselves' with the Soviet power. < -.-••;•■■;• •' . LONDON, .Sept. 16. ■<■ , The Daily Chronicle's Riga correspondent inter*v'ie\\ r ed Joffe, president of* the Bolshevik peace delegation. ' He' said , Russia intends to adhere to ■„ her original demand for tlie reduction of the Polish I army,, which must not be large enough I to be an instrument of aggression. Soviet ' % Russia i would like to disarm herself, but' is threatened . with attack on several sides. If Poland demands the 1772 frontiers there will be trouble, other- 1 wise there should be no difficulty regard- ' ing the frontiers. All peace conferences must be open to the press. — A. . and ; N.Z.CA. '• V ' ■'. V POLAND AND LITHUANIA. LONDON, Sept, 15. I Peace negotiations between Poland and Lithuania have begun at lvalvaria. — A. i and N.Z.CA. • v .