The Poles' Triumph

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXI, Issue 71, 12 October 1920, Page 6

The Poles' Triumph

First Edition

The following appeared in our Second Edition of yesterday:— i 'i*« 1 r vMi-n —^

j * LEAGUE OP NATIONS FLOUTEDt 1 ' ’ ' - • ' ' M v TERRITORIAL AGGRANDISEMENT : . • .. - t f r *■■■- ■ Press 'Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z.; Cable Association. (Beoeived 12,35 p.m.) London, October 10. Tho times’ correspondent at Kovno ‘ reports. that, -erioua apppreheusion has Been- caused by the news that the a Poles will enter; Yilna, this despite ihj Hit walk! Conference and the intervention of the League of Nations. The Pcjcs are making Lithuania a subject nr.tjon. 18. correspondent* after declaring tliat- (ho Polish armies are ignoring

the; armistice,’, quotes the case of .the British . Military Attach©,. Major Pnrgctcr, who .motored’ to headquar- . Kvrs,. ived waa!.dftaiced by. tb© Poles u-Uii nightfall fWst he betray their military movement*. They, told him th y were repeating D’Annunzio’s triple, crossing the Niemen without the Cover.- meat’s authority as an iadepond t H -army .to,occupy. Yilna, ■ and (Pscite, the League of Nation*. Lb is understood the British urged th© Lith- : uaiuan Government to remain in Yilna at;all costs,' [leaving.thoisau© to the of .Nations; Most of tHi© Go- 1 vefuma :t - departments, however, had al-Toa'y fled jjo-- Kovno. A . French Mi’ltory--Mission, -assumed the gover-nor-shipt of Yijna. ~ The Lithuanian Army gav e the Poles the ti »1- fight a few miles from Yilna, temperarily repulsing them, and inflicting st zero casualties. The Lithuania i uoops-then retired.- Th© residents of Yiba. nro terror-stricken, fleeing (vv at; ard. Mr Garvin, writes ini the Observer; ■r The Pels’ triumph‘is dazzling, hut it is a most sinister omen that they have doubled the , territory awarded them at the Vcrsai les Conference. They now " r’do non-Polish- races hundred mil r, to the east. Their population is large ■ than that of Spain,'and their fightliig.foreeg tsxceed, Germany’s. Poland vc'ms.-to-. , have a fair chance cf rr.nki ig as a great nation, yet nothing is ;i o~© certain than-that she will n ; .retain her present space on the ;• ai~,g„ They have the bottom’ out S tho League, of Nations. Th© rer v vy of Russia apd. Germany ig only .i.(,r stion of time, and, it is certain, ,lhe;-' -two, will mak© .common caqse ag l st Polandj Hug© revisions Of th© • ~;c s'- ru-. map must come, Will they bi i ■ : another war, or can diplomacy • j.pn.vail? : .' v ,;■■■ , -x, -V v:i • ;