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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2051, 10 September 1920, Page 10

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LONDON, September 0. A Polish communique reports:— Our cavalry held up the advance of the Lithuanians, and took 200 prisoners. The conference between the Miners’ Executive and the Minister of Labour, in n •which so much mas hoped, failed. Mr Robert Smillic informed Sir R. S. Horne that the executive was of opinion that there were no new proposals in his statement, which, in their judgment, would lead to a satisfactory settlement. The conference then terminated. A captured official organ of the Irish Volunteers provides an illumSiating insight ’ into the avowed purposes of the present Sinn Fein campaign or murders. I he paper declares:— “To-day the line of the enemy, the chief instrument of his executive power, has broken down and ceased to be effective. The Irish 'Constabulary have been driven from their outposts, and nearly 500 of their strongholds have been evacuated and destroyed. They have been forced to concentrate only In certain strong centres, where, m some part of the country, they are in the position of bcieigured garrisons. They are no longer effective for the purpose for which they were intended, namely, the ■ maintenance of ordinary civilian law and order, upon which every civilisation depends.” PARIS, September 9. A Warsaw report states that an agreement between Poland and Lithuania has been practically concluded. The Lithuanian Government is satisfied with the line occupied by its troops. The German Government has handed to the French Embassy m Berlin 100,000 francs, the indemnitv demanded by France for the violation of the French Consular in Breslau. The American woollen companies announce that the new price schedules are : 1 to 25 per cent, below the rates ruling a fear ago.