‘WILL FIGHT FOR LIBERTY’
LITHUANIA DEFIES POLAND INDEPENDENCE MUCH PRIZED “BLOODSHED NOT WANTED” By Telegraph—Press Assn.—CopyTight. Received June 20, 10 p.m. . Times. London, June 20. "It will perhaps be your fate to fight further for Lithuanian independence,” tho Premier, M. Valdemaras, to-day told a conference of Lithuanian riflemen, whom he warned to be on their guard against tho Powers’ attempts to force Lithuania to cede Memel to Poland. The Minister of War, M. Doukontas, declared the Powers wanted to force Lithuania to come under Polish influence. "The Powers must know Lithuania does not want war and bloodshed,” he said, “but if it is necessary to defend her independence she is ready, and will not cease fighting until she achieves complete victory or the whole Lithuanian people are slain on the battlefield.” The Soviet Press alleges far-reaching plans on the part of Poland to annex Lithuania.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1928, Page 9
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