POLAND

Timaru Herald, Issue 170297, 16 August 1920, Page 7

POLAND

GENERALS DIFFER. DEFENCE OF WARSAW. PARIS, August. 13. General Weygand, who is now'at "Warsaw, agreed to take command ot : the Polisli forces, provided that the Poles did not insist on Actually defending the capital. General Piludski declaied that Warsaw would be def ended t<> the east. General Weygand thereupon declined to take command. Polish commanders explain, that they are retreating at many points owing to ]a ek of ambulances and desire to save the wounded who otherwise would fas tortured., as photographs captured fronx Bolsheviks prove." TREACHERY AT HOME. WARSAW, Auaust 14.

WARSAW, August 14. A hundred persons were 'arrested in connection with a plot to blow vp the Polish headquarters. THE MINSK CONFERENCE. The discussion at Minsk will be open to the Press. Polish plenopotentia-ies report that it has been arranged that tho armistice preliminaries shall commence at Minsk on the 1 -Ith.

WARSAW SURROUNDED

SAYS BOLSHEVIK' REPORT.

BERLIN, August To.

Bolsheviks report that Warsaw is surrounded, and that Dumowski, ieader of the Polish National Democrats, is heading a revolutionary movement, to overthrow the Polish Government.

SOME PEACE TERMS. 31. Tcliifecherin. states that Russia intends to include in the peace terms a provision for arming Polish Soviet militias' of trade unionisms as a coun-ter-poiso to the imperialist landlords and a protection to Russia against attack. Russia will insist oil Poland granting free land to the families of Polish citizens killed or* wounded in the Avar.

The S-oviet lias absolutely a free band in the Orient, and till a general agreement is reached with Britain limitations can be determihed only by treaty. "I can give assurances that such limitations will be rigiily observed." M. Tchitcherin further states that

the Soviet has not the least intention of annihilating Poland, llussia desires only a guarantee against : Polish armies' new attacks. "We demand the reduction of. the Polish army to fifty thousand. Russia stands ready to withdraw her army from Poland and the Polish frontier, where only two hundred thousand will' be left.

GERMANY NEUTRAL

Received 11.20 p.m., August 15. BERLIN, August 14.

The Government, replying to a Soviet wireless message, denies allegations that Polish troops are concentrating in h. plebiscite area, and adds: "Germany intends to maintain neutrality, and already liis interned some Polish troops which entered German territory."

POLES STILT/ HOPEFUL OF VICAORY. VIENNA, August 14. According to advices from Warsa.w, the Poles are not likely to accept disarmament, which they regard as an ignominious capitulation. The Poles are recruiting +o the utmost for a "battle near Warsaw, which they hope may prove another Marne.