POLAND

Timaru Herald, Issue 170300, 20 August 1920, Page 7

POLAND

NEWS FROM WARSAW. bolshevik Sack broken. By ISlectrio Telefrraph—Copyright. Auatralian arid N.Z. Cable Aisn" LONDON, August IS. The latest advices from AYor?aw state that immediate clanger l)as been, removed. The Poles finally held Radzymiii. compelling the enemy to retire six miles. The situation at the -principal danger- point, NavogeorgeVsk. is reassuring.

A Polish communique .is optimistic, and declares that tlie Bolshevik attack has been broken, and that -the enemy is retreating in confusion, the l'oieb loiiouuig up along mo en til'o il'Otlt.

it is reported, that General Vi'eygaud la uiiOiiieially directing the aelence. u arsaw remains calm. BOLS.HE V UK INTENTIONS. The London "Herald's'' Minsk cori impendent, states -tout the iioisnevJcs .Mil reeoguisd tiiti iiauehal existence or j oUmd, uua will not mtei'iere domestically nor add. to the publisaed cteauinUs.

ANOTHER VERSION. Advices from Berlin state that the divisional commander ot tne? Russian troops occupying fcioidau imormed tne authorities mat he had received iviveiesa orders iroin iUoscow not. to. interfere wiuu internal affairs. He also ueciared that Russia had 110 idea of introducing the Soviet system if it .we not in accord. with the wishes of the majority 01 the population The commander added that the 1914 frontier would be rescored, and Roland would cease to exist. Warsaw would uo occupied by tne Russians for lira years, and thereafter Roland would again be incorporated in Russia. The itussians would occupy the Dantzig corridor, but not tli9 town of Dantzig, unless the latter committed a noiiiieutral act.

Another Russian officer declared the intention to advance into the corridor and occupy all German territory ceded to Poland under the Versailles Treaty, ;uid then evacuate the corridor, recognising the I9ii German frontier. REDS WELCOMED IN SOLDAI 7 . BERLIN, August 17. Soldan was 'Seiiagged when the Bolsheviks entered and the bands p laved The Bolsheviks prohibited flags bearing a portrait of the ex-Kaiser. BOLSHEVIST PROPAGANDA. Til® "Times." DANTZIG. August 17. The newspaper "Nafh'rieliten's" war correspondent., giving an inside idea of the Red army, says that one of the busiest headquarters . departments is the political one, which' issues a stream of leaflets, intended to influence Polish and German workers, and urging the German _ Communists to attack the Bourgeoisie.. The department also issues newspapers circulated among the a 1 my, filled with horrible stories of alleged Polish atrocities and imaginary details of unemployment, and revolutions in the rest of the world. Everything French is described as capitalistic, everything English, as hypocritical.

MINSK CONFERENCE OPENED. LONDON, August IS. The Minsk Conference has onened. The Bolsheviks have pefmitted Polish newspaper correspondents to proceed to Minsk.