RUSSO-POLISH WAR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20044, 6 September 1920, Page 4

RUSSO-POLISH WAR.

BOLSHEVIKS ANXIOUS FOR PEACE, By ToUgtaph—Prws Association—Copyright. Auttrilian and N.Z, Cable AMvuuwS.' WARSAW, September 4. , Im Russian Soviet hap agreed to recommence peace negotiation; nt Riga. It is understood that the Bolsheviks are now anxious for an immediate armistice with Poland, and will not propose extreme terms, owing to the recent victories of the Poles. POLAND AND LITHUANIA. NEW YORK, September 3. The Lithuanian Mission has transmitted a Note from Lithuania to the United States protesting against Poland’s impending advance into Lithuania, and threatening to defend Lithuanian boundaries to the bitter end. President tvtlson c6nsider> ING SITUATION. WASHINGTON, September 3. President Wilson conferred for an hour with Mr Colby, Secretary of State, and Ambassador Davis regarding the Polish situation.. It is expected that another Note will be sent to Poland. . WASHINGTON, September 4. It is learned that the State Department's new Note to Poland will urge that guarantees be given immediately that the Polish armies will not pursue any unnecessary invasion of Russian terrifcbry. INTERNED BOLSHEVIKS. LONDON. September 3. The " Daily Express ” correspondent in East Prussia gives a terrible picturO of the internment of 50,000 Bolsheviks in a spach of a square mile. There is little shelter from the rain, slough and mud, and rations are insufficient, forcing the killing and eating of horses, which are cooked by fires made from waggons and other war material. Thousands supposedly interned are roaming; the countryside, menacing the peasantry, while the cities are filled with German speculators eager to buy at bargain prices thousands of ownerless horses, believed to have been stolen from Polish farmers.