RUSSO-POLISH WAR.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17935, 31 July 1920, Page 9

RUSSO-POLISH WAR.

I RUSSIAN VIEW OF POSITION, j I { COPENHAGEN, July 29. Litvinoff, in an interview, stated that Poland had allowed herself to become ‘the tool of Krench capitalists, who tried to steal a, vast slice of Russian territory. Nevertheless, Russia had decided not to : dictate hard terms of peace and stands I for the principle of self-determination. ’ Further, when Russia obtained proof i that, the idea of overthrowing the Soviet | Government had been abandoned the I Soviet be glad to achieve peace with the whole world, but not an inch of Russian territory would be allowed to remain in Wrangel’s possession or other reactionaries. General Wrangel succeeded Genera) Denikin, who is now in England, in command of the South Russian Volunteer Army, when, after a series of disastrous reverses, it retained only a precarious foothold in the Crimea. Out of the rem- { nants of this army-, which at the begin- j ning of the year was menacing Moscow, | General Wrangel has built up a form id-: able if smaller fighting force with which 1 i ho has lately been prosecuting a success- ■ ful offensive against the Bolsheviks north of the Crimea. ' | ’ I POLES TAKEN BY SURPRISE. ‘ PARIS, July 29. i The. New York Herald’s correspondent states that the renewal of the often- | sive on a Idi’ger scale since the armistice ’ proposal surprised the Poles, who will probably be forced to abandon the | Pinsk marshes forming Poland’s principal defence. STUBBORN POLISH LEADER. i PARIS, July 29. j : The report of the French Polish misI sion does not conceal the fact that it is j very difficult to negotiate with Polsud- ■ ski. Le Matin says he is adverse to the Ali lied and foreign officers playing an efl fective role in the Polish army. A STIFF RESISTANCE. ’ WARSAW, July 29. A communique states that file Poles j are making a stiff resistance, and have ! repulsed numerous attacks in the Bar-' itza, region, but admit the evacuation of Brody and Lubianca.