BOLSHEVIKS AND POLAND.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16038, 31 January 1920, Page 11

BOLSHEVIKS AND POLAND.

A WARNING NOTE.

FIGHT OR SURRENDER.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received January 31, 2.15 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 29.

A Bolshevik wireless announces that the Soviet Government has addressed a Note to Poland, asking the latter to decide whether she desires war. The Note asserts that the extreme Entente elements, namely, Churchill’s and Clemenceau’s partisans, are endeavouring to incite Poland to an unjust, senseless, and crimnial war against the Soviet, which stands for the right of national self-determination and the recognised independence of the Polish Republic from the first day of its existence.

The Council of People’s Commissaries has decided that there is no economic, territorial, or other question which cannot be peacefully negotiated, and hopes to see a friendly settlement of all questions in dispute between Poland and Russia.

KOtTCHAK'S SUEBENDEB.

AN EXPLANATION DEMANDED. Received January 31, 2.15 p.m. PARIS, Jan. 30. M. Millerand has telegraphed to General Janin, commanding the Allies in Siberia, asking for an explanation of his alleged order authorising the surrender of Koltchak to the Bolsheviks, and ordering Janin to take immediate steps to secure Koltchak’s release. TUDENITCH ARRESTED. GETTING AWAY WITH THE GOLD., Received January 31, 2.30 p.m. STOCKHOLM, Jan. 28. At the instance of the Procurator of the North-West Russian Army, the Esthonian authorities arrested General Yudenitch on the eve of his departure abroad. It is alleged that Yudenitch was taking with him the North-West Army’s treasury.