THE POLISH WAR

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160737, 25 August 1920, Page 9

THE POLISH WAR

BOLSHETIKS IN BAD WAY 16 DIVISIONS LOSTJ. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received August 25, 10.45 a.m. PARIS, August 24. Advices received at Paris from Warsaw state that eight Bolshevik divisions have been annihilated, and eight others cut in halves. The Poles have captured forty thousand prisoners and two hundred guns. WHOLESALE BOLSHEVIK RETREAT. Received August 25, 10.45 a.m. LONDON, August 23. Dispatches from Warsaw report that the Bolsheviks are retreating along the entire battle-front. A Vienna report states that the Russian Northern Army is negotiating a surrender. POLISHRUSSIAN PEACE TERMS. ALLIED OBJECTIONS. Received August 25, 10.30 a.m. NEW YORK, August 24. Interviewed by the United# Press at Lucerne, Mr Lloyd George said that Britain and Italy had sent a peremptory message to the Bolsheviks requiring the withdrawal of objectionable clauses in the terms offered to the Poles. The 1 Note said that the Soviet’s demand for the arming of Polish workmen was intolerable. A message from Paris states that M. Millerand has forwarded a Note to London declaring that the Polo-Italian Note to the Bolsheviks was contrary to France’s principles. M. Millerand desires to meet Mr Lloyd George and Signor Giolitti. ANGLO-ITALIAN NOTE THE POSITION OUTLINED. \v ARNING TO THE SOVIET. Reuter.—August 25, 10.45 a.m. LONDON, August 24. A communique from Lucerne, emphasising the Polo-Italian complete agreement as regards the need for the re-es-tablishment of world-wide peace, and the steps the two Governments have taken to restore communication between Russia and the outside world, declares that Mr Lloyd George and Signor Giolitti have heard with profound regret that the Soviet Government, despite repeated official assurances to the contraij, has sought to impose on Poland conditions incompatible with national independence. The Government of Poland is based on the choice of the whole adult male population of the country, without distinction of class. This so-called civil army, to be drawn from one class only, which is referred to in the fourth condition of the Soviet terms, is only an indirect method of organising force to overthrow by violence this democratic constitution, and to substitute therefor the despotism of privileged men who may have absorbed the doctrines of Bolshevism. If the Soviet Government, notwithstanding the punishment which its aggression is encountering, continues the war inside Polish territory, no free Government can either acknowledge or deal with the Soviet oligarchy. The British and Italian Governments are alarmed at the indefinite prolongation of the present t-ato of conflict among the nations, as, until these conflicts cease, the betterment of agriculture and industry, and tire interchange of commodities between the different lands, whereon the economic life of nations depends, cannot come into full operation. The British and Italian Governments are, therefore, united in urging that every effort be made to bring to a conclusion the existing conditions of strife between the nations.