The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-01-24
POLES WON'T
PLAY WITH-REDS
Balk at Proposed Conference
With Russian BoIshevists
on Princes Island.
REGARDED AS MISTAKE
Prince Lvoff Regards Decision
of Allied Council as Victory
for Bolsheviki.
REGARDED AS MISTAKE
(By John Edwin Nevin.)


Paris, Jan. 24.-Q. N. S.)-Poland
lies to enter into negotiations with
the Russian bolsheviks on Princes
Island, in the sea of Marmora on
February Is, according to Prof. Ver-
non kellogg, of Leland Stanford
University, in California, who has
Just returned Aere from Poland.
Prof. Kellogg, who will return to
Poland next week, said that he would
not accept a seat on the inter-allied
mission to Poland, but will retain his
membership on the commission sent
into Eastern Europe by Herbert
Hoover to investigate food condi-
tions.
Prince George Lvoff, who is in
Paris representing the Omsk. (anti-
bolshevik) government declared to-
day that 'bolshevism had won bril-
liant victory when the associated
powers consented to treat with their
representatives.
Regarded as Mistake.
Prince Lvoff regards the action OF
the supreme inter-allied war council
as a mistake, taking the attitude
that It gives official recognition t.
the bolshevik regime at Moscow
ut will mean the loss of a months
time in settling the Russian question
and will make it more difficult to
suppress the bolshevik movement"
declared Prince Lvoff. II suppose
that the conference hopes that the
meeting on Feb. 15, will not take
place through the failure Of quail
fed representatives to appear.
Clean Hands for Allies
"Such a. circumstance would leave
the allies with clean hands and ready
for energetic intervention in Russia.
sI believe that it would be pure
follv should Nicolai Lenine, the boil
sheyik premier, attempt to call a
truce for attendance at the Prince
Island conference, .,e
Prof. kellogg, speaking from the
viewpoint of the Polish people. TOOK
a similar view. In part, he said:
SIT will be very hard for the Poles
To understand why the allies are
sending a. mission into Poland TO see
what artillery, rifles, supplies ana
munitions are needed to enable them
TO fight the bolsheviks successfully
while the associated powers are IN
| viting the bolsheviks to cease muir
| dering and 60 to the gates OF Con-
| stantinople to talk over the SITUATION
| Poland Cockpit.
| "PoIand has been a cockpit since
1914. and now when the world strug-
gle il over, she must keep on ngnt-
ing the bolsheviks on her eastern
frontier. while the Ukrainians and
bolsheviks. led by German and Aus
trian officers are assailing the Poles
on their southern boundary. Lemoerg
ia now surrounded on all sides, ana
there is only a narrow gateway Tor
communication with Cracow ana
Vienna
"Not long ago I saw recruiting
stations, where Austrian officers
were gathering volunteers for the
JIkrainian army that is waging war
against Poland.
There is great need OF food in Po-
land. We have managed to get some
condensed milk into the country py
way of Switzerland, but most OF
the supplies must be shipped IN
through DantZig.
"rbere are heavy difficulties IN
shipment by way of Dantzig for the
channel is still mined and 1t Is oniy
twenty-two feet deep. We hope tna'
Marstsl Foch will compel the Ger
mans to remove the mines. Railway
service from Dantzig into Poland is
bad also. .,
"It requires about sixty Thousand
tons of food monthly to feed Po-
land. III we can get the food in, we
have been promised by Ignace PAD
erewski. the new Polish leader, tc
have enough rolling stock to as
tribute the supplies to warsaw.
"I,odz has become the danger
center of Poland because 1t is breed
ing spot for bolshevism. The place is
filled with skilled workers who are
all idle, owing to the fact that the
machinery in the factories was al
carried off by the Germans Wher
thew retreated. The Polish govern
ment is distributing pensions among
these workmen but owing TO the
higher prices many families are stray
ing and fighting breaks out contin-
ually.
"Lemberg is in a bad way. There
has not been a drop Of milk taKel
into that city since November.
"There is a scarcity Of medica
supplies, and I saw Polish soldiers
with their wounds bandaged witt
straw. The Polish women make won
derful fighters. have seen them IL
struggles alongside of the men
welding their rifles and bayonet'
like veterans. They are taking par
in battle against the bolsheviks anc
the Ukrainians.
Gen. PilsudsN is mobilizing tw'
classes which ought to give the 70
, lish army 100000 additional troops
But in reality most of them arr
without rifles or cartridges.
"The most serious menace to Po'
land seems to come from Germany
According to persistent reports, goot
German troops are being organized
for an offensive against the Poles
IT is likely that couple of good Ger
man divisions properly equipped
n-n,,id rr-acticallv wipe Poland OF