The Raymer enterprise., 1920-08-19
France Acts independently Of
Great Britain In the Russo
Polish Complication.
PROMISES AID TO tvRANGEl
America to Use "AII Available Means"
to Preserve Polands Independence
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ereasIng-Express Workers
Get Wage Increase.
BY EDWARD W. p,cKAao.

~ eSVHUS W. FsSNVVS.
The United States will employ "all
available means" to safeguard the In.
dependence and territorial integrity Of
Poland. and will not recognize the
soviet government Of Russin.
The French government has recog-
nlzed the Wrangel government of
southern Russia and will give It mill.
tary aid against the bolshevlkl; and
the French representatives In London
have been Instructed to break of all
relations with Krassin and Kameneff.
the soviet trade commissioners there.
The British government, though
somewhat disiilnyed by the American
and French announcements and the
apparent break with France, still
hopes and believes peace can be ne.
gotiated between Russia and Poland.
The Russians, persisting In their re-
fusal to permit mediatio by any third
party. sent a delegation to 4Mlusk to
meet the Poles. and continued their
clrclIng movement designed to cap
ture Warsaw.
The Poles sent representatives to
Minsk to talk armIstice. and. having
withdrawn In good order from their
advanced positions, established two
lines of defense before Warsaw and
prepared for IN extensive counter
stroke.
In the lineup Of the powers, Italy
stands with Great Britain. and France
counts on the support Of the United
States. Germany maintains an osten-
sible neutrality while hoping for the
crushing Of Poland. believing the
Polish adventure was Instigated and
directed by France.
Such Is the summary OF conditions.
on the day of writing. In the biggest
Of the wars that are still going on.
President Wilson's statement Of
Americas position was made to Italy.
In It he suggested that the conflict
might he ended by the withdrawal Of
oil En" forces from Poland and
the vii wal OF NIL allied troops
from photographic Russia, together
with assurances by the allied and as
socinted powers that Russia will not
be dsmeinbered. He urged that any
dealings with the soviet regime be con-
fined within "the most narrow b0un.
darIes 10 which the disc" ssion OF an
armistice can be confined" and scored
the soviet government as that OF a
tyrannical and dishOn0rable minority
whose assurances and guarantees are
practically worthless. In asking that
the true boundaries Of Russia be re-.
spected. the note specified that those
boundaries should not include Fin
land. ethnic Poland or such territory
ms may by agreement form q part Of
the Armenian state. just what the
president meant by '.all available
means In promising aid to Polnnd
was not made clear, but II was as,
sumct. both by government officials
and by the representatives Of Poland
in Washington. that the phrase did
not include the dispatch Of troops.
Prince Lnbomirskl. the Polish minis.
fer. did not ask for armed assistance.
but said the need of his countrymen
WIS for food. clothing. arms and other
war munitions. These. he added. are
needed Immediately and imperntively.
A conference Of the British and
French prcmIers was held at Hythe
and returning to London. Lloyd
George told the house Of commons
that he still believed In peace. He
said Russia was entitled to strict
guarantees against repetition Of the
Polish attack hut was not entitled to
destroy Poland ms nation: II Russia
sote,: within those conditions there