Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-09-10
RUSSIANS AGREE
TO TRUCE PLANS
Promise to Send Delegates to
the Riga Meeting.
DELEGATION HEAD RESIGNS
N. Danishevsky Quits When Moscow
Government Consents to Garry on
Further Negotiations With Po-
land-Balfour Sends Reply.

Warsaw, Sept. I'M. Danishevsky
has resigned as head of the Russian
delegation to negotiate an armistice
program and a peace treaty with 70
land and has been replaced by Adolpn
AbramowOicz Joffre. former soviet
ambassador to Germany, and chair
man of the Russian peace delegate
at Brest-Litovsk, according to- Moscow
advices received here.
M. Danishevsky resigned because
the soviet government agreed to carry
on further negotiations with Poland
at Riga. The personnel of the new
soviet delegation is not at present
known, but will be communicated to
Polish government officials later.
Reds Demand Guarantees.
Prince Sapieha, Polish foreign min
from George Tchitcherin, bolshevik
minister of foreign affairs, stating
that the essential condition as to the
Riga conference was a guarantee of
the immunity of the Rushian and
Ukrainian delegates, the right to free
and uninterrupted communication in
code by telegraph and wireless and by
courier carrying diplomatic sealed
pouches.
Upon receiving such guarantee, NJ.
Tchitcherin said, the soviet delega-
ton will leave for Riga with full
power 10 agree to an armistice pre-
liminary to peace and to negotiate a
final peace treaty.
Prince Sapieha has wired the Polish
minister in Riga to obtain the de-
manded guarantee from the Letvian
government and to communicate the
result direct to the bolsheviki minis
ter in that city.
Rafour Replies to Reds.
London. Sept. Arthur ]. Balfour.
lord president of the council, has re-
piled to the dispatch of M. Tchitcher-
in Russian bolshevik minister, sent
on August %.
Mr.. BaIfour expresses qualification
that the soviet government renOunces
its demands for a workers militia. but
declares that M. Tchitcherin is mis-
taken in supposing that the British
government recognized that reduc-
tion of the Polish army to 10000 men
would be Just peace terms.
What the British government said,
Mr.. Balfour declared, was that Great
Britain would not consider it sufi-
cient ground for active intervention.
Mr.. Balfour characterizes Tchit-
cherin's representations concerning
the civic militia as being a concession
to Poland as evidently meant as
jest. and so far neither requires nor
deserves a reply" He considers. how
ever. that it is a jest requiring ex-
PLANTATION from the soviet government.
Polish Notes Made Public.
Washington, Sept. 4.-Poland has
declined to jeopardize her military OPP
erations against the bolsheviki by
binding herself to regard the "artif-
cial boundaries" laid down at the
peace conference.
Replying to Secretary Colby's sug-
gestion that Poland remain within the
lines specified by the peace confer
ence the Polish government states it's
position as follows:
notwithstanding the sympathetic
attitude of our allies, the Polish ma
ton had to face the danger alone,
and political events proved that it
must in the first place rely upon its
own military strength. If military OPP
erations necessitated the measures to
prevent renewed invasion of Poland,
| 1t could hardly be considered fair that
artificial boundaries that do not bind
one opponent should interfere with
the military operations Of the other"
The text Of the correspondence be-,
tween the American and Polish gov
ernments relative to the Poiish-Rus-
sian situation was made public at the
state department. 1t consisted of
message addressed to President Will
son by Premier Witos Of Poland, a
note by Secretary Colby under date
Of August 81, and two replies from
the Polish government, one under
date OF August % and the other Of
August 30.