The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-09
RUSSIA IN REVOLT
Crisis Faced by Moscow Gov
eminent Is Report.
New BOlsheYik Offensive
Against Poland Started.
HOSTILITIES ARE RESUMED
Both Poles and BOISheviki Have
New Peace Terms.
More in Retreat.

! London Oct. "a great rebellion
has broken out in Moscow, seat of the
soviet government, according to a
copenhagen dispatch to the Daily
Telegraph today. The dispatch quoted
Riga adviceS.
Foreign Minister Curzon today sent
stern reply to the Bolshevik response
to Britain's virtual ultimatum de-
manding release of war prisoners and
cessation of Red propaganda.
Curzon informed NJ. Krassin, soviet
commissioner here, that British pris-
| oners should be released Immediately,
! saying this was the foreign Offices last
word and would be followed by ac-
ton
Soviet Reign Totters.
The allies have been authoritatively
informed the soviet regime in Russia
is tottering. The situation on the Po-
lish- Bolshevik front was obscure, altho
hostilities were supposed to have
ceased following signing of prelimi-
nary armistice at Riga. The Evening
Standard printed a wireless from For
eign Minister Tchitcherin to Krassin,
saying:
The Bolsheviki have resumed the
offensive and the Poles are retreating
in disorder. Nevertheless. we are
conducting peace negotiations despite
these promised triumphs.''
Riga, Oct. Both Poland and Rus
ditions at the peace conference now
in session here, and negotiations are
continuing. 1t was expected that the
new terms would be signed by both
SIDES today. Hostilities have already
ceased following signing of the pre-
liminary armistice.
The Lithuanians and Poles engaged
in a heavy battle lasting all of yester-
day and last night, sixteen versts
101z miles) south of Wilma. the Lithu-
anian capital, with heavy losses to
both sides, says a Lithuanian official
statement dated at Wilma today.
THE fighting will be to finish"
the statement adds.
Delegates of Poland and Soviet Rus
STA, who held a long session last night
in an effort to reach an agreement for
an armistice, resumed their attempts
today.
Several points remain to be settled
before it is possible for an armistice
agreement to be signed. The Poles in
sist that there must be an interval
of six days after signature before the
armistice becomes effective.
They declare it will be impossible to
reach scattered cavalry organizations
along the Bolsheviki front in less time.
The Bolsheviki desire but four days of
grace.
A decision on the Polish claims for
repayment of gold deposits taken by
the Russians from the state banks of
Warsaw when that city was threat
ened by the Germans during the
great war. also must be reached, and
the details of the line of demarcation
between Poland and White Russia
and Ukrainia. as we'll as the economic
clauses of the agreement remain yet
to be worked out.
Poles Report Advance.
Warsaw, Oct. 9.-Tonight's state
ment from the Polish war office an
nounces a further advance by the
Polish forces in the north. 1t makes
no mention of an armistice with the
BoiShevik1.
The statement reports the capture
by the Poles of Oshmiany and the
railway station of Soly. cutting com
munication between Wilma and Molo-
dechno, northwest of Minsk. With
reference to the Lithuanian front, the
communique says the Lithuanians, de-
spite the armistice. have resumed hos
tilities and have been attacking Polish
positions along the river Merrechanka-
A new instruction against the Rus
sian soviet government has broken
out in the district of Nizhni-Novgorod,
265 miles northeast of Moscow. ac-
cording to information reaching the
Russian colony in this city. The in
surrection, which was inaugurated by
the social revolutionary party, en-
braces great masses of peasants, and
is reported TO De spreading III GIL III
rections-
A new Instruction against the
Russian soviet government has
broken out in the district OF
Nizhni- Novgorod. 265 miles north
east of Moscow. according to informa-
ton reaching the Russian colony in
this city. The insurrection, which was
inaugurated by the social revolution
ary party, embraces great masses OF
peasants, and is reported to be spread
ing in all directions.
British Officer Joins Wrangel.
London, Oct. 9.-Maj. Gen. Charles
v. F. Townshend. who commanded
British forces which surrendered to
the Turks at Kut- El-Amara in 1915.
is going to join Gen. Baron Wrangel
on the Crimean front. says the Daily
Sketch.