The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-07-23
EUROPE AGAIN ON
GAUNT VARS BRINK
Mobilization May Result In
Rejection Of English
Ultimatum

ment was issued today declaring Ger
many's complete neutrality in the
situation arising from the hostilities
in progress between Russia and Pc.
land. The statement was signed by
President Ebert and Foreign Minis.
ter Simons.
Paris, July 21-The political situa-
ion upon which rests the peace of Eu.
roperope is declared by official
sources here tonight to be more seri-
Gus than any that has arisen since the
armistice.
"Altho neither France nor Britain
is mobilizing yet, it Is clearly Eng.
lands task now to uuravel .be tangle
arising from PRIMER Lloyd Georges
virtual ultimatum Ia Soviet Russia
nd the latter's refusal to comply with
it," said an official of the Foreign Of
fee to me late today.
"Unless Britain accepts Moscow's
view Internationally and withdraws
her request to act az Intermediary be-
tween Poland and the Soviets for an
armistice and peace, diplomats here
see in the dispatch of large Franco
British army to the Polish front the
only possible solution of the prob
lem"
Situation Desperate.
Poland's, military situation is adj
mittedly desperate. The Russian
Commander-in-chief, adopting Hin
denburg's strategy, has succeeded in
placing Warsaw, the Polish capital,
in a position where it is bound to be
squashed within the remorsely clos
ing pinchers of the Soviet war ma
chine il Moscow gives the word to go
on with the campaign. beyond Po-
lands borders.
The Soviet commander perform
ed the unparalleled feat of bringing
$4,000 men from the Caucasus to
the Galician frontier within four
days and his left wing is now less
than 100 miles from Warsaw, ap-
parently awaiting cooperative action
by the right wing, which is few
miles from the East prussian border,
before starting the final drive. The
final drive, if undertaken, will throw
the entire Soviet force into a formida-
BILE line which the Poles can not hope
to stop.
Meanwhile, eight divisions are
menacing Memel, the strategic port in
East Prussia, lao miles from Dan
zig.
Forbidden to Stop Reds.
Military experts here do not doubt
that the reds will occupy Memel in
a few days unless the allies permit
the Germans to rush an army thither
to defend the port. That. however, is
forbidden by the Spa agreement. ,
Failing allied Intervention, Russia
in the opinion of all well-informed
observers here. will inevitably over
run not only Poland and East Prus-
sa, but will menace the whole of
Prussia. including Berlin.
Backing up their demand for per-
mission to fight the Bolsheviki, the
Germans in a note to the allies to-
day stated that the communist ele-
ments in Germany are becoming in
creasingly strong. and that a "bar-
rier of bayonets" is necessary to pre-
vent establishment of Soviet rule in
Germany.
Incidentally, the German note
points out that the Russian armies to-
day are exactly half way between
Moscow and France. %
Tho the war office denies that mo-
bilization of the French army is i'm
minent, it is reported that French Of
ficers who are members of allied mis-
sions in Poland and neighboring
countries may be assigned at once to
service in the Polish army.
The consequences of a possible hos
tile attitude on the part of the allies
toward the Soviets are frankly viewed
with the greatest apprehension in
competent quarters here.
There is no question that the allies
are able to forward to Poland Ger
man war material, ammunition and
other fighting paraphernalia now
stored in East Prussia awaiting de-
struction under the supervision OF al
lied missions. but the problem is to
supply the Polish front with suffi-
cient men to resist the threatened on
slaught of the Soviet armies, task
which qualified experts here describe
as impossible.
Tho the Russians have but limit