Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-27
POLES COUNSELED
TO SECURE "bEST"
M|L|TARYPOS|T|0N
French Tell Them It Would
Influence Terms of
Peace.
BRITISH CONSIDERING
ANSWER OF SOVIET
10000 Reds Killed, $4,000 Taken
Prisoner, 10000 Are
Interned.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, August 27.-The foreign
ministry announced today that France
| had counSeled Poland to attain the
| best strategical military position pos
| sible until peace is signed, regardless
! of her ethnographical frontier, be-
| f1uence the peace terms.
France has advised Poland. however,
to withdraw her armies within the
Polish frontier upon the signing of
peace. the foreign office added.
Eighty thousand Russian soviet SOL
| diers have been captured in Poland,
10000 killed and 10000 interned, in
report received from the French mis-
sion in Poland.
British Consider Soviet Reply.
LONDON, August 27-The soviet
reply to the note of Arthur j. Bal
four. lord president of the council,
signifying the willingness of the Rus
sian soviet government to withdraw
the clause in the Russian peace terms
to Poland concerning the army of Po-
lish workmen, is under consideration
by the British government. A copy
of the reply has been sent to Pre-
! mier Lloyd George at Lucerne.
In usually well informed quarters
ment has agreed to withdraw the Of
Tending clause there is no need for
further action at present by Great
Britain.
Delegates Hungry at Minsk.
WARSAW, August 26 (by the Asso-
ciated Press) .-The Polish peace dele
gates at Minsk are hungry. An
urgent appeal has been received by
the ministry of foreign affairs asking
1. Il 81 %I<
delegates The message asserts that
the delegates are eager for any kind
of food, but they desire nom perishable
varieties.
AS an indication that the Minsk
conference may continue Indefinitely,
pre- parationS are being made to send
there five young woman stenogra-
piers, who have been asked for by
the delegates. Five of the women
will go from the ministry of foreign
affairs. They will take plenty of food
! for themselves.
| Warsaw Press Pessimistic.
The Warsaw press is becoming pes
simistic regarding the Minsk peace
negotiations. The newspapers. with
the exception of the socialist journals,
express the belief that the moment is
propitiouS to ':liquidate bolshevism."
In some political circles there are in
d ications of an increasing feeling that
the negotiations may come to moth
ing. although there have been official
announcements to the contrary.
The miltarists are advocating
continuance of the war to compel the
soviets to seek terms. and the change
in the Danzig situation has had a ten
dency to encourage the militarist ele
mentS.
Conference Fails to Meet.
MINSK, August 90 (by wireless to
Moscow, August 26).-There was no
meeting of the soviet-Polish confer
ence today. This was due, the
Poles said, to the fact that they had
not heard from Warsaw regarding
Ukrainia.
The soviet delegates sent protest
to the Polish delegation charging that
the Poles were delaying the confer
ence. This delay. which they assert
ed was unquestionably real delay.
was significant with the Polish army
occupying Brest-Litovsk.
The protest added that despite the
fact that the Poles were maintaining
that they could not communicate with
Warsaw through their own wireless,