Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-08-20

would be no war by the entente. If
the Minsk meeting failed of results,
he declared, the allies had decided on
these lines of action: "a No action,
except to support Poland in the strug-
gle for existence; (2) only to give sup
port to the nation which fights its
own struggles; (3) no allied troops to
be sent to Poland; az the allies will
help to equip the Poles for their own
defense: (5) to give military advice
and guidance; (6) economic pressure
to be brought to bear on Russia %
to help Wrangel and all other counter
revolutionaries; (S) end of trading ne
g~otiations.
Turning to the Russian representa-
tives who sat in the gallery, the little
Welshman said: eff you want peace,
get 1t now If you are out to chal-
lenge the liberties of Europe, we will
meet you and fight to the end"
British labor leaders had already
warned Lloyd George there would be
a general strike if the nation went to
war, but at the conclusion of the pre-
mier's speech Mr.. Clyne, their chief,
declared the laborites do not favor
soviet ideas and methods, and that if
they were convinced the soviet gov
eminent was aggressive, they would
be forced to consider supporting the
British government.
XoronnnfP outlined tho ornofcfiOa
terms the soviet was offering Poland,
and in some respects they were rea-
sonable. They inc lded. however, de-
mobilization of the Polish army with
in one month and the rehabilitation
of all war industries. Another clause
demanded that the families of all Pol
ish citizens killed, wounded or inca
pacitated in the a shall be given
land free. This ra looked on as a
part Of the plan co establish soviet
rule In Poland.
The encircling movement of the
soviet armies carried them across the
Warsaw-Danzig RI way and down
toward the Vistula from the north.
But the other rail line to Danzig,
through Thorn, s. med safe for the
present. The Polish forces were be-
ing concentrated ord regrouped, and
O competent observer, formerly in the
American army, declared that though
the Polish position was serious it was
not desperate. The stories of panic
and complete loss Of morale he said
were false, and were the result of a
propaganda by the enemies of Poland.
The spirit of the Polish people was
still high, he asserted, and men and
women in large numbers were volun-
teering in all classes of war service.
A correspondent who has just COM
pleted the trip from V~ladivostok to
Finland says that from one end of
Russia to the other is heard the cry
for food and clothing, and Nikolai
Lenine himself is said to have admit
ted that the Russian people cannot
pass through another winter like the
last.
On Wednesday the soviet govern
ment signed a provisional peace treaty
with Letvia and agreed with Finland
upon armistice conditions. These ar
engagements will make more difficult
the maintenance of a blockade of Rus
STA by the allies if that course is
found necessary.
In Persia the REDS have withdrawn
from Enzeli and some other places be-
cause of lack of supplies, but they
have established headquarters of a
Persian soviet republic at Ardebil, a
little south of the Caspian. The old
government remains at Teheran,
though its flight has been rumored re-
peatedly.
Greece continues to increase her
forces in Asia Minor and has captured
some more strategic positions. Renal
Pasha, however, has not quit by any
means and recent dispatches say 15,-
600 Tartars are on the way to join his
nationalist troops for a great offensive
against the Greeks, probably on the
Smyrna front. According to an agree
ment between Italy and Greece the
Dodecanesus has been transferred to
Greek sovereignty except Rhodes,
where a plebiscite will be held some
time in the future.
Technically the world wal came to
an end Tuesday, so far as the allied
nations and their opponents are con-
cerned. On that day the last of the
peace treaties, that with Turkey, was
signed in Sevres, near Paris. The
Jugo-Slavs refused to sign because the
treaty provides that the Ottoman debt
be partitioned among former Turkish