The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-26
Drive Reds Out of Captured
Strong Points.
Despite Armisfice Orders Fight
ing Is Being Continued.
BRITISH TO YIELD WRANGEL
Surrender Anti-SOViet Leader to
Get Peace Farley. y
Declare Germany, Not Russia, Is
Real Menace of Europe.

London. July 26.-The peace con-
ference between the Russians and
Poles will begin at Baranovitchi, 50
miles southwest of Minsk on July 80,
and the arnfistice Will start the same
day. the Associated Press. learned to-
day. The Lloyd George boundary line
will hold in the north and the actual
military line in the south on July 80
will be observed.
London. July 26.-The allies will
agree TO the surrender of General
Baron sWrangel. anti-Bolshevik COM
mander in southern Russia, as de-
manded by the Moscow government as
a preliminary to a peace conference to
be held in London, it was understood
here today.
The soviets guaranteed WrangeFs
personal safety in their message to the
British government agreeing to a con-
ference at London at which all allied
nations would be represented for set
Ting the Russian-Polish war.
Armistice Paricy Started.
Bolshevik commanders in the field
have begun armistice negotiations with
Polish military chiefs, a Moscow wire
less message said. A general confer
ence of military chieftains to negotiate
I a formal armistice will be held shortly.
A message from Warsaw declared
despite the armistice preliminaries,
& LIS Alt4llS was pIOSESSSlIs- he 6OleS
were said to have recaptured the city
of Grodno. Poles also captured sew
eral forts along River Niemen. Many
prisoners and a quantity of material
were taken. The Red armies were said
to have suffered heavy casualties in an
unsuccessful attempt to cross the Me
men after which they evacuated
| Grodno. The soviet armies were re-
ported driven out OF Rudnia and
Chotyn- -Kosin.
Call 1t Diplomatic Victory.
| In allied circles here, belief pre-
! vailed that the entente had won the
diplomatic battle with the Bolsheviki
The British armistice proposal was
chara cterized as a statesnlanlike rec
ognition of the necessity for real world
! peace The armistice proposal was
also declared a recognition of the i'm
perativeness of resumption of Russian
! trade relations.
/ J. L. Garvin. writing in the OBJ
server. declared. despite the walls OF
experts in Paris, there can be no
strict execution of the Versailles
/ treaty. I'm the interests of the entente
itself, no less than the stability OF
/ Europe as a whole, there must be a
deliberate and timely revision of the
treaty or there will result total coll
lapse involving the loss sof many re-
suits of the world war"
Huns Arc Real Menace.
Garvin declared the French mill
tarist conception>of Poland as a strong
buffer state was never anything but
a fantastic myth of visionary minds
But the real danger to the peace
of the world is Germany. Ludendorf1
with his tongue in his cheek. pro-
fesses extreme gloom, but all German
militarists would sell their souls to
the devil in order to restore national
prestige. If the Germans were al
lowed to evade the disarmament termr
of the treaty on the grounds of de-
fense against the menace of Bolshe-
vism, their real purpose would be tc
unite with the Bolsheviks."
Reds Demand Poles Disarm
Vienna, July 26.-It is reported ir
apparently reliable quarters here thai
the first stipulation the Bolsheviki will
require of the Poles before entering
into peace negotiations will be that th'
Poles disarm completely so that nego
tiations might not be used to gair
time or to await the arrival of French
or British reinforcements.