Evening star., 1920-09-08
PEACE HOPES FADE
| AS SOVIET DELAYS
| R|GACONFERENCES
Fighting on Large Scale May
Be Renewed During
Winter.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright. 1920.

winter.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
! Copyright 1920.
WARSAW. Poland September s.
About the only question to be settled
by the Riga conference is the frontier
between Russia and Poland. Indemni-
ties and reparations are not expected
to be issued. The logical frontier, it is
claimed, follows the sandy stretches
and the barren marshes along the old
RusSo-German battle front This is q
natural barrier where there are few
good roads and few railroads, making
transportation difficult while the conn
try Is thinly inhabited.
However. only an optimist can ex-
pect results from the Riga conference
More probably. unless the allies inter
1efe with direct proposals. the Poles
and Russians will once more attempt
to reorganize their armies and reonen
hostilities this fall or next spring.
The Russians are said to possess create
man power in winter because the peas
crops.
Al Of Poland's frontiers presen;
problems fraught with great danger
Ihe Poles want wilma. but Wilma l.
claimed by the Lithuanians and Whit
Russians 1t is for this that the Pole
ana Lithuanians have been fighting re.
Gently.
East Prussia Menaced.
East Prussia will always be i.
danger, while divided from the reg
of Germany. The large percentag.
OF Germans in the Danzig corrido
does not tend to peace. Some OBJ.
servers here say that the treatmen:
accorded the Germans by the Pole.
is not much better than the acts o
the Germans toward the Poles Th
corridor Is described as breedin.
N place for hate. Some say that il
would be better to internationaliz
the corridor with strong provision
permitting really free usage by tn
Poles.
The Gepman frontier is now. tn
scene of petty distractions betwee
Berlin and Posen. and an extremel
bad telegraph service. The posta
system is not much better. Uppe
Silesia is certain trouble make
The Poles dislike the prospect of 10
ing the chance to obtain this terr
tory with its coal, but there is hard
a question that upper Silesia W;
vote German.
L Gaiicia is another point of frictic,
|; with the oil fields drawing coyetou
eyes. Premier Lloyd George is sal
to have. proposed the formation
Galicia into buffer state. but it
believed that such a solution won
satisfy no one except those direct
interested in obtaining the
fields. :. Poland's. frontier with tn
Russian Ukraine is an APPARENT.
forgotten problem, but it is certain t,
reappear If Gen. Wrahgel advances
Peace with Russia is not certain t.
frontier calm Poland will be obliged
to exercise all possible tact to avoi,
conflicts.
Reds Play for Time.
Soviet Russia is trying to gain tim,
through further parleying regarding
conditions and privileges to be ac
A triangular conversation is goint
on between the Polish government
NJ. Kaminiecky. representative i,
Lettland of the soviets. and NJ
Tchitcherin, the Russian commissa,
of foreign affairs. who asks TO,
safety Of documents, liberty Of move
ment for the entire soviet personne
and one entire building or unit
| buildings that can house the whole
soviet delegation.
The Polish government asked NJ
] Tchitcherin to try to keep his demand
!, from postponing the conference. and
/ the same time asked the Letvian govern
ment to make all possible efforts T.
grant the soviet requests These r
quests are considered by some to be fc
the purpose Of gaining time. since the.
/ were not included in the first conditions
Just why the soviet should wish t.
| postpone the conference is unknown. BE-
cause hope Of military action is hardi.
probable unless Lithuania provides !;
surprise Lithuania is said to be divided
into military and political camps. the
military wishing to join hands with tn.
bolsheviki against the Poles, and tn
| politicians being desirous Of arranging
1 mia is said to have increased her force
north Of Augustowo.
Border Conditions Serious.
/ WARSAW, September (by the Asso
ciated Press) ).-Conditions along tn
Lithuanian front are becoming more
serious daily. and, according to latest re
ports. the Poles and Lifhuanians m & az
/ yised frontier. In one action two Lth
] uanian officers and 200 men were cap
/ tured by the Poles.
III Germans and Russian bolshevlk:
are aiding the Lithuanians. it Is con,
; tended by Polish authorities. Re
| ports reaching army headquarters
| state that Leon Trotzky. Russian boil
shevik minister Of war and marine
has ordered soviet troops to help the
Lithuanians to drive the Poles out
l
| ever, contend they have not crossed
the demarcation line fixed by the al
lies
Trotzky is asserted to be carrying
on a campaign of propaganda, declar-
ing the "Polish invasion" threatens
Lithuanian independence and urine
that the Poles be expelled at all
costs.
It is contended. by the Poles that
the Germans and bolsheviki planned
to use ithuania as corridor con.
necting Russia and East Prussia. Re-
/ ports have been received which seem
to indicate that German military and
commercial interests have combined
with the bolshevikf to encourage
| Lithuanians to wage war against
Poland.
| Lithnanians Make Protest.
COPENHAGEN, September s.-Th,
Lithuanian government will make al
energetic protest against the recruit.
| ing by the French military commits.
sion Of Lithuanians for Gen. WrangeI.
anti bolshevik south Russian army, i
is stated in semi-official Lithuanian
quarters here. Unless the recruitine
ceases Immediately, it Is declared, th1
French government will be asked t.
withdraw its commission; whose &C
tivities are asserted to be bringing
Lithuania into conflict with the peace
conditions Of soviet Russia.
] LONDON, September 8.-Tuesday',
official statement from Moscow, re
porting engagsments, between Polisl
TN the Brest-Litovsk region ",
twenty-five miles. north OF Brest
Litovsk). In the region Of Vladimir
volynsk (about midway betwee,