The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-09
ENTENTE RENEWS
SOVIET BLOCKADE.
Allies at Hythe Agree on Russo
Polish Plans.
Will Not Send Troops to Stop
Red Drive.
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WAS ADVICE OF EXPERTS
BOIsheviki Determined to Take
Warsaw Then Make Peace.
Lloyd George Anxious to Avoid
Declaration of War.

Hythe, Eng. Aug. 9.-The allied
I conference here reached a complete
agreement this afternoon on plans for
dealing with the Russo Polish forces
! They include the reimposition of the
| blockade. but on the advice of the
! experts, no allied troops will be en-
ployed.
Poland Complains to League.
London. Aug. 9.-Poland has COM
planned to the League of Nations
against the conduct of the Russians.
it was reported today. The Polish
! foreign office was said to have sent a
note to the league charging that the
Reds by various pretexts refused to
negotiate an armistice. 1t places sole
ly on Russia the responsibility for con
tinued fighting
The Russian situation is going be
fore the British cabinet tonight and
before parliament tomorrow, accord
ing to decisions reached at the con-
ferences between Premiers LLOYD
George and Millerand at Hythe today.
Millerand planned to start for Paris
this afternoon where the situation
will probably be placed before his
ministry.
Pound Warsaw Forts.
While Lloyd George and Millerand
were going over the recommendations
for military and naval action submit
Field Marshal Wilson and Admiral
Beatty, the Russians were pounding
forts Of Warsaw, while masses of
Bolshevik cavalry secured the country
toward the Warsaw-Danzig railway
the main artery connecting Poland
with the allies. The Polish official
statement said the "enemyS mRssed
cavalry" had taken Przanyaz. forty
miles north of Warsaw.
Russia has refused the British prof
fer7of ten day peace during which a
temporary peace could be arranged,
and has proposed that another meet
ing be held at Minsk on Wednesday
between Polish and Russian armistice
delegates to agree on a basis for ces-
sation of hostilities. Meanwhile. how
ever, the Bolshevik offensive contin-
ues with many indications that the
Reds are determined to take Warsaw
before making peace terms
Advices from Warsaw said that the
streams of refugees from Warsaw con-
tinued to flow westward from the city,
while the peasants, fleeing before the
BOlshevik advance, sWarmed into the
town from the east The Polish army
had lost contact with the enemy at
many places by means of strategic
retreat and the country thus surren-
dered was being overrul4 with the
Russian cavalrymen, who swarmed
over roads and fields in dense masses.
Lloyd George Not Warlikc.
Premier Lloyd George was under
stood TO be striving his hardest to find
a way out without actual hosti1ities,
while it was reported the French were
urging immediate decisive military ac-
ton The proba ability was that unless
the new Russian note, which was ex-
pecte.. to outline fundamental peace
terms, changed the situation, the pre-
miers would compro Use on a policy
under which they would aid Poland
with munitions and blockade Russia,
unless they determined definitely
whether Russia menaced Poland s
integrity. In the event that Poland's
independence was menaced. the allies
would adopt more drastic measures, it
was believed.
There We're rumors that Lloyd
George would try to turn the blockade
of Russia over to the League of Ma
tions. thus avoiding antagonizing the
laborites who sympathize with Rus
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