Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10

1t is probable, if the plans are APP.
proved, that they will not go into eff.
fcct until the preliminary results Of
the meeting at Minsk between the
soviet and Polish negotiators are
known. If these indicate a willing
ness by the Russians to adopt
course considered reasonable in deal
ing with The Poles, the allied aid may
be withheld,
NEW MEETING AT MINSK
PROPOSED BY BOLsHEVIKI
LONDON, Aug. 9.-The Russian
situation is going before the British
cabinet tonight and before Parlia.
ment tomorrow, according to de-
clsions reached at the conference
between Premiers Lloyd George and
Millerand at Hythe today. Premier
Millerand planned to start for Paris
this afternoon, where the situation
probably will be placed before his
ministry.
While Lloyd George and Millerand
were going over the recommends.
tons for military and naval action
submitted to them by Marshal Foch
Field Marshal Wilson and Admiral
eBatty, the Russians were pounding
the forts of Warsaw with artillery,
while masses of bo1shevik cavalry
secured the country toward the War
|saw-Danzig railway, the main artery
connecting Poland with the allies.
The Polish official statement said
the "enemy's massed cavalry" had
taken PrZanyaZ, forty miles north
of Warsaw.
Reds Propose New Meeting.
The situation as it stood today
was: Russia, having refused the
British profefr of a ten-day peace
during which a temporary peace
could be arranged, has proposed that
another meeting be held at Minsk on
Wednesday between Polish and Rus
sian armistice delegates to agree on
a basis for cessation of hostilities
Meanwhile, however, the bolshevik
offensive continues, with many in
dications that the reds are determin-
ed to take Warsaw before making
peace terms.
Advices from Warsaw said that the
streams of refugees continued to
flow westward from that city, while
the peasants, fleeing before the boil
shevik advance, swarmed into town
from the east. The Polish army had
lost contact with the enemy at
many places by means of a strategic
retreat, and the country thus sur
rendered was being overrun with the
hard riding Russian cavalrymen, who
swarmed over roads and fields in
dense masses
Would Avoid Rostil1ties.
Lloyd George was understood to
be striving his hardest to find a
way out of the dilemma without ac-
tual hostilities, while it was reported
the French were urging immediate,
decisive military action. The prob
ability was that unless the new Rus
sian note, which was expected to
outline fundamental peace terms,
changed the situation, the premiers
would compromise on a policy nm.
der which they would aid Poland
with munitions and blockade Russia
unless they determined definitely
whether Russia menaced Poland's in.
tegrity.
BLOCKADE PROPOSED TO y.
CHECK SOVIET INVASION
HYTHE, Eng, Aug. s.-How to
save western Europe from Bolshe-
vism was the burden Of the discuss
sion at this mornings conferences
here between Premiers Lloyd George
and Millerand, and although the
final decision was still pending this
afternoon, the chief weapons will
probably be a blockade and the estab.
lishment Of a defensive line in Pc.
land.
It is stated that the allies. al
though loath to admit it, now feel
there is little hope of saving Warsaw.
Rnd that the question of Poland is
no longer the sole issue. The main
problem confronting the premiers is
the defense of western Europe.
In British and French circles, 1t
is declared that the intenttans of the
Bolsheviki regarding Poland are be-
coming clearer every hour. The pre-
vailing impression among the British
and French officials is that the soviet
government hopes through the Pol
ish offensive, firmly to establish Boil
shevism at the doors of the western
powers.
A continuation Of the conference
this afternoon is said to have been
necessitated through the failure Of
the two premiers to agree on the Sit
uation. Premier Millerand is firm
in urging the French policy, which
includes the blockade and defensive
measures already indicated. It Is
stated that Premier Lloyd George,
although not opposed to a blockade,
is reluctant to several definitely ali
negotiations with Russia, and it is
believed that Nm. Kammeneff and
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