Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-19
POLES MUST FIGHT
TOANNEX WILMA,
L|THUAN|A WARNS
kovno viii Join Soviet in War
il Warsaw Presses
Claim.


| Ry Cable to The star and Chicago Daily News.
| Copyright. 1920.
| kOVNo. Lithuania. September IS
Lithuania win under no conditions
surrender the province of Wilma. and
uania will be compelled to enter into
a military alliance with soviet Rus
STA. according to NJ. Puryckis, the
Lithuanian foreign minister. When
asked about the Polish charge that
| Lithuania had allowed a red army to
operate on it's territory in accordance
with the terms OF secret conVen-
ton. he replied:
/ British representatives here have
already inquired into this subject.
must deny unqualifedly the existence
of secret arrangements with Moscow
None has ever been concluded outside
the Observation-Disclosures peace treaty
ratined on September 9. which has
now been made public. Under this
| treaty soviet Russia promised to sur
render to US the Lithuanian territory
occupied by Poland when the Russian
army had freed it. Moscow has loy-
ally carried out its obligations, hav-
the territory belonging to us, and is
willing to surrender the remainder If
We undertake to hold it against the
foies. Not single inch OF Lithua-
man ground under our control will
ever be used as base for red army
operations.
Can Teach Poles Something.
On September II a truce was ef-
| fected on the Polish lithuanian front.
A peace conference in the border
town OF kalwarya is now drawing a
demarcation line preliminary to peace
negotiations. which we are anxious
TO begin with Poland as soon as pos
sible. pos
Lithuania now has a population of
nearly 100000, more than 10 per
cent OF which is Jewish. We have
successfully solved the Jewish prob
1 Poes ana hdw are Re vi willing to teach the
pogroms in ithuania. although there
is no difference between Polish and
Lithuanian Jews. BY granting equal
rights to the Jewish population and
rrscosnizing their minority rights we
have found the Jews to be as loyal
70 our government as the remainder
OF the people. Jewish populations
from many Of the border towns are
begging for union with Lithuania.
we are now preparing a note OF
protest to Poland against the pogroms
which have just occurred in Suwalki
and Seijny. The property pillaged or
destroyed in Seijny alone amounted
In value to more than 2.000, 900 marks
1normally $5oo,ooO. The retreating
o-S StokeS, attacked
women and wounded and manned
many persons"
Polish Atrocities PHOTOGRAPHED.
I have seen photographs of some
OF victims of the Polish atrocities at
Grodno which are being forwarded by
the Lithuanian government to Paris
and London. Abram Eber Pix, aged
n way sns;n iather OF nine children.
out Nahum Starovliansky, aged
nineteen, was dragged from cellar.
his eyes were dug out and nails
driven into his head.
It is difncult to verify some of the
pogrom at Bialystok 500 jews were
killed. On the other hand the six
weeks of bolshevist regime in Wilma
almost equaled in misrule that of the
Poles. The reds requisitioned all the
tories. and according to reliable testT-
mony left An empty city. Hundreds
were persecuted or arrested and sew
eral were executed. The Inhabitants
OF the evacuated Lithuanian zone
loatne Polish and bolshevist rule
alike.
Peace Leaders Prepared.
RIGA. September II (by the Asso-
the Polish peace mission, and Adolph
Joffe. chief Of the Russian soviet dele
cation. will meet tomorrow to fix a
date Tor the beginning of the confer
ence at which an armistico and treaty
of peace between Poland and the Rus
sian soviet government will be nego-
tiated. NJ. Lados. secretary of the
Polish mission. said today the soviet
representatives insisted that the meet
| ing in this city should be considered
a continuance of the unsuccessful
conference held at Minsk during Au-
gust.
Poland has not refused the Lettish
| offer to act as an Intermediary be-
| tween that country and Lithuania for
| the settlement of boundary disputes,
| waiting for advices from Prince
| Sapieha. Polish minister Of foreign
| affairs.
Pictures Of the old Russian cars
have been removed from the hall
where the peace conference is to be
| held, this being done at the request
of the soviet delegates. Arrange
| ments have been made by the Polish
\ representatives to issue a daily off,
| cial communique.
! Reds Are Forced Back.
| LONDON. September 1s.-Friday's
ceived by wireless today. admits a
Russian retirement in the Lemberg
region. 1t says:
I'm the region of Lemberg, as a re-
suit of fierce fighting. our troops re-
tired to the line Of Stanislautchik,
/ Sokolow, Bysly and Kamen villages.
The fighting is continuing"
| WARSAW, September 17.-Lutsk, an
important fortified city forty miles