Evening star., 1920-11-22
REDS HALT PEACE
TALK WITH POLES
Soviet Action Is Based on
Charge That Troops Are
Beyond Line Fixed.

6cyOnO llIlc TNcu.
WARSAW, November % (by the
Associated Press).-Negotiations look
ing TO a permanent peace between
soviet Russia and Poland have been
broken OF by the former at Riga.
where the delegations have been In
/ conference.
! Great soviet armies are being gath
cred to crush Gen. Balakovitch. com
! mander of irregular" forces. which
have been operating east OF the arms
/ tice zone between Poland and Russia
proper. and other boisheviki legions
| are pursuing shattered Ckranian arm
4 les. which are fleeing from the region
! west and northwest of Kiev.
All along the southeastern frontier
of Poland there Is pouring in a perfect
rabble of refugees. civilian and mill
! tary, who are seeking safety before the
{ advancing wave of bolshevik armies.
+, This condition of affairs has caused
4 grave concern in this city, no.with-
standing the official optimism over the
break in the Riga peace confer ce-
/ 1t is stated the soviet COVE. nment
! refused to go on with the peace nego-
I tiations because some Polish troops
have not withdrawn to the line fixed in
| the preliminary treaty between the bol-
/ Sheviki and the Warsaw government.
| 1t is stated the demands OF the soviet
! delegation will be met and that the
| pourparlers will be resumed almost at
once.
| LONDON. November 22-The Poles.
complying with the conditions of the
preliminary peace treaty with soviet
| Russia, have abandoned the town OF
Letichev. twenty-five miles east of
Proskurov, and the soviet forces have
occupied the town, says Sundays
soviet official statement, received here
! today by wireless. The occupation
of Mozyr. seventy-two miles south
west of Bobruisk, also is recorded in
the statement.
"Defeat Reds by Russian Trade"
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 1870.
| LONDON, November 22.-To back
the anti-red forces in Russia start
trading with the Russians, is the ad-
vice of the Spectator
1t describes the dreary series OF
failures to smash the bolsheviki, and
draws the conclusion that neither
the British nor the French govern
>hent can claim credit for the slight
est sagacity or precision in dealing
with the Russian crisis.
mo one can hate bolshevism more
than we do" says the Spectator. I'VE
should like to see 1t in utter collapse.
But we cannot knock 1t down by aid
ing it's enemies on Russian soil.
Il
suspicious the moment we meddie
within their territory. We simply have
been manufacturing support for the
regime We want to destroy.
Either bolshevism will be over
thrown by the Russians themselves
or bolshevism will stand. hateful and
despotic illusion though 1t is. So long
| as we or the French or foreigners
of any kind are messing about in
Russia. the boIsheviki can attribute
of hn Pnc
not to themselves, but to us
Fight With Renewed EnerEy.
! WARSAW, November 81 (by the AS
sociated Press).-Fighting with re-
ncwed energy is reported in the north
between Gen. Zellgouski. commander
the Lithuanians. and at various points
| beyond the Polish frnotier, where the
! reds have brought up fresh forces
and thrown them against Balakovitch
Pavlenko and Petfura in Ukraine.
| From Wilma it is reported that the
Lithuanians have launched an ofs
fensive against central Lithuania.
| stroke. driving the Lithuanians
northwest and taking prisoners, in
ciuding a Lithuanian general and the
towns of Giedrojoie and Swieclany.
northeast Of kovno.
senenoR In Peril.
TOXIC. november Il 10y the ASso-
ciated Press).-Gen. Semenoff. leader
of anti -bolshevik forces in the terri
| tory east Of Lake Baikal. faces a
critical situation, and his fall is i'm
minent, says one OF hin headquarters
officers, now in this city. He charges
the japanese high command with
breaking faith with Gen. Semenoff
and says the policy OF Gen. OF. COM
mander of japanese troops In Siberia.
is to keep that region stirred up and
prevent the formation of a buffer
state between soviet Russia and the
far eastern republic.
status Of Russians in China.
PEKING, November 20 (by the As
sociated Press).--The diplomatic body
| has sent to the foreign ONCE a sec
! ond memorandum intended to secure
| an improvement in the status of Rus
| SLAMS in China. The communication
| points out that Russians in this coun-
try have been without a modus
| yivendi for several months.
The memorandum suggests that
Russian courts be continued wherever
possible for the purpose of handling
! cases brought against citizens OF that
country, and also that Russian ad-
| visers be appointed to assist Chinese
/ commissioners administering Russian
affair in districts where Russians are
numerous.
| The note also provides for the ap-
pojntment of a Russian adviser to
the foreign office. All these advisory
/, officers, according to the plan. would
be selected with the assistance of the
diplomatic corps.
Haywood for Soviet Rule.
| BALTIMORE, November ga
soviet rule OF America by the work
+: ing people. founded on and in err
+: tire sympathy with the bolshevik
government of Russia. was advocated
, in plain language by William d. Hay
! wood of Chicago, Industrial Workers
of the World leader. who spoke to an
audience of Baltimore radicals last
night at the Colonial Theater. One
/ million I. w. w. converts will be
| sufficient to accomplish the end. he
| said.
UPHOLDS RENT INCREASE.