The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-06
REDS AND
POLES SIGN
p ..s.--.-s.s
ARMISTlCE..
Negotiations for Peace
Rushing to Speedy
Conclusion. =

P0rls, OCt. o.-DlSp0tcneo from
Warsaw and Moscow today an
nounced that an armistice between
Soviet Russia and Poland has been
signed. according to the Hayas
Agency. 3
Warsaw, Oct 6.-Dlspatches from
Riga that hostilities between the
Poles and Russian soviet forces
will cease Friday under an armi-
stice signed by the Polish aud
soviet peace delegates yesterday.
Riga, Oct. 6.-The Russo Polish
armistice negotiations are being
rushed to a speedy conclusion. but
the Lithuanian Polish situation
seems meanwhile to have become
more acute.
The Polish official statement re-
ceived today reports severe fight
ing with attacking Lithuanian divi-
sions near Orany, about midway
between Grodno and Wilma. and
adds:
1T is stated that Lithuanian
troops are fighting alongside boil
sheviki tSoops." =
According to present plans, which
are not definitely settled, however.
the armistice between soviet Rus
sia and Poland and the preliminary
peace treaty will be signed at
public plenary session of the peace
conference next Friday, Oct. 8.
(Riga dispatches Tuesday night
reported the reaching OF an agree
ment for the signing Of an arnsl-
stice preliminary to peace between
Poland and soviet Russia, not latsf
than Oct. 81
. Russia Accepts Draft
1t was said this morning at the
headquarters Of the Polish delesa-
tion that NJ. Joffe, head of the Ru.!e
sian mission, had accepted virtually
as whole the Polish peace draft
on the II points framed by the
Riga delegation and made public at
the beginning Of the Riga confer
ence. These, 1t is stated. lDve been
approved at Warsaw, but have not
yet been formally presented to the
soviet delegation.
There are understood to be is
points in the new draft. The de-
tails of two of these points have
not been worked out, although the
points have been accepted in prin-
ciple. The working out probably
will be completed today.
The Poles have defined a boun-
dary based on ethnograph.c lines.
which has been accepted but not
yet written in the draft by the Sec
retariat.
Stem Polish Tide.
London, Oct. 5.-(United Press)
Russian troops have stemmed the
Polish advance in many places and
made important gains themselves.
a Moscow wireless said today.
Eastward from the River Nieman
1t was admitted, retreat continued
according TO plan.
"Our advance toward the River
Slutch continues successfully the
wireless said. "In that region we
occupied Leitchef and Derhazany.
in the region Of NOvogrOdek and
eastward from the River Niemen
we continued to retreat according
to plan.
Fighting continues northward
near Nyesvizh.
Near Lunitetz fierce fighting Is
proceeding with our troops advanc-
ing on Novogorod Volhynsk. Fight
ing continues for the possession of
Letitcheff and southwark from
Derazhaya.
"On the Wrangel front we have
recaptured Mariupol." -
Peace between Poland and Rus
sia will be made Friday. according
to reports from Riga, which said
the two delegations will meet that
day to sign an armistice and pre-
liminary peace order.
Adolph Joffe. head Of the Russian
commission. and Jan Dombski.
|, chief of the Polish delegates. were
said to have reached an agreement
on the main points In private con-
versations.
vIc!Ors Cross Niemen.
Warsaw, Oct. 6-(United Press.)
Our advance guard has crossed
the River Niemen on the eastern
'front.'" the Polish communique said
today. -,'
"A Polesian detachment has oc-
cupied the entire line of the LicA-
Rovno railway"
XIII 400 Sailors.
Paris, Oct. 6.-(United Press.}--
Fourteen hundred Russian sailsrs
led a revolt in PetrOgrad Sept. q
which resulted in two days Of street
fighting. according to newspaper,
here today. The reports said thl
/ insurrection was crushed by Chin
ese mercenaries a--d that 81 lead
ers Of the mutiny were shot
The sailors were joined by muni
tions factory workers. according i
the newspaper dispatches. and nd
ed in the manning OF Is naval gun
taken to Petrograd from Kronstad
Four hundred sailors were said Z
have been killed and wounded 1
the two days lighting. -
!, The fighting was extensive. Boz