Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-31
POLES QUIT PEACE
|. PAR[EY At M|NSK
AS REDS GO HOME
Both Sides Plan New Meet
ing, Probably at Riga,
in Week.
SAPlEHA is ANGERED
BY SOVIET HARDSHIPS
Dombski Reaches Brest-Litovsk
With Story Of Ill Treat
ment at Conference.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
WARSAW, August 3O.-Peaee ne.
sotfatiOns between the Polish and
Russian delegations mt Minsk have
been interrupted. according to q wire.
less dispatch received here. Most Of
the Polish delegates have left Minsk
for Brest-Litovsk, while the bolshevfk
Representatives have gone to Moscow,
both sides planning to resume the cor.
ference within a week, probably at
Riga.
Letvfa has agreed TO permit Poland
and soviet Russia to transfer the
Mfnsk peace conference to Riga, This
was done on request Of the Poles.
LITOVSK, Poland. August 3O.-
Tired, dirty and disgusted, NJ. Domb-
ski, NJ. Grabski and several other
members of the Polish peace delega-
ton arrived here from Minsk last
midnight and were received by Prince
Sapieha. the Polish foreign minister,
at army divisional headquarters.
Prince Sapieha and NJ. Dombski inn
mediately held a one-hour CONVERSE
tion, in which the treatment accorded
the Polish delegation at Minsk by
the soviet officials occupied no small
part. This morning Prince Sapieha
told the correspondent that the dele
gates remaining in Minsk would be
recalled Immediately, as it had been
definitely decided to hold no further
negotiations in Minsk. but that the
delegation would go to a neutral city
from Warsaw. The foreign minister
said that had he known sooner of the
indignities suffered by the Polish dele
gates they would have been recalled
long ago.
On Train Two Days.
The Polish representatives reached
Brest-Litovsk, after being on a bol-
shevik train from o'clock Friday
evening till o'clock Sunday evening,
although the distance covered was
only 40 kilometers Approximately
eighty-seven miles,. They were un-
able to leave their compartments, tho
shades of which were closed whenevse
the train was at standstill.
The train reached Zabinka, near
Kobrin, thirty miles northeast OF
Brest-Litovsk, where it was the inten-
ton to motor across the lines Sunday
morning. 1t remained at Zabink4 un-
til o'clock Sunday evening on one
excuse or other, the bolshevists NJ
first saying the bridges were down
and then declaring it was unsafe fer
the delegates to start.
Later developments indicated that
the cause of delay was the inability
of the bolshevists to locate the Polish
advance guard, but had it not been
for the bolshevists delaying the dele
cation would have been in the Polish
lines Saturday morning.
Reds Take Some Towns.
LONDON, August 31.-Russian boil
shevik forces, fighting against Polish
forces north of Brest-Litovsk, have
occupied a number of villages from
ten to twenty miles southeast of Bialy-
stok, says a wireless dispatch from Mos
cow received here today, quoting an Of
fetal statement issued there yester-
day.
Heavy fighting. which is declared to
be favorable to the soviet armies.
continues in the vicinity of Lemberg
and Perelysl. in Galicia, while in the
Oriekhov region of the Crimea the
bolsheviki have been successful, it is
said.
Farther north, near Vladimir Vol
hynsk. soviet troops have occupied
the town Bielz and a number OF VII
lagos north of there. In the neigh
borhood of Brest-Litovsk, where the
bolsheviki claimed yesterday to have
captured several towns from the
Poles. only local fighting is going on.
the statement declares.
Soviet Insists ON Esthonia.
WARSAW, August 30.-A wireless
message from NJ. Tchitcherin. Russian
soviet foreign minister. to Prince
Sapeha. Polish minister of foreign
affairs. dated Sunday afternoon. says:
your proposal to transfer the ne
gotiations to Riga, which reached W.
today. comes rather late. seeing thai
two days before. August 81. we pro-
posed that you transfe. the negotia
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the Esthonian government
with that end in view
1T is feared that the divergine
proposal. coming from you two dsxx
later, will involve still more delay
with your telegram
we received another, from Premier
Wites, who seems to regard Minsk as
to be the scene OF the ne
These divergencies, which
evidently show an absence Of collec-
tive decision on the part Of the Polish
constitute further rea-
you to adopt Esthonia for the ulterior
Budenny Presses Forward
An official communication. issued
tonight, says that Gen. Dudenny's
drive, designed to cut the Polish front.
has made further progress. The
forces are moving slowly in
the direction of Zamosc, northwest of
Lemberg, despite Polish resistance.
The fighting in Galicia has taken a
favorable turn for the Poles. accord
ing to the statement. The Poles in
Galicia have occupied a series Of
places.
ION the northeastern 'front.'" con-
tinues the communication. the Polish
on the line of Grajevo. Os-
sowetz, Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk
have occupied Sokolka, LoHinka,
Czachyk, Podborze and
Along the Bug the
local fighting has been favorable to
the Poles, who have regained Horodlo
and Matcze.
Front Fixed by Allies