Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-08-19
news review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
France Acts Independently Of
Great Britain in the Russo
Polish Complication.
PROMISES AID TO WRANGEL
America to Use "AIl Available Means"
TO Preserve PoIand's Independence
-Resistance to Red Armies In
creasing-Express Workers
Get Wage Increase.
BY EDWARD W. pIckARp.


The United States will employ "all
available means" to safeguard the in
dependence and territorial integrity Of
Poland, and will not recognize the
soviet government of Russia.
The French government has recog-
nized the Wrangel government Of
southern Russia and will give it mill
tary aid against the bolsheviki; and
the French representatives in London
have been instructed to break off all
relations with Krassin and Kameneff.
the soviet trade commissioners there.
The British government, though
somewhat dismayed by the American
and French announcements and the
apparent break with France, still
hopes and believes a peace can be ne
g0tiated between Russia and Poland.
The Russians, persisting in their re-
fusal to permit mediation by any third
party, sent delegation to Minsk to
meet the Poles, and continued their
circling movement designed to cap
ture Warsaw.
The Poles sent representatives to
Minsk to talk armstice, and, having
withdrawn in good order from their
advanced POSITIONS established two
lines of defense before Warsaw and
prepared for an extensive counter
stroke.
In the lineup of the powers. Italy
stands with Great Britain, and France
counts on the support of the United
States. Germany maintains an osten-
sible neutrality while hoping for the
crushing of Poland, believing the
Polish adventure was instigated and
directed by France.
Such Is the summary of conditions,
on the day of writing, in the biggest
Of the wars that are still going on.
President Wilson's statement of
Americas position was made to Italy.
In 1t he suggested that the conflict
might be ended by the withdrawal of
all Russian forces from Poland and
the withdrawal of all allied troops
from photographic Russia, together
with assurances by the allied and as
ISOLATED powers that Russia will not
be dismembered. He urged that any
dealings with the soviet regime be con-
fined within "the most narrow boun-
daries to which the discussion of an
armistice can be confined" and scored
the soviet government as that of q
tyrannical and dIshonorable minority
whose assurances and guarantees are
practically worthless. In asking that
the true boundaries of Russia be re-
spected, the note specified that those
boundaries should not include Fin
land. ethnic Poland or such territory
as may by agreement form part of
the Armenian state. Just what the
president meant by "all available
means in promising aid to Poland
was not made clear, but it was as
sumed. both by government officials
and by the representatives Of Poland
in Washington, that the phrase did
not include the dispatch of troops.
Prince Lubomrski, the Polish minis
ter, did not ask for armed assistance,
but said the need of his countrymen
was for food, clothing, arms and other
war munitions. These, he added, are
needed Immediately and imperatively.
A conference of the British and
French premiers was held at Hythe
and, returning to London, Lloyd
George told the house Of commons
that he still believed in peace. He
said Russia was entitled to strict
guarantees against repetition of the
Polish attack but was not entitled to
destroy Poland as nation; If Russia
acted within those conditions there