New-York tribune., 1920-10-06
Agreement Is Reached at
Riga ON an Armisticc
Preliminary to Peace :;
Details Public To-day
ROut of Bolsheviki
In Field Complete
200, 600 Flee From Petro-
grad to Escape Starva-
ton as Famine Impends

RIGA, Oct. 5 (By The Associate d
Prcss). ).4An agreement for the signing
Of an armistice, preliminary to peace,
not later than October s, was reached
this evening by NJ Jofe and NJ. Domb
ski, heads Of the Russian and Polish
delegations respectively.
NJ. Dombski told The Associated
Press that the details of the agreement
would be made public tomorrow. He
said the agreement was on the Polish
eleven points declaration made at the
beginning of the Riga conference, after
M. Joffe's Moscow declaration.
Reports of internal dissensions in
Warsaw are causing some uneasness.
There are many indications that the
fpeedy signature of an armistice would
be a great personal victory for M.
Dombski, chief Polish delegate, and
possibly make of him such an impor-
tant political figure in Poland that the
peasant party would insist on his eleva-
tion to the Premiership.
OISS dhc J-,UUU IiSOucIS
The Polish official communication re-
ceived to-day by the peace delegates
says that in the last week the Poles
have taken $1,000 prisoners, 1870 guns,
LOO machine guns, seven armored
trains. 28 locomotives and much other
material
Attaches of the Polish General Staff
here say that the Poles now occupy the
greater part of the old German trench
system on the BaranoviJch line, notably
in the Ida sector and in the direction
of Minsk, which, they insist, however, is
not their objective.
PARIS, Oct. 5.-Advices reached the
French Foreign Office to-day that the
advance of General Wrangel, anti Red
leader in South Russia, is continuing,
and that the rout of the northern
Soviet armies facing the Poles las
been complete.
In interior Russia the Foreign Of
fee advices showed, it was said. that
the situation was desperate owing to
the threatened famine, which it was
predicted would make the two previous
lean winters seem to have been sea-
sons of abundance by comparison.
In comment upon the successes Of
the Poles and General Wrangel again t
the Russian Soviet troops the opin-
ion was expressed by the French For
eign Office that the situation of the
Soviet government had never been so
precarious as it was at present. The
Soviet authorities, it was declared. had
never been as ready as now to make
concessions.
LONDON, Oct. 5.-Further reports
of Reorganization and revolt in Soviet
Russia have been obtained by
Reuters, Limited, from "a reliable
person who has Just crossed the from
tier into Finland'
Red Army Disorganized
Reuters informant says the Red
army is in a state Of disorganization
that tie harvest is exceptionally bad
and that revolts have broken out in
Siberia At Tombov and near Samara
there is great unrest ar-ong the work
men.
The Bolsheviki are anxious about
General Wrangels successes in the
south, and the latest call of Trotzky
is for "liqudation of the southern
front before winter"
The Bolsheviki, say the advices.
realize that this winter will be the
hardest they have experienced and
that it is doubtful whether it will pass
calmly.
Dispatches to the Exchange Tele-
graph and the Central News from Hell
singfors, Finland, quote Russian re-
ports of an increasing exodus from
Petrograd in order to escape threat
ened starvation. The dispatches say
that 100000 persons have left the for
mer capital and that outgoing trains
are crowded.
CONsTANTINOPLE, Oct. (By The
Associated Press) 1t is reported from
Sebastopol t.lat the troops Of General
Wrangel's South Russian government,
developing their offensive against the
Soviet forces, have occupied Petroviket
and Novespassovik, on the coast of
the Sea of Azov. The reports say Cen
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