Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-23
Britain Joins in
MOue TO Halt
MUdsiOn.
PHSUDSKI WANTS
FRONTIER OFI7z2
Can't Desert People
of Old Polish
State.

Poland has been cautioned by the
American government not to permit
her armies in their present counter
offensive against the Russian boil
sheviki to advance beyond the
ethnographic boundaries Of Poland
Informal representations on the
subject, it was stated officially to-
day, have been made to the Polish
government through the American
charge at WarsaY.
The attitude of the United States
with respect to the invasion of Rus-
sian territory was made plain to
Poland formally in the United States
note on the Polish situation adj
dressed to the Italian ambassador.
In requesting a declaration from
the allied and associated powers in
favor of the preservation of the in-
,tegrity Of Russia, the United States
suggested also that such declara-
ton should be accompanied by the
announcement that no transgression
BY Poland will be permitted"
Great Britain has Joined with the
United States, officials said, in the
endeavor to prevent a second viola
ton BY Poland of Russian territory.
and unofficial advices already re-
ceived contain assurances of the in
tention of the Polish government to
heed the advice of the United States
and Great Britain.
The ethnographical boundaries OF
Poland. it was explained. are those as
Paris and as they actually existed
before the boisheviki advanced into
Poland.
Sir Auckland Geddes, the British am
bassador. who has just returned from
a vacation in Maine, conferred today
and Mr.. Colby were understood to
have discussed several subjects. in
cluding the Polish situation. Great
Britain has not yet made rejoinder
to the American note to Italy on this
question. and is not expected to make
one until after Premier Lloyd George
has concluded his conferences with the
allied premiers.
It is the belief here that the British
nremier desires to reach an under
standing with the French and Italian
premiers and possibly with Germany
before the rejoinder is prepared.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News. Copyright, 1920.
PARIS, France, August 23.-Semi-
official reports from Warsaw contain
important indications that the Polish
government in it's negotiations with
the bolsheviki has declared positively
that it cannot desert the people who
formerly formed part of the old Pol
ish state. This apparently means that
Gen. Pilsudski clings to his idea of re-
establishing Poland's 1772 frontier as
for negotiation between this line and
Poland proper series of buffer
states under Polish protection.
In 1772 the frontier followed rough
1y the line of the Rivers Dvina and
Dnieper. including Kiev. Poland
south line through Brest-Litovsk.
The peoples to which the Polish gov
ernment refers are therefore those
living in the broad expanses of for
est, plain and marsh between these
two lines. In the north the Let's and
Lithuanians have established sepa-
rate states and made treaties with
the bolsheviki. The so-called white
Russians" living east of Brest-
Litovsk. have nothing resembling a
government and show no signs of be-
ing capable of establishing one. AS
for the great southern section of the
contested region, the question as to
whether the Ukrainians really form a
separate nationality from the Rus
SLAMS is still unsettled.
See British Opposition.
There are Poles scattered every
where throughout these regions,
from the Baltic to the Black sea, but
there are very few districts where
they have anything like a majority.
Britain will certainly oppose Gen. Pill
sudskis plan for buffer states. Britain
even favors giving Lemberg and
eastern Galicia to the Russians.
France wants Poland to keep all of
Galicia, but i have every reason to
believe that France will oppose the
1872 frontier project and recomm end
to the Poles that they keep to their
proper photographic boundaries. in
the hope ultimately of effecting a rec
onciliation between Poland and Rus
Sia.
1t is probable that this question has
been discussed in the recent diplo-
matte exchanges between France and
the United States. and that the United
States is in agreement with France
that is to say. favors giving Poland
Galicia, but nothing more. lying east
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