The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-30
To BRING
PEACE N
POLAND.
British Government Goes
Ahead With Plans for Arm
istice With Rus
sia.
BoLSHEvIKI FIGHTING
Moscow Wireless Continues to circu.
late Reports Of Victories by
Red Army Against
Poles
B0LsHEvIKI FIGHTING

United Press Leased wire SerV1Ce.J
LONDON, July 30.-While the Mos
cow wireless continued to circulate
reports Of bolshevik victories, tho
British government today was going
vigorously ahead with plans for
bringing about peace between the
soviets and the Poles.
A new British note to the bolshe-
Wiki was made public. 1t urged the
Moscow government to authorize M.
Kemenoff and M. Krassin to make
preliminary arrangements for the
Russian-P Polish peace conference In
London for the trade conference. It
suggested these delegates be, given
power to conclude the agreement for
resumption Of trade. The note Of
fered to fetch the Russian trade dele
gates here on British destroyer. It
denied Britain intended annexing the
Crimea.
The note denied Britain controlled
General Wrangel, the anti-bolshevik
leader in the Crimea, and said this
country could not be held responsible
for his recent offensive. 1t said the
soviet ultimatum with regard to
Wrangel's activities had been for.
warded to him.
The communication said it would
please this government II the bel
shevikf would accept these terms for
the London conference and If they
would Immediately begin observance
of the armistice with the Poles.
Before the note was sent, the 1tal-
ian ambassador called on Premier
Lloyd-George and gave it his ap'
proval.
The text of the note sent by the
allies from Boulogne, after the con-
ference there between Lloyd-George
and Premier Millerand, of France,
also was made public today. This
briefly and mildly drew attention to
the discrepancies in the soviet notes
bearing on the Polish participation in
the forthcoming peace conference,
and said such participation was es-
sential.
The essential object OF the confer.
ence should be re-establishment OF
peace in Europe and Russo-Polish
peace. it was stated. The conference
also should consider the signing of
peace treaties with states which bor-
der on Russia, after which it should
deal with matters in dispute between
the soviet and the allies, the ntie
said Then re-establishment of nor
NAL relations can be taken up.
A Warsaw dispatch said the Polish
cabinet conferred with the entente
mission and decided to act So there
would be no delay in the sending Of
allied assistance il the armistica
should fail to halt hostilities.
The Moscow wireless spreading
news of successes against the Poles
also carried message from Foreign
Minister Tchitcherin to the soviet
representative in Berlin, asking him
to assure the government that Russia
had no intention of conquering Ger
many.
The bolsheviki communique Of July
% said that southwest of Grodno we
drove back the enemy, who is fierce
ly resisting our energetic thrust
"In the Tarnopol sector we drove
the Polish right to the bank of the
Sereth. An enemy brigade staff, ZOO
prisoners and sixteen machine guns
were taken at Zbarazh. Fighting con-
tinues fiercely in the Crimean sec
tor"
To Eliminate Barrier.
IBy A. l. Bradford United Press
Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, July 3O.-Demands
which in effect would eliminate Pol
and as a barrier state between Russia
and Germany, will be presented by
soviet Russia as conditions to peace
with Poland, according to confidential
to the government today.
The soviet peace demands also will
facilitate an alliance between Ger
many and Russia, according to the
government reports.
These advices were looked on by
officials here as showing that Ger
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