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AUDACI0US TERMS
OFFERED BY REDS
Conditions Would Make roles slaves
To The SOVietS. Russians Protest
Delay. Red Delegates Claim Poles
Drag Negotiations.

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London August 2O.-The second
sitting of the Russo-Polish peace con
ference at Minsk took place Thurs
day and a summary OF RUSSIA
| terms was communicated to the
Poles. They were substantially the
same as those the Russian delegation
published in London, says a MOSCOW
| official statement dated Thursday
and received in London this morning.
! Stated orders for the conference
We're greed upon. Toward the end
of the session the Russian delegates
| protested against the Poles efforts
t. drag the negotiations, the state
rent says.
The terms submitted by M. DAM
| shevsky head of the Bolshevik dele
gates at Minsk. at Thursdays session
of the Russo-POlish peace confer
ence, are given in a dispatch from Nj.
| Tchitcherin, Bolshevik foreign mini
ster, which was ISSUED by the Rus
| sian delegation in London tonight.
Article l announces that Russian
and Ukraine recognize in full the in
dependence and liberty of the Polish
republic and soIemnly confirm the
full right of the Polish people to es-
tablish its own form of government.
In Article 2, Russia and Ukraine
renounce any form of contribution.
Article 5, gives the frontier of Po-
land in accordance with the note OF
Earl CurZon British foreign Secre-
tary) with more territory east OF
Bialystok and Cholm.
Article 4, stipulates that the Polish
army be reduced to $4,000 men, to be
supplemented by civic militia, made
up of workers. organized 10 preserve
order and the populations security.
Article 5 6, 7 and 8, deal with de-
mobilization of the military and in
dustries and the prohibition on I'M
portationS of war materials.
Article 9, says hostilltles Will
| cease ~ hours after the signature
of these terms, the armies remaining
on the line occupied but not east OF
the line indicated in Earl Curzon's
note of July IL. The Polish army
will retire so versts (33 1-3 miles,
west of the Russian and Ukrainian
army, and the intermediate zone will
De declared neutral with Polish ad-
ministratiOn under control of mixed
commissions and special commissions
constituted by the trade unions.
Article 10 says that simultaneous
lv with the disqualification of the Po-
fish army and the turning over to
arms, Russia and Ukrainian troops
will retire so that at the termination
of Polish mobilization only 70 ,0GO
me will remain near the neutral
zone.
Article II deals with Polish re
| stitution to regions formerly occup--
ed of railway. agricultural material
| taken away by the Polish Army, and
| the reconstruction of bridges by the
| Poles.
Article u declares Poland must es-
/ tablisn by law distribution OF land
| grants, in the first place to famllles
10 Polish citizens killed, wounded OF
| disabled in the war.
Under article 10 Poland would
give Russia the right TO free transit
| for men and goods through her ter
| ritory with the enthusiastically
stok-Grajevo Railway remaining IN
| full possession and control OF me
| Russian republic.
Article ii says Poland must grant
complete political and military am
| nesty.
Article Is provides that Poland
| must publish the treaty and proto-
coils Immediately the treaty is signed.