Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-03
Danishevasky Succeeded by
Abramowitz When Soviet
Accepts Riga Plan.
LITHUANIA ON VERGE
OF WAR WITH POLAND
Negotiations Broken Of Following
Frontier Clash, Says a
Kovno Dispatch.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WARSAW, September 3.-M. Dani-
shevsky has resigned as head Of the
Russian bolshevik delegation to ne
gotiate an armistice agreement and a
peace treaty with Poland, and, has
been replaced by Adolph Abramowicz
Joffe, former soviet ambassador to
Germany and chairman OF the Rus
sian peace delegation at Brest-Li-
tovsk. according to Moscow advices
received here. M. Danishevsky re-
signed because the soviet government
agreed to carry on further negotia-
tions with Poland at Riga The per-
sonnel OF the new soviet delegation is
not at present known. but will be
communicated to Polish government
officials later.
Prince Sapieha. Polish foreign min
lister, received wireless message
from George Tchitcherin. bolshevik
minister of foreign affairs, stating
that the essential condition as to the
Riga conference was guarantee of
the immunity of the Russian and
Ukrainian delegates. the right to free
and uninterrupted communication in
code by telegraph and wireless and
by courier carrying diplomatic sealed
pouches. Upon receiving such guar
antees. NJ. Tchitcherin said, the soviet
delegation will leave for Riga, with
full power to agree to an armistice
preliminary to peace and to nego-
tiate final peace treaty.
Pole Army Advances.
Prince Sapieha has wired the Polish
minister in Riga to obtain the de-
manded guarantee from tho Letvian
government and to communicate the
result direct to the bolshevik min
lister in that city.
1fey.
Of Suwalki. nineteen miles north Of
Augustowo. and have been given an
enthuiastic welcome. according to an
official statement issued here today.
Gen. Budenny. the Russian boil
sheyik commander. who has been at
tempting to break the Polish lines in
Galtcia, and who has suffered what
appears to be a decisive defeat, is
rapidly retreating. it ts said. Along
the line from Soko1ka ito Bfest-,
Lftovsk, on the northeastern Polish
front. the situation. IN quiet. :-ss 2
sBEillient service by ayiakssesQanenN
whom are many Americana. IL 9spE :
ciaIiy mentioned in the statement.
London Hears Reds Progress.
LONDON. September 3.-Ruasian
bolshevik forces have occupied .
number Of villages from fourteen I'd
twenty-seven miles north OF Brest !.
Lttovek. according to an Official state ;
ment issued in Moscow yesterday and
received here by wireless. Farther
south soviet forces have -advauced up
to the town of Brest-Litovsk, the
statement says. a ~ y.
The bolsheviki occupied zamosc
forty-flve miles southeast OF Duplin.
on August 20, and in the Lemburg re-
gion are said to be holding up at.
tacks by the Poles. who 1t is admit-
Of ia r.
the neighborhood OF Buczacz. eastern
Galicia. the bolsheviki have flung
Polish troops back to the right bank
OF the Dniester river, the statement
says
Fighting Is proceeding with alter
mating success and with some severity
In the Crfmean sector.
Lithuania On Verge OF War.
BERLIN. September 3.-Lithuania
Will defend herself with all means at
her disposal against invasion by Po.
ltsh troops. and will prevent any fur
ther violations Of her territory. saws
q Rovno dispatch. =.
A statement has been issued by the
Lithuanian foreign minister, who de-
clares: The Polish government has
issued instructions for military occu-
having deceived Lithuanian officials
intentions. -
"Bloodshed can be avoided only IL
the Poles withdraw" the foreign min
lister is quoted as declaring. They
must await the fixing Of temporary
line of demarcation which must be
decided upon in agreement with the
Lithuanian government"
Negotiations Broken on.
Negotiations between the Poles and
TithuanianS over the hound q ~ ha
tween the two countries have been
broken OF, according to a statement
made here today by the Lithuanian
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