The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-06
POLES AND REDS
SIGN ARMISTICE
AT RIGA PARLEY
Fighting VIII Cease Friday. Is
Announcement at Warsaw.
Russian Forces Attempt to Stem
Tide of Polish Drive.
IS0VIETS ARE T0TTERIhG NOW
Sailors In Petrograd Lead New
Revolt Against Lenine.
"Retreat According to Plan,"
Says Moscow Report.
Fighting VIII Cease Friday, Is
Announcement at Warsaw.
Russian Forces Attempt to Stem
Tide of Polish Drive.
ARE TOTTERING NOW
Sailors In Petrograd Lead New
Revolt Against Lenine.
"Retreat According to Plan,"
Says Moscow Report.

Warsaw. Oct, 6.--Dispatches from
Riga say that hostilities between the
Poles and the Russian soviet forces
will cease Friday under an armistice
signed by the Polish aad soviet peace
delegates yesterday.
Paris, Oct. 6. DISPATCHES from
Warsaw. and Moscow today announced
that an armistice between soviet Rus
sia and Poland has been signed, ac-
cording to the Havas agency.
London, Oct. 6.-Russian troops
have stemmed the Polish advance in
many places and made important
gains themselves. a Moscow wireless
said today.
Eastward from the River Niemen,
1t was admitted. retreat continued 'ac-
cording to plan"
Our advance toward the River
slutch continues successfully" the
wireless said. In that region we oc-
cupied Leitcheff and Derhazany.
According to Plan.'
"In the region of Novogrodek and
eastward from the River Niemen we
continued to retreat according to plan.
Fighting continues northward near
Nyesvizh
Near Lanitetz, fierce fighting is
proceeding, with our troops advanc-
ing on Novogrosdek. volrynsk. Fight
ing continues for the possession of
Leitcheff and southward from
Derazhaya.
On the Wrangel front we have re-
captured Mariupol"
LitI,ns,nians Help Reds.
Riga, Oct. g.. The Russo Polish ar
1 M fCf tna srAG
TO a speedy conclusion but the Lithu-
anian Polish situation seems mean
while to have become more acute.
The Polish official statement re-
ceived today reports severe fighting
with attacking Lithuanian divisions
near Orany, about midway between
Gradno and Wilma, and adds:
1t is stated that Lithuanian troops
are fighting alongside Bolsheviki
1t was said this morning at the
headquarters of the Polish delegation
that M. Joffe. head of the Russian
mission, had accepted virtually as a
whole the Polish peace draft based on
the eleven points framed by the Riga
delegation and made public at the bee
ginning Of the Riga conference. These.
1t Is stated, have been approved at
Warsaw. but have not yet been formal
ly presented to the soviet delegation.
Rcd Sailors in Revolt.
Paris. Oct. 6.-Fourteen hundred
Russian sailors led a revolt in Petro-
grad September 2S, which resulted in
two days OF street fighting. according
to newspapers here today. The re-
ports said the insurrection w. crushed
by Chinese mercenaries and that fifty
four leaders of the mutiny were shot.
The sailors were Joined by muni-
tions factory workers, according to the
newspaper dispatches, and aided in
the manning Of eighteen naval guns
taken to PetroErad from Kronstadt
Four hundred sailors were said TO
have been killed and wounded in the
two days fighting.
The fighting was extensive. Both
sides employed barricades in the
streets. Shippers for both sides oper-
ated from the roofs of buildings.
Cross River Nicmcn.
Warsaw. Oct 6.-"Our advance
guard has crossed the River Nicmen
on the eastern front" the Polish COM
munique said today.
A Polish detachment has occupied
the entire line OF the Lida-Rovno rail-
way.
WrangcPs General F1ops.
London, Oct. 6.--Makno. the Uk-
rainian commander who has been op-
Grating under General Wrangei the
anti Bolsheviki leader in South Rus
sia, has Joined the Bolshcviki army
and has been given a command under
the soviet administration against
Wrangel. II is asserted In a wireless
diopa4rh from, Moscow today