The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-07-28
France Decides to
Sit at Peace Table
Will Discuss Recognition of
Soviet on Condition Russia
Comply With Allied Note.
LONDON PRESS OBJECTS
Accuses Lloyd George of Sur
rendering to Bolsheviki.
Germany Asks Voice.
lBY NEWTON d. PARkE.,


nhaily decided to participate In a pea,
barley at London to discuss recogn
toih OF the soviet government. but onl
on condition that Russia meets III
Terms or the new note which the allie
nave dispatched to Moscow The not
calls for active participation by til
allies In the conference.
The air important news that Franc
may take part in the proposed peac
conference was not made public |
Paris until after the return today c
Premier Millerand from Boulogne.
was concealed in the Boulogne dis
patches, printed in the morning news
rapers.
Instead of demanding that the sovie
government first acknowledge the Rus
sian national debt before a peace par
ley Is held at London, the French ap
parently are now willing that the Who'll,
situation, including guarantee of tn,
Russian debt. recognition of the sovie
government and other questions be dis.
cussed simultaneously.
France will insist. however, upon. re
serving liberty of action along with hei
allies in respect to recognition OF boil
shevils Russia
Another important result Of the Bou-
icgne conference is that France prob
ably will not insist that American
representation is necessary at the pro-
Officials of the French foreign Office
had previously stated that France
would not enter a general parey unless
the United States did likewise. The
indications now are that while France
viii insist upon theS Importance of
American representation she may enter
the conference even II the United
States keeps out.
say Soviet VIII Accept.
The French press halls the results OF
the Boulogne conference as victory for
Premier Millerand
The soviet government will du-
doubtedly accept the allies terms" pre-
d'cted the Journal This reflected the
general press opinion.
} a The allied high commissioner at Dan
sis has been ordered to take extreme
measures against the strikers holding
fco-ding to "Pertinax." the political ed
Z itor Of the Echo de Paris.
Germany Would Participate.
Berlin. July 27.-That Germany
should be represented in the proposed
conference between allied and soviet
opinion expressed to the reichstag to-
day by Dr. Walter Simons, German
foreign secretary.
81 am now curious 10 see" the sec
rotary declared, whether, in the ne
gotiations soon to begin on the eastern
question between the entente and So
Wet Russia, the entente again will
make the same mistake as at Yer
sailles, when II undertook to solve
there the eastern European question.
namely, that OF proceeding without Ger
many II that should happen. then
eastern peace will become a, house of
cards, much more unstable than the
peace OF Versailles ever can become.
Polish Troops Called.
Unconfirnned rumors were current
here today that a revolution has broken
out at Posen, in West Prussia. Strikes
and riots are said to be occurring; Ac-
cording to reports from Posen, Polish
troops have been called out to sup !
press the disorders Posen was for
merly German territory, but was
awarded to Poland by the peace con-
seize cities as Guarantee.
Paris, July 2S-The soviet govern
ment OF Russia announced In a wire
less dispatch today that bOlshevik
troops will occupy Bielostok and Su,
walki before an armistice Is concluded
with Poland as guarantee.
Bielostok is lis miles northeast OF
Warsaw, on the Warsaw-Vilna railway
Suwalki is seventy miles north OF BE
iostok and only ten miles from the
frontier of East Prussia:
Reds Sweep Into Gallcia.
Berlin, July 2S.-The Russian bolshe-
elk army Is sweeping into Galicia and
has captured the cities Of Brody ana
according to a soviet war
office communique wireless from MOSCOW
and picked up here today. The Rns-
slams announce the capture Of the
nineteen guns and many machine guns
Decision Not Endorsed.
London, July 2S.-The decision
reached by Premiers Milerand and
Lloyd George at their Poulogue confer
ence yesterday. to stand by the original
plan for a peace conference with the
Russian soviets and that the London
conference which the soviet demanded
could not take place unless the bolshe-
Wiki reversed their present attitude and
agreed to discuss at the conference Peace
with Poland with all qualified represen-
atives Of Russia and the border states
n attendance-receives no enthusiastic
Endorsement by the London press. By
he anti-bolshevik papers it Is round
Y denounced. one Of them saying 1t
will bril- nearer that diplomatic rec
ignition of the soviet government which
We especially detest and dread" ,
Premier Lloyd George, whom these
,apers regard as anxious to establish ,
Citations with the soviet, is sharply
as one of them puts II, FOR !
to the bolsheViki and q
reatinG by his policy 'ery serious :
ituation." ,
The London Times declares the mat 3, ,
eF Is 100 grave lot lITtNOCdDle ue- |
ision behind closed doors" and main :
aims that it must be subhl'tted to the
arliaments of the allies. The paper
with the French view that L
Imerica must have voice IL the dues- 7
ion, implying its belief thai America
rould repudiate an agreement based in "
OF the bolshevikl. 9
Poles In Full Retreat. o
Warsaw. July 2S-(A. P.-The Pol h
III retreat continues along the entire O
ront, according to the latest news on h
ne fighting operations received here h
Reports from bolshevik sources indi- n
ate that the bolshevki intend TO oc- n
my Suwalki. fifty miles northwest OF "
;rodno, and Bialystok, forty-th three N
files southwest Of Grodno, before the {
eginning OF the armistice negotiations =
II for Friday. The bolsheviki now are | q
'ithin ten niles OF Bialystok. ii