Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-10-14
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CURRENT EVENTS
Russian Reds, Whipped in the
Field, Agree to Armistice
With the Poles.
SUBMIT TO ALL DEMANDS
Soviet Forces May Concentrate Against
Wrangel-Peace in Ireland Nearer
Some Late Developments in
Our Presidential Campaign.
BY EDWARD w. PlcKARD,

Thoroughly whipped by the Poles.
the Russian BolShcNilli have signed an
armistice with thcii opponents, and on
October IA hostilities are supposed to
cease. The full terms agreed upon at
Riga have not yei been given to the
public, but enougl has been told to
show that Poland has won virtually
all her contentious. NJ. .!otfe head of
the Russian delegation. was in no po-
sitiOn to refuse anything within rea-
son, and indeed he had been instruct
ed to accept almost any terms the
Poles might offer.
The western boundary line of soviet
Russia was the main matter under
discussion, and this was settled entire
ly in favor of the Poles, according to
reports from Riga. The line is placed
so far east that Lithuania is cut off en-
tirely from Russia, and Poland is
given corridor between those two
countries. The boundary agreed upon
begins east of Dvinsk. runs sonth
through Baranovitchi. Luninicts and
Sarny and virtually along the German
line of 1915 to the Roumanian frontier.
The Poles have asserted repeatedly
that the Lithuanians have ,bcen fight
ing alongside the Russians, md this
boundary settlement should, therefore,
go far in bringing about peaceful
agreement between Poland and Lithu-
anfa; when that is accomplished the
Poles will be free to turn their atten-
tiOn to the establishment of their own
government and the development of
their country. They have agreed to be
neutral in the Ukraine where the So
Wet and Petlura forces are fighting,
and Russia gives up all claims to east
ern Galicia.
1t is asserted by some correspond
ents that Dombski, head of the Polish
| mission at Riga, was moved TO hurry
up the agreement with the Russians
by the admonitions of the British am
bassador in Warsaw and also by the
movements Of his political opponent.
Prince Sapieha. In addition. say these
correspondents. the liberal DombsSi
element in Poland. is somewhat
alarmed by the successes of Baron
Wrangel in southern Russia consider
| ing that the restoration of tie old
Russian empire would constitute a
| great danger to Poland. Many experts
believe that Russo-Polish peace will
result in fhe crushing of Wrangel and
his armies. 1t is taken for granted
/ n y,,1l
once concentrate its efforts on the
| Crimean front.
However, Wrangel has been making
such progress in his campaign that his
chances still seem good In his ad-
vance northward he has taken many
thousands of prisoners and vast guam
titles of material, and his forces also
| pushed along the coast of the Sea of
| Azov northeastward toward important
cities on the lower Don. Early in the
week 1t was said that Makno, the
Ukraine insurgent leader, had formed
Junction with Wrangel's troops and
In a flying raid had seized Kharliov
Later wireless dispatch from Mos
COW asserted that MalSno had Joined
the Bolsheviki and had been given a
command against Wrangel. 1t was
said his shift was due to the refusal
Of his troops to fight against the Boil
sheviki. Makno's past history inclines
one to doubt the truth of this report
According to a Copenhagen newspa.
per, General Weygand, who assisted
the Poles, has gone to South Russia
to take supreme command of the anti
soviet armies there.
The apparent collapse of the Bolshe-
,vfki Is probably due in large measure