The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1920-08-05
BoIsheviki Must Accept Miller
and's Terms if They Want to
Negotiate Peace.
LUDENOORfF OFFERS ARMY
viii Provide a Million Germans to
Fight Russia, on Conditions
Armistice for Poland-ViIIa
Surrenders, Cantu Rebels,
In Mexico.
BY EDWARD w. PickARD.

Inc dove OF peace is being treated
roughly In Europe. Every time one
nation puts up nice perch for her
to alight upon, some other nation
Shoes her away. insisting that she
must sit on its perch or stay up in the
air.
Premier Lloyd George thought he
had found the way of peace with the
Russian bolsheviki and went to Bou-
logne TO tell Premier Millerand all
about II and to get his Endorsement.
But Mlllerand had his own ideas. and
the result was that the little Welsh
man hurried home, virtually admitting
that the Frenchman's plans must pre-
vail. Briefly, Millerand declares that
II the London conference proposed by
the soviet government is held, peace
with Poland must be the first subject
discussed, and that representatives of
Poland and all other states bordering
on Russia must be invited TO partici-
pate In the meeting. Another condi-
ton Is that Baron General Wrangle
shall not be delivered up to the bolshe-
Wiki.
Mlllerand's first consideration is the
safety of Poland, which he insists
must be constituted a buffer state to
keep bolshevism out Of Germany. He
did not need even TO mention the claim
for recognition of the Russian debt
to France. for the discussion did not
get that far. He refused to sign the
note to Moscow stating the conditions
of the conference. So Lloyd George
returned to London. pretended he
was quite satisfied with the situation,
and said the note would be forwarded
to Russia as soon as 1t had been ap-
proved by Italy.
Meanwhile Poland is being over
whelmed, and II she Is to be aided. the
form OF aid and the source from which
II is to come remain undecided.
Neither Great Britain nor Italy is in
a position politically to send troops,
and Germany will not permit the al
lies TO transport munitions of war
through her territory nor to turn over
TO Poland the arms and ammunition
she surrendered 10 her conquerors In
this Germany rests on the terms OF
the peace treaty. France alone could
send an army to the rescue of the
Poles, and this she may do.
One other alternative is offered
General LudendOrff, the former Ger
man war chief, is said 10 have told
the British charge d'affaires mt Berlin
that he viii raise an army Of 100000
men 10 fight the bOlsheviki II the al
lies will consent. But his conditions
are that Posen be returned TO Ger
many and that certain clauses OF the
treaty of Versailles be annulled, among
them those dealing with Danzlg. This
would be a bitter pill for the allies
to swallow, but II is I'm effect the pre-
scription also of Winston Churchill,
the British war minister, who asserts
that Germany alone can stop the for
ward march Of bolshevism, and that
to permit her 10 do so would aid her
10 recover speedily her place among
the nations. Such a recovery proba- !
bly, is desired by those who would prof |
IL financially thereby. but not many |
others are deeply concerned in II.
Friday saw the beginning OF the |
armistice between the Poles and the
soviet Russians and the start OF ne
gotiations for peace I'm the town OF |
Fighting was supposed
to cease at that time, but IL was con-
tinued up TO the last minute. the boil
sheviki capturing Bialystok and fore
Ing the Poles steadily back toward
Warsaw. The Lithuanlans restricted