New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
Russia Asks
An Arnistice
With Japanese
Dispatch From Irkutsk
Tells of Proposal That
the Fighting in Eastern
Siberia Be Terminated
Poles Repel Attack 8
SOviets Decree Martial Law
in Central and North
Provinces and Archangel

VLADIVOSTOK,, May 15.-The Rus
sian Soviet government has proposed
an armistice between the japanese and
Siberians, according to a dispatch from
Irkutsk.
WARSAW, May Is (By The Associ-
ted Press THE rout of the 10th Boil
shevik Division in a battle in the
region of the mouth Of the Beresina
River is reported in an official COM
munique issued yesterday. In attempt
ing to escape across the Dnieper the
remnants of the division were killed
or captured. Of these remnants some
400 were drowned while endeavoring
to reach the other side of the stream
The fighting lasted two days. The
Poles also captured four Bolshevik
monitors on the Dniepcr.
Bolshevik Attacks Repulsed
Fighting for the brdgehead contin-
ties. The communicate announces tha-
the Bolsheviki have been ordered to
retake the ground east Of the Dnieper
at any price, but that all Bolshevik at
tacks have been repulsed
Much anxiety is felt in Kiev regard
ing sixty-seven hostages, mostly Poles,
taken by the Bolsheviki during the
evacuation of the city and eight or ten
hostages picked up by the Bolsheviki
since. The hostages were taken across
the Dnieper by the Bolsheviki in the
retreat from Kiev.
1t develops That Prince Stanislas
Radziwill, personal adjutant to Cen
eral Pllsudski, who was reported killed
by a she'll from an armored train dur
ing Bolshevik counter attack early
last week in an attempt to take Malin,
was taken prisoner by Cossacks after
he was W unded. Prince Radziwill was
taken to the home of a peasant and
later killed by the Bolsheviki His
body was recovered after the Malin bat
tletield had been cleared of the Boil
sheviki. Peasants related the story of
his death.
MOSCOW. May 10 (By The Asso-
ciated Press "A decree issued by the
Central Executive Committee, dated
Tuesday, proclaims martial law in the
provinces of Central and Northern
Russia and Archangel.
The provincial executive committees
are given full power to protect rail-
ways, military supplies, magazines and
depots and to control telegraphic and
telephone communication
twenty-four-hour work day in the
administrative Offices is decreed and
means are to be taken to stimulate the
production Of war material.
Until the abolition of martial law
the executive committees are given the
same powers as military tribunals to
secure the carrying out of this pro-
gram, including punishment for dis
obedience. The decree is signed by
Kalinin and Lenine.
Production Is Retarded
The inevitable interruption of the
development of eace-time industries
| through concentration upon the effort
to produce war materiel, it is pointed
out here, will tend indefinitely to post
pone the execution of plans for the re-
sumption of importations and exporta-
tions on large scale
The Polish offensive tends to arrest
the revolutionary process of recon
struction by restoring to the military
authorities the powers recently vested
in the civil authorities. 1t is expected
the effect will be consolidation of
parties through the wave of national
feeling.