Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-08-06
NEWS REVIEW Of
CURRENT EVENTS
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-Villa
Surrenders, Cantu Rebels,
in Mexico.
BY EDWARD W. PlCkARD.

The dove of peace Is being treated
roughly in Europe. Every time one
nation puts up a 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 bolshevlki and went to Bou-
logne to tell Premier Mllerand all
about 1t and to get his Endorsement.
But Millerand 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
If 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 condl-
ton is that Baron General Wrangle
shall not be delivered up to the boshe-
wiki.
Millerand's first consideration is the
safety of Poland, which he insists
must be constituted 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 rs 1t had been ap.
proved by Italy.
Meanwhile Poland Is being over
whelmed, and If she Is to be aided, the
form Of aid and the source from which
1t is to come remain undecided.
Neither Great Britain nor Italy is In
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 to 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 to have told
the British charge daffaires at Berlin
that he will raise an army of 100000
men to fight the bolsheviki If 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 bitter pill for the allies
to swallow, but 1t is In effect the pre-
scriptlon also of Winston Churchill,
the British war minister, who asserts
that Germany alone can stop the for
ward march of bolshevlsm, and that
to permit her to do so would aid her
to recover speedily her place among
the nations. Such recovery proba-
bly, is desired by those who would prof
1t financially thereby but not many
others are deeply concerned In It.
, Friday saw the beginning Of the
between the Poles and the
soviet Russians and the start Of ne
gotiatlons for peace in the town of
Fighting was supposed
to cease at that time, but 1t was con-
tinued up to the last minute, the boil
sheviki capturing Bialystok and fore
Ing the Poles steadily back toward
Warsaw. The Lithuanians restricted