The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-09-03
URGED TO FORM union.
POLISH PEACE COMMISSION
WAS RECALLED
Representatives Will Proceed to
Riga or Some Other Neutral ,
Point
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch. !

ASSOCIATED. Press Dispatch
Berlin, September DIR Walter
Simmons, the foreign minister, ad
dressing the reichstag foreign affairs
committee. today declared ne had
been urged to collaborate with the
Russian bolshevikf against the west
ern powers as a means of breaking
the bonds imposed by the treaty OF
Versailles, but that after mature re-
, nection he had rejected this course
Called to Warsaw.
warsaw, September 2.-The bolshe
or the Polish pace delegation re-
naming in Minsk have been recall
ed to Warsaw. They will leave Minsk
Friday and are expected here Satur-
day, joining the delegates already in
Warsaw. The Polish representatives
will then proceed to Riga or any
continuation of the Russo Polish
peace conference.
Prince Sapieha, the Polish foreign
minister, talking to American and
English newspaper correspondents
said that George Tchitcherin, the
soviet foreign minister, favors some
Esthonian town, probably Reval. The
Poles favor Riga, Letvia, Prince
Sapieha declared, but will not place
obstacles in. the way of the selection
OF place. satisfactory to the soviets
and will not endanger the conference
by insisting upon Riga. Warsaw dis
patches Of August 20 announced the
receipt of a Moscow wireless mes
sage accepting the Polish proposal
for transfer Of the peace negotiations
| from MinSk to Riga)
Gains of Poles.
Paris, September 1.-THE Poles
have occupied Seyny, in Lithuania
east of Suwalki, for stragegic rea-
sons, the foreign office announced
today. They also are advancing be-
yond Suwalki for the same reason, it
was added.
AnnihiIate Soviet Force.
Warsaw, September 1.-THE bolshe-
cavalry leader, was annihilated dur
ing the operations in the Lemberg
sector which began August 80, and
|efded September /, says the Polish
official statement OF military opera
tons issued today.
Isolated detachments of the Buden-
ny forces succeeding in retreating.
General Budenny's mounted men
had been endeavoring to break
through the Polish lines and march
upon Lublin. They had nearly com
pleted an encircling movement aglnst
Samosc, midway between Lublin and
Lemberg, but were outf1anked by the
Poles and attacked from the east,
the communication states. The en-
gagement resulted in defeat Of the
soviet forces along the entire center
OF the front, and the Russians were
compelled to retreat in disorder with
the Poles in close pursuit.
Many Men Lost.
! The bolsheviki lost heavily in kill
ed and wounded. adds the statement,
the Poles capturing thousands OF
prisoners, sixteen guns and enorm-
GUS quantities of material.
The fighting conferred in the
Zamosc region. The operations were
carried out in accordance with the
Polish battle plan which had led the
Russians into traps where they were
attacked from all sides:
Besides announcing the victory of
the Poles over Buddeny in the
Zamosc battle, the communication
reports successes along the entire
center ard southern fronts, where the
Russians were bested in the fighting.
Soviet To Retire.
The Russian soviet forces endeav-
oring to encircle Lemberg have re-
tired to the eastward under Polish
pressure, says the soviet official
statement of Wednesday today by
wireless. Some successes for the So
Wet troops are reported on the CEN
ter of the fighting front. The state
ment says:
an the Cholm region (forty miles
east Of Lublin) we crossed to 1.-THE
right bank OF the western Bug near
Opalin fifty miles east of Lublin) and
flung back the enemy to the left bank
of the river
"Tn the Vladimir -Volinski region,
after occupying Hrubieszow -(seventy
miles southeast of Lublin) and devel-
oping our advance, we occupied a
number of villages seven miles west
of Hrubieszow.
I'm the Sokal region (forty five
miles southeast Of Hrubieszow) fight
ing is proceeding in our favor. In
the Lemberg region, under enemy
ressure we retired somewhat to the
east of the sector north Of the Lem
berg Brody ailway. In the Bereslav
Oriekhov regions Tin the Crimea) we
are engaged with the enemy who Is
offering fierce resistance"
Poles Insist On Rights.
Warsaw, September 1.-Defnite
counter proposals by the Poles would
be first order of business when the
conference meets. Prince Sapieha
said no difficulty was expected on
territorial questions. He declared
the Poles would not agree to repara-
tons unless the question was arrang-
ed on mutual basis Of the damage
done by both sides, which Prince
Sapieha said virtually meant there
would be no reparations.
Disarmament was impossible for
the Poles to accept, the prince con-
tinusd, PeiaHd's attitude being that
that no foreign nation has the right
t ointsrfere, as it is Poland's own
business. Poland cannot allow tbs
national strength to be impaired by
a foreign nation he said, and Poland
will not give UP control of the rail-
road line demanded by the s0viets in
their fifteen naaca nninfs