Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07
BY ISAAC DON LEVINE
Especial Cable to the Chicago Daily News
Foreign Service, by Leased Wire to
The Atlanta Journal)
Copyright, 1920.)

Especial Cable to the Chicago Daily News
Foreign Service, by Leased Wire to
The Atlanta Journal)
Copyright, 1920.)
RIGA. Latvia. Oct. 6.--Last night
q peace pact was concluded between
Jan Dombski and Adolph Joffee
binding both sides to sign an agree
men for preliminary peace arms
tice between Poland and Soviet Rus
sia before October 8. It was a per-
sonal triumph for M. Domkski
whose moderate policy prevailed. In
the last few days Dombski and Joffe
have had a number of meetings as
individuals and these interviews
paved the way for an understanding
despite the serious difficulties en-
countered by the Polish envoy in his
own delegation.
Most of the foreign observers
here doubted the sincerity of NJ
Dombski's peace professions because
his record was not generally known.
It Is now permissible to disclose that
1 he was member of a secret COM
mission of five statesmen appointed
by the Polish government in Febru-
airy last to considere the soviet peace
proposals. NJ. Dombski then was the
only one among the five favoring the
acceptance of Foreign Commissar
Tchitcherin's offer for the conclusion
OF permanent peace with Russia.
When at the en- dof last week it ap-
peared clear that no results were
possible at the formal sessions M.
Dombski resolved not to let the con-
ference collapse but to seek confden-
tial interviews with M. Joffe.
So great was the factionaI strife
within the Polish delegation that
Stanislaw Grabski. when M. Domb-
ski went hunting last Sunday. intro
duced number of provoking pas
sages in the Polish reply to the
soviet peace proposal without Domb-
skis knowledge. M. Grabski, repre-
senting the militarist element, thus
sought to wreck the conference but
he only succeeded in provoking
Dombskf and fastening the latter's
understanding with NJ. Joffe.
The basis of this understanding
Is the minimum Polish line indicated
IN previous cable dispatches, name
~ the anoyitch-Luninetz railroad
Only six days ago NJ. Poffe in a pri-
yate conversation, assured me that
the soviet government would mot
make any such concession but ap-
parently personal contact accom-
pIshede what seemed unattainabIe
ut the formal meetings.
Yesterday morning when the soviet
ten-day ultimatum was about to ex-
pre- M Joffe announced to the Poles
that his mission was finished and
that, the conference would be ended
II no tangible proof of a Polish in
tention to conclude peace were not
given Immediately. The soviet dele
Gates actually began preparations to
depart from Riga. Confronted bv
this abrupt ultimarum. D. Dombski
took the decisive step on his own in
itiative, signing an unusual docu-
ment which declared that the chair
men Of. the Russian and Polish dele
cations. after arriving at an under
standing as to the basic princtnles
involved promised to sign within
the next three days an arno!stice pre-
lIrninary to peace 49,
M. Dom bski was enabled to do This
because of the heavy allied pressure
brought to bear on the Warsaw op-
position. This foreign influence, it
is claimed here. was responsible for
the victory won by the progressive
Dombski party and it makes possible
the rise of the progressive elements
In Pollard to permanent power.
RIVER NIEMEN CROSSED.
SAYS POLISH CONIMUNIOUE
WARSAW, Oct 6.-"Our advance
guard has crossed the river Niemen
on the eastern 'front.'" the Polish COM
nunique said today. "A Polesian de-
,,hchment has occupied the entire
ilne OF the Ida Rovno railway"
RUSSIANS HOLDING POLES,
SAYS MOSCOW REPORT
LONDON Oct. 6.-Russian troops
nave stemmed the Polish advance in
a many places and made important
gains themselves, Moscow wireless
said today.
Eastward from the river Niemen.
Il was admitted, the retreat continued
according to plan"
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