Evening star., 1920-02-26
PEACE WITH SOVIET
|S0FFERED TOU.S.,
MOSCOW REPORTS
Tenders to Japan and Ru-
mania Also Made-JeWish
Massacre Is Reported.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 26.-The soviet
commissary of foreign affairs has dis
patched notes to the United States.
Japan and Rumania. Offering them
peace with soviet Russia. according to
wireless dispatch from Moscow re-
ceived here today
White Army Wiped Out.
LONDON. February pa Moscow
wireless dispatch says Gen. Tolstoy' s
army. defeated at Guriev. in the gov
ernment of Uralsk. southeast Russia.
has fed to the Caspian sea. retreatine
under terrible conditions. The dispatch
adds that thousand of the men lay
down to die in the waterless steppes
with horses and camels, and that moth
ing remains of the white army.
Another bolshevik communication
says lighting is proceeding for the
possession of the town of kerekop,
and that in the region of Eovocher-
lsaSsk the bolshevik troops have cap
in the Starvropol region the bolshevik
have driven the anti-bolshevik from
the village of exandroves.
massacre Of Jews Reported.
PARIS. February :5. - Southern
Russia was the theater of a fresh out
break against the Jews during the re
treat of Gen. Denikine's army. accord
ing to advices received by the com
mittee of Jewish delegations here
Massacres are reported to have taker
place at Begopol, Gotta, Golovanevsk
Oiiviopol. Kodima and other points
including krivoie-OZero, where eot
Jews are reported to have been put tc
death. More than fifty victims were
counted at Golovanevsk, it is declared
Panic reigns among the entire Jew
ish population in the region Of
Odessa. according to these reports
The massacres the advices state. con.
tinued for five days at Bogopol. Golts
and Oliviopol. the entire population
being obliged to fee toward Odessa to
escape death.
Polish stand Revealed.
WARSAW, February Pa note is
sued by the diets foreign affairs com
mittee says:
Poland has not rejected the soviet
proposals to enter into peace negotia
tions. Poland has not waged wal
with an aggressive aim, but largely
in order to protect the most vital in
terests of Poland as a state and ma
tion. Poland in answering the soviet
will indicate the principles upon
which Poland will be ready to ente,
into negotiations which. if accepted
WOuld secure the POllSn eastern IRON
tier and Poland's international posi-.
ton
Poland must demand definitely the
annihilation of the efforts for Poland
partition, and insist that the historica
injustice which hinders the establish.
ment Of good neighborly relations be
tween Poland and Russia should b.
rectif1ed. The delimitation between
the two states would be based pre-
eminently upon the will and interests
of the populations concerned. This
was the attitude of the Polish diet
previously.
Demand for Plebiscites.
"The republic has decided adequate
ly to stand for the determination OF
the eastern frontier with the consen,
of the local population. and Poland
has every right. and it is Poland's
duty. to demand that the inhabitants
beyond the present battle line be al
lowed piebiscites. This concerns the
territory wrested from Poland. The
Polish government has decided to
consult the allied powers and inter
ested states and base its answer to
the soviet's peace proposal thereupon
I'm order to bring about a lasting
peace with Russia. Poland must de-
mand that the peace conditions. if
agreed upon. must be ratified by rep
resentatives of the Russian nation"