Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-08-06
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Current EVENTS
BoISheviki Must Accept Miller
and's Terms if They Want to
Negotiate Peace.
LUDEADORFF Offers ARMY
viii Provide a Million Germans to
Fight Russia, on Conditions
Armistce for PoIand-ViIla
Surrenders, Cantu Rebels,
in Mexico.
BY EDWARD w. PIckARD.

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 bolsheviki and went to Bou-
logne to tell Premier Millerand all
about it 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
il 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 Nthe meeting. Another condi-
ton is that Baron General Wrangle
shall not be delivered up to the bolshe-
Wiki.
Millerand's first consideration is the
safety of Poland, which he insists
must be constituted a 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
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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 as it 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
it is to come remain undecided.
Neither Great Britain nor Italy is in
a 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 daffaiEes 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 thf
treaty of Versailles be annulled, among
them those dealing with Danzig. Thi!
would be a bitter pill for the allie!
to swallow, but it is in effect the pre-
scription also of Winston Churchill
the British war minister, who assert
that Germany alone can stop the for
ward march of bolshevism, and tina
to permit her to do so would aid he
to recover speedily her place amoni
the nations. Such a recovery proba
big is desired by those who would prof
it financially thereby, but not man,
others are deeply concerned in it.
Friday saw the beginning of tn
armistice between the Poles and tn
soviet Russians and the start of ne
gotiations for peace in the town o
Baranovitchi. Fighting was suppose
to cease at that time, but it was cor
tinued up to the last minute, the bo
sheviki capturing BialystOk and fore
ing the Poles steadily back towar
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