Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-27
PREM|ERS CONFER
TODAY ON SOVIET
PEACE PROPOSAL
~MiIIerand, With Foch, Goes to
Meet Lloyd George at
Boulogne.
FRANCE WILL DEMAND
VERY RIGID CONDITIONS
United States May Be Asked to
Participate in Conference Of
Nations, if Arranged.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, July 27-Premier Millerand,
accompanied by Marshal Foch, Fred
eric Francois Marsal. minister OF
finance, and Philippe Berthelot, polit-
ical director of the foreign office, left
at o'clock this morning for Bou-
logne, where he will discuss with
Premier Lloyd George the Russian
soviet proposal for conference be-
tween the allies and representatives
of the Russian soviet government
1t is reported that Premier Miller
and. sounded by the British govern
ment on the question, gave as prellm-
mary condi tionS to entering negotia-
tions with the Russians the acknowl-
edgment by the soviet of internation-
al engagements of former Russian
governments and confirmation of the
Russian people of the soviet's author
lty
The probability is also expressed
that NJ Millerand will refuse to agree
to the request in the Russian note for
the surrender of Gen. Wrangel, the
-bolshevist leader in southern
Russia Kussia' and that he will ask the
London conference. if it is held.
Involves Great Conference.
LONDON, July 27.-A feature of the
suggestion of George Tchitcherin, Rus
sian minister of foreign affairs, for
peace conference at London, which fixes
first attention here, is that it differs
widely from that proposed by Earl
Curzon's recent note from Spa The
present soviet proposal, instead of ac-
cepting discussion under the auspices of
the peace conference with Poland and
other states bordering on Russia, calls
for meeting with the leading entente
powers, which, in the view of COM
mentators here, involves something like
two-world congress, affecting the affairs
of the greater parts of Europe and Asia,
In which it is thought likely the United
States might find it desirable to take
d hand.
The bulk of opinion as expressed in
London's morning newspapers is not
particularly favorable to the soviet sug-
sestlon, although the possibility of good
Times describes NJ. Tchitcherin's COM
nunication as 'insolent in tone" as well
as 'tortuous and ambiguous in express
SION
Galician Town Taken.
LONDON. July 27.-Brady. an i'm
portant town of Galicia, fifty-eight
miles east-northeast of Lemberg, has
been occupied by the bolsheviki, ac-
cording to an official statement from
Moscow under Mondays date The
statement claims successes all along
the line.
Military Situation.
W ARSAW, July 20 (by the ASSo-
ciated PreSS) S).-There is considerable
activity along the entire front. par
ticularly to the north. North of Grod-
no the red cavalry crossed the Me
men into old Poland territory, fight
ing In the region of Grodno. The
roles apparently were pushed to the
south along the left bank of the Me
men.
The bolsheviki. at present, are hold
ing positions in the region of Polands S
demarcation as announced by the
council of ambassadors. .
The reds concentrated more than
one hundred thousand troops for
this drive, which was according to
military operations planned in mid
summer. after failure of the bolshe-
and Ckrainian successes at kiev.
On the front as held today the reds
threaten the railroad centers of Bic
lostok. between Grodno and Warsaw;
Brest-Litovsk, in the center. and to
the south Kovel and Lemberg, which
the Poles are determined not to give
up.
Armistice Arrangements.
VIENNA, July 26 fby the Asso-
cfated Press).-The soviet military
command has notified the Polish
commander that he regrets he is un-
able to arrange a date before July
80 for the preliminary armistice
meeting between the Polish repre-
sentatives and those of soviet Rus
sia. according to a wireless message
picked up here.
The armistice message states two
circumstances make an early day
impossible. The first is because the
Polish acts of barbarity have SO in
cenSed the population that serious
obstacles must be removed to pre-
pare the way for the Poles coming"
and. secondly, because an extensive
troop movement will be necessary.
It is stipulated, according to the
wireless message. that the Polish en-
voys must submit to all regulations
governing soviet camps, and con-
cludes with the hope that a place
will be fixed for the meeting in some
sector between Baranovitchi and
Brest-Litovsk.
Another Russian wireless message
quotes the official Moscow newspaper
Isvestia as saying:
Soviet Russia will know how to
secure for itself peace which will
make such a rapacious invasion as
Poland's forever impossible"
1t was learned in London Monday
that the peace conference between
the Russians and Poles would begin
at Baranovitchi on July 80, and that
the armistice would start the same
day.
Poles Leave BieIOstok.
WARSAW, July 26 (by the Asso-
ciated ress).-The Polish population
OF Bielostok is evacuating that city,
forty miles southwest of Grodno and
within the Polish line of dernarca-
tion, according to Americans who re-
turned from Bielostok to Warsaw
this afternoon.
Herschel Walker of Philadelphia. of
the American Relief Association, the
last American out of Bielostok, left
that city at IL o'clock Sunday night
after having supervised the removal
Of ninety cars of food Bielostok
normally has population of $4,000
and it is estimated that some $4,000
persons have left il in the face of the
soviet threat. The stores had been
looted in the search for provisions
and the remaining food was, solely
bread. which did not aggregate more
than $4,000 pounds.
The city has been full of Polish sol
diers for several days. Most of them
had been stranded fo~ lack of foot
after being called to the colors in
the new mobilization. and made theil
way to Bielostok in the hope of OBJ
tanning supplies.
When the Americans left the Polish
military still had hopes of retaining
the city and were prepared to make
a stand, but the soviet forces were
making constantly repeated attacks