The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-08-13
BoIsheviki Must Accept Miller.
anfs Terms if They Want to
Negotiate Peace.
LUDENOORFF OFFERS ARMY
VIII Provide Million Germans to
Fight Russia, on Conditions
Armistice for Poland-viIIa
surrenders, cantu Rebels,
in Mexico,
BY EDWARD W. PickARp.

The dove of peace is being treated
roughly in Europe. Every time one
nation puts up 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 Milerand 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. Mllerand declares that
1t 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 the meeting. Another condI-
ton is that Baron General Wrangle
shall not be delivered up to the bOlshe-
Wiki.
Millerands first consideration Is the
safety of Poland. which he insists
must be constituted 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
note to Moscow stating the conditions
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 APP
proved by Italy.
whelmed, and If she is TO be aided. the
form Of aid and the source from which
II Is to come remain undecided
Neither Great Britain nor Italy is In
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 d'affaires at Berlin
that he viii raise an army of 100000
men Ia fight the bolsheviki II the al
lies will consent. But his conditions
are that Posen be retu ned TO Ger
many and that certain clauses Of the
treaty of Versailles be annulied. among
them those dealing with Danzig. This
would be bitter pill for the allies
TO swallow, but ii is In effect the pre-
scription also of Winston Churchill,
the British war minister. who asserts
that Germany alone can stop the for
ward march Of boishevism, and that
TO hermit her 10 do so would ard her
10 recover speedily her place among
he nations Such recovery proba-
Div is desired nv those who would PROF
il financially thereby. but not many
others are deeply concerned In It.
Friday saw the beginning or the
,rmjstice between the Poles and the |
soviet Russians and the start OF ne
-otiations for neaee In the town OF
Fighting was supposed
, cease at that time. but II was con-
inued up to the last minute, the Dol
i,4yikt capturing BialystOk and fore
ng the Foies steadily back toward
Warsaw. Thu Lthuanians restricted