The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-25
POLAND TURNS
DOWN RUSSIAN
PEACE TERMS
Both Must Demobilize, Says
Her Answer; All 9th er
Terms Indignantly Rejected
Russ Make Demands.
FRANCE, U. ST. AGREE
fBy Associated Fress)

rupture of the Russo-Polish peace ne
gotiations at Minsk will result if the
Poles adhere to their demand for the
withdrawal Of the main Russian terms,
says a message received here from
George T. Chitcherin, the Russian
Soviet foreign minister, dated Monday
at Moscow.
Poland's reply to the peace terms
presented by the Russian Soviet dele
cation at Minsk amounts to a flat re-
lection, says the Manchester Guard
ian's Minsk correspondent in a wire
less dispatch filed in that city Mon
day.
Out of the Is Russian demands,
only one, that relative to demobili-
zation, is accepted, and that only on
condition that Russia will take
similar course-that is to say-Rus-
sia must demobilize at the same time
Poland disbands her forces.
Rejects Terms Indignantly.
"The terms relative to disarmament,
the closing of munition plants and the
delivery of munitions to Russia by
Poland, are Indignantly rejected.
"Bolshevik terms relative to Pol
ish workers militia and control by
the Russians of the railway line FROM
yond discussion. The boundary line
between Poland and Russia, as laid
down by Lord Curzon, British secre
tary Of state for foreign affairs, is de-
clared unacceptable, as it involves a
third partition of Poland.
Demands for distribution of land to
Polish victims of war and the return
of cattle and horses driven away by
Polish land owners from White Ruthe-
MIA and Lithuania are rejected as in-
terfering with the internal affairs o.
Poland, and a violation of Polish SOW
erignty.
"Without Qualifications"
"Other terms are rejected without
qualification, and Poland demands a
line of demarcation between Polish
and Russian territory based on STRAIT
egic considerations and the idea OF
buffer states"
WARSAW, Aug. 24.-Polish victor
les over soviet armies which invaded
Poland apparently have not affected
the Bolsheviki delegates at the peace
conference being held at Minsk.
A wireless dispatch received from
Minsk today by Foreign Minister Sa-
pieha asserted: THE Bolsheviki at
today's meeting continued to retain
their sureness Of manner.
This was the fifth message sent by
the Polish delegation at Minsk, but
one of them has not yet arrived.
The message received today de-
clared, according to the foreign office
announcement, that M. Danishevsky,
chief Of the soviet delegation, In his
provisional reply to the Polish repre-,
sentatives' declarations, said, among
other things, The Polish front is
guarded by France as part of the
general front against soviet Russia. y
"Cannot Abandon Terms"
Soviet Russia" he is quoted as
adding, cannot abandon its point OF
view upon the question of Polish dis
armament until Poland proves she Is
acting as a sovereign state"
Regarding the position taken by the
Bolsheviki, the message stated the
Poles had maintained their attitude
and that at the next meeting the de
tailed Russian reply would be re
ceived.
"We shall send the minutes Of the
meeting" it continued. "a courier
from Warsaw has passed the lines
and has boarded a railway train fol
this city"
The foreign office announcement
said the soviet delegates are continu
ing to put difficulties in the way o
! Polish communications with Warsaw
| The third wireless message sent tc
f.. this city from Minsk is missing.
PARIS. Aug. 25-The French for
eign office announced today that the
| French government was entire accort
with the American government, tha
| the Polish armies should remain with
! in Polands ethnographic frontiers
| 1t was added that the definite ethno
! graphic frontiers were not yet deter
mined.
1t was pointed out by the foreign
office that the Polish boundary linz
laid down by the peace conference wa
provisional minimum to be replaced
| later by Polish-Russian agreement anc
| that therefore the minimum Polisl
! line has a certain fleXibility.
Negotiations looking to surrende
to the Poles have been begun by tn
Northern Russian Bolshevik army, ac
cording to a Vienna despatch received
here. Latest information from Wal
saw indicates the advance of the Po
sh armies continues rapidly and Iha
the Bolshevik seem anxious only t
lose contact with the Poles. The mum
ber OF prisoners captured by the Pole
is said to approximate 10000.
BRUSSELS. Aug. "a Resolution
declaring the independence Of Polan
essential to European peace and tina
maintaining it would be the duty Q
international labor were passed uT
animously by the general council c
the Socialist party here today. Th
resolutions approved the action of tn
Belgian labor syndicate and the ICON
mittee action of British labor COZ
corning the transport of war materia
| ROME, Aug. 25-A manifesto decla
ing that the Italian Socialist part
favors recognition Of Soviet Russia an
announcing great demonstrate
Aug. 29 to protest against the "r'
dictionary attitude Of France, the IL
stability Of England and the duplicit