Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-08-20
NEWS review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
France Acts Independently of
Great Britain in the Russo
Polish Complication.
PROMISES AID TO WRANGEL
America to Use "AIl Available Means"
to Preserve Poland's independence
Resistance to Red Armies In
reasing-Express Workers
Get Wage Increase.
By EDWARD w. PIcKARD.

The United States will employ "all
available means" to safeguard the in
dependence and territorial integrity of
Poland, and will not recognize the
soviet government of Russia.
The French government has recog-
nized the Wrangel government of
southern Russia and will give it mill
tary aid against the bolsheviki; and
the French representatives in London
have been instructed to break off all
relations with Krassin and Kameneff.
the soviet trade commissioners there.
The British government, though
somewhat dismayed by the American
and French announcements and the
apparent break with France, still
hopes and believes a peace can be ne
gotiated between Russia and Poland.
The Russians, persisting in their re-
fusal to permit mediation by any third
party, sent a delegation to Minsk to
meet the Poles, and continued their
circling increment designed to cap
ture Warsaw.
The Poles sent representatives to
Minsk to talk armistice, and, having
withdrawn in good order from their
advanced positions, established two
lines of defense before Warsaw and
prepared for an extensive counter
stroke.
In the lineup of the powers, Italy
stands with Great Britain, and France
counts on the support Of the United
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sible neutrality while hoping for the
crushing of Poland, believing the
Polish adventure was instigated and
directed by France.
Such is the summary of conditions,
on the day of writing. in the biggest
of the wars that are still going on.
President Wilson's statement of
Americas position was made to Italy.
In it he suggested that the conflict
might be ended by the withdrawal of
all Russian forces from Poland and
the withdrawal of all allied troops
from ethnographic Russia, together
with assurances by the allied and as
sociated powers that Russia will not
be dismenbered. He urged that any
| dealings with the soviet regime be con-
| fined within "the most narrow boun-
daries to which the discussion of an
armistice can be confined" and scored
the soviet government as that of a
tyrannical and dishonorable minority
whose assurances and guarantees are
| practically worthless. In asking that
the true boundaries of Russia be re-
spected, the note specified that those
boundaries should not include Fin
! land, ethnic Poland or such territory
as may by agreement form a part OF
the Armenian state. Just what the
president meant by "all available
means" in promising aid to Poland
was not made clear, but it was as
sumed, both by government officials
and by the representatives of POLAND
in Washington, that the phrase die
not include the dispatch of troops
Prince Lubomirski. the Polish minis
ter, did not ask for armed assistance
but said the need of his countrymer
was for food. clothing, arms and othel
war munitions. These, he added, are
needed Immediately and imperatively
A conference of the British an(
French premiers was held at Hyth,
and, returning to London, LloyC
George told the house of commons
that he still believed in peace. Fl,
said Russia was entitled to stric