The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-09-09

Promise TO Send Delegates to
the Riga Meeting.
DELEGATION HEAD RESIGNS
M. Danshevsky Quits When Moscow
Government Consents to Garry on
Further Negotiations With Po-
Iand-Balfour Sends Reply.


has resigned as head of the Russian
delegation to negotiate an armistct
program and a peace treaty with 70
land and has been replaced by Adolpn
AbramowOicz Joffre, former soviet
ambassador TO Germany, and chair
man of the Russian peace delegati,
at Rrest-Litovsk, according to Moscow
! adviCes received here.
NJ. Danishevsky resigned because
the soviet government agreed 10 carry
on further negotiations with Poland
at Riga. The personnel of the new
soviet delegation is not at present
known, bu. will be communicated to
Polish government officials later.
Reds Demand Guarantees.
Prince Sapieha, Polish foreign min
| lister, received a wireless message
from George Tchitcherin, bOlshevik
minister of foreign affairs, stating
that the essential condition as to the
Riga conference was a guarantee of
! the immunity of the RuShan and
| Ukrainian delegates, the right to free
and uninterrupted communication in
code by telegraph and wireless and by
courier carrying diplomatic sealed
| pouches.
Upon receiving such guarantee, NJ.
| Tchtcherin said, the soviet delega-
ton will leave for Riga with full
power 10 agree to an armistice pre-
liminary to peace and to negotiate a
final peace treaty.
Prince Sapieha has wired the Polish
minister in Riga to obtain the de-
manded guarantee from the Letvian
government and TO communicate the
result direct to the bOlsheviki minis
ter In that city.
BaIfour Replies to Reds.
London. Sept. Arthur J. BalfOur,
| lord president of the council, has re-
piled to the dispatch of NJ. Tchtcher-
| in Russian bolshevik minister. sent
on August 90
Mr.. Balfour expresses qualification
that the soviet government renounces
| It's demands for a workers militia, hut
declares that NJ. Tchitcherin is mis-
taken in Supposing that the British
government recognized that reduc-
ton of the Polish army TO $4,000 men
would be just peace terms.
What the British government said,
| Mr.. Balfour declared, was that Great
! Britain would not consider IL suffi-
cent ground for active intervention.
Mr.. Balfour characteriZeS Tchit-
cherin's representations concerning
the civic militia as being a concession
to Poland as evidently meant as a
Jest. and so far neither requires nor
deserves a reply" He considers. how
ever, that it is a jest requiring ex-
PLANTATION from the soviet government.
Polish Notes Made Public.
Washington Sept. 4.-Poand has
declined to ieOpardize her military OPP
erations against the bolsheviki by
binding herself TO regard the "artifi-
cial boundaries" laid down at the
peace conference.
Replying to Secretary Colhy's sug-
gestion that Poland remain within the
lines specified by the peace confer
pnce the Polish government states its
position ms follows:
| Notwithstanding the sympathetic
attitude of our allies, the Polish ma
| ton had to face the danger alone,
and political events proved that il
must in the first place rely upon its
own military strength. If military OPP
eratiOns necesSitated the measures to
prevent a renewed invasion of Poland,
II could hardly be considered fair that
artificial boundaries that do not bind
one opponent should interfere with
the military operations Of the other
The text of the correspondence be-
tween the American and Polish gov
ernmonts relative TO the Polish-Rus-
sian situation was made public Mt the
state department. 1t consisted OF q
message addressed to President VIII
son by Premier WitoS of Poland, a
note by Secretary Colby under date
of August q. and two replies from
The Polish government, one under
date o. August % and the other of
August 80.