The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-08-20
Russians Overrun Poland While
the Allies Seek to Devise
Ways to Stop Them.
ENEMY CLOSE TO WARSAW
League Of Nations Council Adopts
Basic Plans - Railways Satisfied
With Rate ncreases-commu-
mist Labor Party Leaders
Convicted in Sweden.
BY EDWARD w. PlCkARD.

Suspicious that the soviet Russians
We're not acting in good faith when
they offered to negotiate an armistice
with the Poles We're we'll founded. No
sooner had the Poles reached the place
of meeting than the Russians broke
Off the negotiations and demanded
that another discussion be opened at
MinSk. All the time their armies con-
tnued the fierce attack designed to
cut off the pauZig corridor and TO cap
ture Warsaw. AT this writing the for
mer part of that program has been
temporarily checked 10y Polish sue
cesSeS, but the latter part is about to
be carried out. With the red army
within a few miles of Warsaw, the
civilian inhabitants of that city were
in flight and the government was pre-
pairing to move to tracOW. The Rus
slams had captured the great fortress
of Bre>tl.itoySk and had crossed the
Bug river northwest Of THAI place adj
Nanting in ectIeon in such way as
TO force the Poles to evacuale the
strong forts west of BreSt -LitoNSk and
eventually TO drive them out of War
saw If Succor did not come. Further
north. soviet troops that had crossed
the NareW river We're defeated and
in the south, where they threatened
Lembere. they We're being held and
even pushed back in some places.
Since ii was agreed that only ont
side aid could save Poland from be-
inc hari Ey fhn nlShptii-i }a
main question was the source and ma
lure of that aid. Premier LLOYD
George, placed in most unconfort-
able position. was said to have called
kraSsin and kamineff the soviet rep
reSentatiNeS. to conference and to
have demanded that the advance into
Poland be Immediately and nncOndi-
tionaiiy stopped. even before the sign
Ing of an arniStice, or else Great Brit
ain would declare war. If this WAS his
determination. il was reached despite
the views of a considerable part of
his cabinet, including himself that
peace with Russia must he forced by
economic rather than military meas
ureS. Others of the ministers. lead by
Winston Churchill, were said to favor
unrelenting warfare on the holSheviki
and the extension of unlimited aid TO
Poland. There was q rumnr in Lon
don that the allies had determined TO
sent six divisions to Poland. preSum-
ably some of the Occup:.tiona forces
from Germany. Also, the members of
the supreme council of allied amhas-
sailors were hurriedly called from
their vacations to meet in Paris.
The reply OF Moscow to Lloyd
George. according to the London
Times, was refusal to halt the bol-
the army had been promised the loot.
ing of Warsaw. The Russians said
they were prepared to offer Poland
complete independence and wider
boundaries, but that they insisted on
n separate peace with the Poles.
The allies realize thar in sending an
army to the rescue of the Poles they
may be compelled to violate the neql-
traliiy which Germany has proclaimed.
and the sincerity of Berlin Is so ques-
tionahle that this may be done with
out much conpunctOn. A sinister as
pect Is given the stand of the Ger
mans by the report that before the
Polish offensive began they made
secret treaty with the Moscow gov
eminent. The treaty it is asserted,
contained the following provisions:
Russia. without interference from
Germany. wonld he allowed to appro-
pirate all Of Poland's arms. munitions,
rolling stock and fOOdstuffs.
After the conquest of Poland permits