The New York herald., 1921-02-03
SOVIET ARMIES ON
RUSSIAN BORDER
BOlsheviki Concentrating at
Smolensk and Along
the Dniester.
RUMANIA SENDS PROTEST
Finland. Esthonia and Latvia
Disturbed by Gathering
of Red Troops.
RUMANIA SENDS PROTEST
By CAPT. FRANCIS McCULLAGH.

BY CAPT. FRANCIS McCULLAGH.
Special Correspondence Of THE New York
HERALD
Copyri0ht, 1921. bv THE New YORK HrsAIp.
REvAr- Esthonia. Jan. 10.-While the
Poles. the Bolsheviki and the Baltic
peoples are all protesting their de-
votion to the cause Of peace the clouds
continue to gather.
The Lithuanian General Staff has
received positive information that the
principal Red army base is at Smo-
lensk and that the Bolshevist staff is
there. In Minsk there are eighteen
Red divisions.
At Novo Svyentsyan the Polish
troops are concentrating Tanks and
armored trains have arrived there.
To Minsk the Reds have sent spe-
cial detachments consisting only Of
Communists and Chinese" Minin. a
notorious member OF the revolutionary
War Council, has arrived at Smolensk
and summoned the troops there to
prepare for decisive battle with the
Polish landlords.
At Smolensk also Kapsukas, the
chief of the Lithuanian Communists.
is organizing there a Red Lithuanian
battalion and is haranguing il daily
on the subject of a raid on Lithuania.
The Lithuanians in this storm bat
talon only number per cent of its
entire strength.
Every country on Russias western
frontier has now been disturbed by
the concentration of Red troops-Fin-
land, Esthonia, Latvia. Lithuania and
Poland.
Reds ON Rum niau Frontier.
On December % Rumania also pro-
tested on the same subject in two notes
which her Minister of Foreign Affairs
sent to Tchitcherin and wherein he COM
planned OF the concentration OF Red
troops on the Dniester. The Rumanian
Minister asserted that he had no inten-
tion of breaking the neutrality which
his country had heretofore observed
ana that Rumania had already dis
armed a detachment of Russian Whites
who had retreated INTO Rumanian ter
ritory.
Meanwhile. according TO the Warsaw
papers. 5000 Russian Whites have al
re ady crossed the Polish frontier land
have presumably been disarmed. though
the Polish newspapers do not say so) j..
or these. eo.oo0 belonged TO the army of
Petlurs. 1900 to the army OF Bala-
khovich and 5000 to the army OF
Teremykin.
Lcnlne and Trotzky are both DESTROYS
OF peace at present, "in order" as their
Spokesman. Zinoviev. has just explained
at the Eighth Congress of Soviets. Ito
obtain breathing space for Bolshe-
vism"-but all OF Russias neighbors are
afraid of the Red army on their from
tiers taking the bit between their teeth
and pouring into Poland and the Baltic
States. There have already been Red
raids into Poland and Latvia despite
the wishes OF all the Red chiefs More
over. if Poland gobbles up all I.ithuania
with the consent OF France and without
any opposition on the part OF Great
Britain Soviet Russia may possibly
think that She is entitled to help herself
to the remaining Baltic ststes--Esthonla
and Latvia.
wilma Dispute Shoulders.
1ieut.-Col. Ozols OF the Latvian Gem
eral Staff says: There Is no chance
OF the Wilma difficulty being arranged.
The Lithuanians want the Poles to leave
wilma, but the Poles are only strength
oEing their position there and neither
Poland nor T,ithuania places any trust in
a plebiscite. The Poles do not advance
because they are afraid Of the position
which Soviet Russia might in that case
take up.
The League or Nations will probably
send no outside troops to Wilma. but II 1t
does there may be a conflict between
those troops and the Communists. The
Soviet Government Of Russia has re-
Gently grouped it's troops in the districts
of Smolensk. vitcbsk. poiotsl, and Minsk
and may at any moment begin military
operations In the direction of Wilma,
Grodno and Brest"
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