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TELEGRAMS
ST. CROIX STA .ION.
(Delaved In Transmission).
LLondon,
Aug.
bth.—Among
British
officials
and
the
diplomats
of the
other
nations
nere
undisguised
anxieiy
is
feli
over
the
Russo-Polish
situation.
One
high ofiicial
said
that the situation
is
as
grave
as
that in August
1914.
Paris,
Aug.
bth.—Great
Britain
has
taken
steps
to rapidly mobilize
two
divi-
sions
for service
in Poland, according
to
the Matin, which adds,that
the p'ans
ior
the
transportation
and
vevictualling
of
this forece
have been
prepared.
Negoti-
ations
hetween
France
and Great Britain
for
the
purpose
of devising
means
for
aiding Poland
are being
pushed
actively,
other
papers
assert
that
the
Bureau,
which has
been
liquidating
war
stocks,
has
cancelled
certain
previous
engage-
“enia.;
L.ondow. Aug. sth—M. Kameneff,
Pres-
ident
on the
Moscow Soviet,
is reported
to have
sen.
a2
message
to
his
Govt.
asking
that
Russia
accept
immediately
the original British
proposals
for an
ar-
mistige
with Poland.
_
Warsaw,
.Aug.
bth.—The
Russian
So-
.siet
Armies, driving against
the
Polish
lines
defending
Warsaw,
maintain
an
average
progress
cf six
miles per day in
the
direction of thi§ city.
They
are
be-
ir.g held
in the
South
however,
and
in
some
places
are being pushed
back from
the district east of Lemberg,
which
is one
of the objectives
of their
campaign.
Constantinople,
Aug. sth.—The
Turk-
ish Nationalists opened
a hitter offensive
against
the Greeks
on a sixty
mile front
i Asia Minor
on
Monday.
The
battle
line extended
along the
Bagdad railway,
westward
from Kutahiato
Sizau.
The
(reek forces
in Anatolia are
being rein-
CHRISTIANSTED.,
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A.,
THURSDAY
12t
*UGUST
1920.
forced
from Thrace,
and
in
conjunction
with other detachments
have already
ad-
vanced
from Ismid
to Adabazar.
London,
Aug. bsth.—A
wireless
mes-
sage
trom Berlin says
that the
Russians
have
now advanged
to within
sixty-two
miles
of
Warsaw
-and
to
within
forty
miles.
east
of Lemberg.
The
despatch
adds
that there
is a panic
in Warsaw
and
all the
wealthy people
are fleeing.
London,
Aug.
sth.—Soviet
Russia
con-
cluded
a secret
treaty
wich Germany
con-
cerning
Poland
a few
aeeks
before
the
Great
Polish
offensive
began.
says
the
correspondent
of the Times.
London, Aug 6th.- The Russian
Soviet
reply
to
Great Britain, calling for a hait
of
the
Bolshevik advance
in Poland
is a
refusal,
according
to
the London
Times.
The
newspaper
says
that
the
armies
would
not
obey
the
order
and will only
be
content
whea
they
reach
Warsaw
which
has
been
promis:d
them for ioot.
London,
Aug
bth.—ln
the
House
of
Commons
today Mr.
Llo
d
George
was
asked
whether
piessure
was
being
ap
plied by the
Allies
or
Great
Britain
to
Czecho-Slovakia
to
assist
Poland
with
men
or munition:
against
Russia.
The
Premier
said,
‘‘Fverything depends
up-
on
the
answer
we receive
and if unsatis-
factory of
cours¢'
we
shall
bring
pres-
sure
to
bear
on
2verybody
to
give
the
necessary
supygort
to Poland’’.
Replying
to a question
as
to the
involving of
oth-
er
countries
in
1
new
war,
he
said,
‘““You don’t go
to war
necessarily
when
you
alilow
the
‘“ransit
of
munitions’’.
Asked
whether
in
case
the
Scviet
an-
swer
was
unsatisfactery
the
House
could understand
_no pressur:
would
be
appiied
to Czecho-Slovakia
or other
bor-
der States
to use
armed
Intervention
in
tavour of Poland,
the
Premier
replied.
“‘lfit becomes
quite clear
that the
Sovi-
et authorities
mean
to
destroy
Poland,
I certainly could not give any understand-
ing of
the
kind’’
The Premier’s
reply
brought
out chee™.
-
London,
Aug. iith-—The Govt.
suffer-
ed
a defeat
in the House
of Lods
late
last night,
on
an smendment
to the Mines
Bill, prosposing
that
instead
of a
Minis-
ter of Mines there should
be Parliaamen-
tary Seeretary.
Iword Peel,
speaking
for
the
Govt.,
urged
that
the
amendment
constituted
an
atrack
on the principle of
the bill, but the Pzers carried the amend-
ment by a vote of 38 to 23.
Berlin, Aug. 6tF.—The
German
Govt.
is
determined to prevent
by all
means
the Entente
sending
troops
through
Ger-
man territory
to help Poland,
according
to
a declaration
‘v‘\ade
in the
Reichstag
:
{
L g
8
today by
Dr. Simmons,
the
Minister for
Foreign
Affairs.
He
intimated
that
if
the necessity
arose
Germany
would fight
to
prevent
such
violation
of
German
territory.
¢
London,
Aug. 6th. -"he ''Herald’’ the
labour
organ,
says
today
that
the British
North
Sea Squadron
has
been
ordered
to
the
Baltic
Sea,
and
that
instruetions
have
been
issued
to reimpose
the. block-
ade against
Russia.
Ottawa, ~Aug.
sth.—-The
Western
Im-
perial Press
Conference
has
been
offici-
ally declared
,open
by
His Excellency
the
Governor-General
of
the
Domin-
ion,
and
speeches,
were
made
by
the
Premier
and
Mr. King,
the Leader
of
the Opposition.
A discussion
was
enter-
ed
into
on
the
principal
resolution
on
the
agenda
relating
to
cable rates
and
facilities.
After
several
hours
of
debate
the
consideration
of
the
resolu-
tion
was
postponed
until
fomorrow,
to
permit of it
being
reframed
to
include
the corrections
and
alternatives
‘brought
out
during
the
diseussion.
Viscount
Burnham,
Chairman
of the
Brirish
dele-
gation,
was
elected
Chairman
of
the
Conference,
which
will
continue
in
Ottawa
until Saturday
afternoon.
London,
Aug.
6th.—ln
the
House
of
Commons
the
Govt.
defeated
a
motion
of
Mr.
Clynes,
Labourite,
for
the
re-
jeetio.: of the’new
Irish Crimes
Bill
and
the
measureypassed
its
second
reading
by a
vute of 289 to Tl.
Warsaw,
Aug.
6th.—The
defensive
line east
of
this
city
has'
been
pierced
in
several
places,
according
to
reports
‘rom
the
front,
and
precautions
ha.ve
been
begun
for
transferring
the
seat
of
Govt.
to
Posen.
The
Soviet
troops
have
been
checked
in
their
westward
rush
along the Prussian
border.
And Noises
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