Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1920 — ARMISTICE IN RUSSIA [ARTICLE]

ARMISTICE IN RUSSIA

Russo-Polish Truce Reached at Riga Conference. Premier Dombski Saya Agreement Was Reached on Polish Eleven Points Declaration—s2.ooo Prisoners Taken. London, Oct. 7. —Soviet Russia and Finland, have signed a treaty of peace at Dorght, says a wireless dispatch from Moscow. / Riga, Oct 7. —An argument tor the signing of an armistice, preliminary to peace, not later than Oct. 8, was readied by M. Joffe and M. Dombski, beads of the Russian and Polish dele- - M. Dombski said that the details of the agreement would be made public today. He mid that the agreement was on the Polish 11 points declaration, made at the beginning of the Riga conference after M. Joffe’s Moscow declaration,,. The agreement was reported after an informal conference between Dombski and Joffe. While it had not been expected so early it did not come altogether as a surprise, as reports had been in the air all day that an armistice would be signed within two or three days—by next Saturday at the latest After the conference broke up shortly after 7:30 o’cloct, M. Joffe and M. Dombski returned to their respective hotels. The announcement of the armistice was made about an hour later. The details ot the agreement have not yet been announced. The main commission had been working all day in a routine way on legal, financial and economic questions, when late in the afternoon Joffe and Dombski went quietly into session with their secretaries and got together on the main questions in dispute between Poland and the Bolshevik!. The protocol was quickly drawn up and the signing of it by both chairmen followed Immediately. The Polish official communication received by the peace delegates says that during the last week the Poles have taken 52,000 prisoners, 180 guns, 1,100 machine guns, seven armored trains, 28 locomotives and much other material. Attaches of the Polish general staff here say that the Poles now occupy the major part of the old German trench system on the Baranovitchl Une, notably in the Lida sector and tn the direction of Minsk, which they insist, however, is not their objective.