Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1920 — LITHUANIA-POLE WAR NOW ENDED [ARTICLE]

LITHUANIA-POLE WAR NOW ENDED

Military Operations Between Nations Stopped, Says Polish Headquarters. '

WORKING ON RUSS ARMISTICE Dispatch From Riga Says Independence of White Ruthenla and Ukraine Will Be Recognized— Wrangel Captures 10,000 Riga, Oct B.—Military operations betwen the Poles and Lithuanians have ceased, it was announced at Polish headquarters here. This statement was made in connection with an announcement that the allied mission on the Polish-Lithuanian question had arrived at Suwalkl Wednesday. Ukraine to Be Free. London, Oct. 8. —A dispatch tb the Central News from Riga announcing the signing of the armistice between Poland and soviet Russia, says the independence of White Ruthenla and the Ukraine will be recognized; that Poland will be free of debt charges on old Russia, and that Russia engages tb indemnify Polish civilians. Reports received from by Ukrainian representatives here say that the center group of the Ukrainian army has captured the important railway junction of Shmerinka from the Russian soviet forces. It is also stated that a Bolshevik counter offensive against the southern wing of the Ukrainian army has failed and that the are continuing to advance toward Moghfleff. Wrangel Captures 10,000. Constantinople, Oct 8. —More than 10,000 Bolshevik prisoners were taken and enormous stores of material captured by General Wrangel, the an-. tl-Bolshevik leader in south Russia, when his troops occupied Mariupol, a seaport on the Sea of Azov, and the center of the Donets-Yousovka mining basin, says a communication issued by Wrangei’s government A dispatch from Sebastopol said Wrangei’s troops, developing their offensive against the Rpssian soviet forces, had occupied Petroviket and Novespassovlk, an the coast of the Sea of Azov, and captured more than 4,000 prisoners, 12 cannon and 130 machine-guns. French Fear for Wrangel. Paris, Oct 8. —Military circles here are concerned over the effect the conclusion of an armistice between Russia and Poland will have on the campaign of General Baron Wrangel in south Russia. \ They declare there is no doubt that the Bolshevlkl will at once send reinforcements to the Crimean front Reports emanating from Moscow that & French fleet Intends to attack Black sea ports are denied by the Matin.