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Show LITHUANIANS ME" I0AID0FRUSSIANS ATTACK POLES ON 8EINY FRONT AND FURTHER COMPLICATE EASTERN SITUATION. Negotiations Regarding the Frontlet nnd Future Relations of Poland and Lithuania Broken as Result of Unlooked-for Encounter. Wnrj-uw. An attack on Polish forces by tho Lithuanians with' nn-chlno nn-chlno guns ami artillery In tho region re-gion of Kelny, thlrty-flvo kniles northwest north-west of tlrodno, Is announced In Polish Po-lish reports from tho northern front. Tho reports declaro that tho nttnek was unprovoked and that thu Lithuanians Lithu-anians had recehud orders to occupy Augustowo. The Polish pres comments on the Lithuanian action as Inexplicable, as tho prnUslonnl frontier between Poland Po-land nnd Llthuilnln has not jet been reached by tho Polos. Tho latter contend con-tend that the Lithuanians nro occupying occu-pying several localities on tho Polish side of tho frontier. It Is also announced that negotiations negotia-tions regarding tho frontier and the future relations of Poland and Lithuania Lithu-ania huo been broken off nnd that tho Polish delegate's nro roturnlng to Warsaw. These dciegaten comprise n speclnl mission which went to Kovno about n month ago to confer with thrr Lithuanians. It Is wild the supremo council has been Informed that thu Lithuanians propose n-nuw Hue of demarcation, de-marcation, running through Marggra-bowa, Marggra-bowa, Augustowo nnd Szuczyn. It Is understood tho Lithuanian government gov-ernment places tho responsibility for the clash upon tho Poles, asserting that the Lithuanians wero compelled to defend de-fend themselves. The Poles claim the Lithuanians opened fire first. |