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Show FIGHT 1 PERISH, ; POLES' PURPOSE Premier Paderewski Says Nation Menaced by Russian Rus-sian Bolshevism. Warns America That Huns Are Still Huns, and Not to Be Trusted. ,l;e WARSAW, March 2. (By the 10 w . Associated Press.) Negotiations at Leraberg between the interallied t n . mission and the Poles and Ukrain-tj" Ukrain-tj" ians have been broken off, it being ' ' found impossible to get the Ukrainians Ukrain-ians and Poles to agree on a line of IV? demarcation between their forces. Hostilities are about to be resumed, it is reported. The interallied 'A mission is expected here tomorrow. 'UiHh- 1 ilv'k WARSAW, Saturday, March 1. (By the ! 6 Associated Press.) "Can you oppose Bol- ; shevism with the Bible? This is a question ques-tion which the world is facing today." Ignace J. Paderewski, the premier of ;e w .. Poland, somewhat nettled at the American Ameri-can opposition to the big Polish army which is being formed while the peace ; qa conference is sitting, asked this, of the ' Associated Press correspondent today. '"I am feelinar better now," he said, in Vhis familiar style. "Poland is beginning to see daylight. We have lots of trouble ahead, but, thanks to the allies, some of our bright future is behind us, Poland has to fight for this bright future, and -we shall fight! If we perish, you will perish, too. , "It is not an Individual peril, but a peril rt-.for civilization for the- aim of the en-'tire en-'tire Christian civilization peace and work will not kill Bolshevism, as far as we are concerned, because you cannot have peace and organized prosperity with your ncxt door neighbor advising your work- dnien not to work and paying agents to destroy your factories as quickly as you can build them. Most people like to get jnfoney without working, and that is what Bolshevik Russia offers." i Supports League Plan. T When asked if he was able to reconcile lithe Polish army of 2"0,000 with the league of mi -ins-plan, M. Paderewski replfed: "Ye .-rtainly, and I am quite in sym- Spathy witn that plan. Poland's army Is to be recruited for such time as Is neces- sary to restore order on our frontiers. , 1 1 will be an army of peace and order, or policemen, if you will, the same as the .CI tfc 'United States called up to protect its , borders along Mexico from outrage. 0. S'.f:' "If humanity he organized according to President Wilson's principles, an lnterna-U'St lnterna-U'St tional army will be a rorrolary. and if . . , the peace conference adopts these prln-UliKlC. prln-UliKlC. ciples, we surely will accept its judgment. judg-ment. We trust the peace conference : we are firmly convinced that its final Siverdict will be that of perfect equity. ,. "At the same time, we are living hurl hu-rl man beings, and it is unthinkable that Ulwe maintain the attitude of mot fori less objects while being attacked. We were attacked at IyCmberg. which has been Polish Po-lish for a thousand years. Ir. is now pop-10Q pop-10Q ulated by Poles, and the nation and gov-' gov-' CO ernrnent have been forced to defend their sacred rights. Iluns Still Huns. . L "You Americans, now that the war Is 11 Ibvcr, conclude that the Germans are re-vponUncr, re-vponUncr, that, they are exactly the same kind of people as yourselves, i It is a very disastrous error for us at present, w it At "1 is evident that the Germans consider M l themselves victors on the eastern front 'v-ind are planning the economic domination domina-tion of Russia, by selling arms to the Bol-sheviki, Bol-sheviki, which epidemic will cease when a ;it runs its course. The probable end of (Russia will he a dictatorship, with some ather Trotzky. Lenine or Hohenzollern type. Your advice o us not to fight Is d Kurl advice for a dying man, hut not llfnr a man who wishes to live and enioy liberty, We have to protect certain Institutions. In-stitutions. "On the whole, I am optimistic about Poland's future." Mission Reaches Posen. , WARSAW, Saturday, March 1. (Bv the in fCVssoeiuted Press.) Major General Francis J. Kernan. United States, and Sir Ksme William Howard, Great Britain, repre-cnUUive.s repre-cnUUive.s of the Interallied mission to -.Poland, arrived at Posen this morning on )TTQ,' special train. They were greeted officially offi-cially by the national 'council of Posania, Q Immense crowds thronged the streets to dicer the members of the mission and fffflhe city wns even more brililantlv deco-Iviftl-at.prl than on the occasion of the visit 0pf there of the Paderewski mission. The .CCU jiterulllod representatives will spend a -veek in Poseu confcnl ng with I lie Ger- naii authorities, the first meeting be- inninor Monda v t tio- |