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Show FRANCE AND BRITAIN AGREE TOWD POLES ARE CONVINCED THAT RUSS PLAN IS TO SET UP SOVIET RULE IN POLA :D. Plans Are Being Drawn Up by Focli and Wilson for Military. Naval and Economic Defense of Threatened Nation. Hythe, England. Great P.riiain and France are convinced that the holslu-viki holslu-viki intend to capture Warsaw ami set up a soviet government in Poland. This was learned from an official source following announcement that the conference on Poland between Premiers Lloyd George ot Great P.rit-ain P.rit-ain and Millerand of Prance, held on Sunday, would be continued, when the premiers will pass on naval, military and economic plans to save Poland. The plans are being drawn up by Marshal Foch and Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, chief of the liritish imperial staff. These developments followed official of-ficial announcement that the soviet had refused a ten days' truce, suggested sug-gested by Lloyd George in Friday's meeting with the Russian mission headed by M. Kameneff and M. Kras-sin. Kras-sin. While there has been no talk of officially of-ficially declaring war on Russia, the allies have decided to give Poland all possible military, naval and economic assistance at once. It was reliably reported that the blockade of Russia would be reim-posed reim-posed immediately. While the bolshevik! refusal is said not to be final, and there was mention of some counter-proposal, the premiers decided to complete all plans for Poland's Po-land's assistance and then wait a final reply. The purpose of the truce was to halt the bolsheviki rush on the ground they occupy and to arrange a temporary tempo-rary peace within ten days. Although the condition of the Polish army on the northern front is not yet entirely hopeless, it is said that every third man is without shoes and that there is hardly one with the complete field equipment. |