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Show POLES ANDSOVIET SIGN PEACE TERMS -": ' i it ' f ' PRELIMINARY TREATY ' AND ARMISTICE AR-MISTICE EXPECTED TO END WARFARE. . Principals in Negotiations Insist That Terms Eventually Will Lead to Restoration of Normal Con., ditions in Central Europe. , Riga. A preliminary , peace tr.iy and armistice was signed by the Polish Po-lish and Russian soviet peace delegates dele-gates here - at 7 :10 o'clock Tuesday night, October 1. . , Experts are engaged in completing the Ukrainian text of the ' armistice and preliminary peace treaty between Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. ' Both Adolf Joffe, head of the Russian Rus-sian soviet peace mission, and M. Domskl express satisfaction with the terms agreed upon. The bolshevik! insist the preliminary treaty is much less favorable than the peace offered Poland last February and the failure of the Poles to have' a financial settlement set-tlement included in the preliminary convention hus been generally regarded regard-ed as a soviet triumph. M. Joffe has had much experience at peace conferences con-ferences and the complete agreement reached by the members of the soviet delegations gave the bolshevik chairman chair-man an advantage from the first. Poland, however,,, obtained much more territory than . It seemed likely the conference would grant when it opened, and many Polish observers regard the corridor shutting off Lljh- uania froni Russia as a victory outweighing out-weighing any concessions made. , While the principals In the negotiations negotia-tions Insist the terms eventually will lead to the signature of a permanent treaty which will permit restoration of normal conditions in central Europe, Eu-rope, , thore is much pessimism among diplomats and observers not participating In the conference. The French are clearly dissatisfied and apparently desired a continuation of the war. The bottling up of Lithuania Lithu-ania is generallly regarded as a douot-ful douot-ful experiment and the occupation of Vllna by General Zelgouskl's men has created a suspicion that the Polish government had knowledge of the plan, which has been supported by Polish landlords in Lithuania. |