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Show SOVIETS OFFERING PEACE ' 1 Bolsheviki Deny Prepar- ing New Offensive Against Poland COPENHAGEN, Dee 29 The soviet government at Moscow has sent formn; peneo offer to the Pol government ) wireless. The message denies that the Bolahevlkl are preparing a new offensive against Poland with the aid of Chine.- .forces. General advlees uneler date of December 22 said that I-on Trotzky the wvlel minister of war, was preparing for a gr- :i offensive against Toland next oprln. Chinese troops, recruited at the rate of EOO0 h day ad trained In the sovi. t military sehool woull aid the Bolshettkl In the campaign, the advlees deelared. LONDON'. Dec. 29. The latest newspapers news-papers received -from India eontaln details de-tails of the investigation of the maSsacM of natives ot Amritanr. India, last April and the testimony given before the eom-mision eom-mision of InqUir General Sir William Deynon. dlstriet eommander. testifying at Lahore In N'o vember strongly upheld the introduction of martial law He defended the aetlen ri i ii ner.il Dyer, eommander of the troor-3 In India at Gallntin-Wallaghlnn Snd Am- rltaar, n .oid mobile columns had been sent out to Impress the natives ami nv'.e It clour that it wns Inlendeel to keep order nnd to eount' i -nttaek false reports thai Ilrltlsh rule had ended. Magistrate J Bu Keogh testified re- , gnrding flogging He said that only natives na-tives of pood physique were chos ii, twelve being flogged In one day on mc same triangle The punishment was 'n-flleted 'n-flleted with the usual enne. CV'lon I Not th, w ho eommanded the . fort during the riots, sale! thai they laughed and Jeered at the British emite a month prior to the riots. Early In the morning of April 12 a crowd of six ' thousand eolle-eted outside the rails cf i the fort. They tried to push the rails down, and spa I it the people inside. Th..-stoned Th..-stoned on officer leaving the fort. According Ac-cording to ColoneJ North, many vised the expression "ti us kill the; white I men " The senior native magistrate at Lahore; Etahlm Rux, said ho gathered that the Impression prevailing In the mob whlc-h eollideel with the authorities in April WJOJ : that If the agitnt'on continued two ot three days It would result In the dismissal dis-missal of the lieutenant j.ove'rnor nnd If continued a week or so would. lnsu-- the dismissal of the vlceroX' |
