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Show ILEAGUE SEEKS TO IT FIGHTING Bolsheviki Declared to Be Complicating Situation in North RIGA. Sept. IS. (By the Associated! Tress.) The Lithuanian government received the suggestion today from j Hie supreme council that the lightlngl between Lithuania .md Poland he dis-; continued and the dispute lefcticd to, .he executive council of the league of1 l.ations No reply hits been made hut it appears unlikely th.it i h- Lithuanians Lithua-nians will consent, apparently having' light faith in the league of nations. Andre Lewlckl, Ukrainian foreign i innister. has sought to establish peace negotiations between soviet Russia and general Pell una. but the Bolsheviki re-1 P'ted that such application must be made to the Ukrainian soviet govern-: inent The Bolahevlkl clearl) arr support-ln support-ln I kralnlan and Lithuanian contentions conten-tions to embarrass Poland and will also probably support the claims of White Russia for independence. In an ffort to complicate the situation. But Uie main boundary question at Issue Is whether Vilna shall be Polish or Uth-I'anlan. Uth-I'anlan. The Bolsheviki claim foi establishment establish-ment of the workmen's l 11 militia in free Poland and glits of land to soldier? sol-dier? are regarded bv experts as for l-iopaganda jurposes. The Bolsheviki delegation discredits discred-its the report of a revolution in Petro-grad. Petro-grad. Weary of war and endless peace parleys, Riga Is paving little attention to the coming negotiations between the Poles and Bolsheviki. This city of formerly nearly 400.000 inhabitants, has been reduced to 180,000 Letts are much discouraged over the ruin wrought by the war. but are loud in iheir expressions of satisfaction that the Russian Bolsheviki have been ex-prllerl ex-prllerl from Latvia and other Baltic fatcs. The Polish delegation Is expected ex-pected to arrive from Llbau Thursday. Thurs-day. The conference probably will opon Friday. |