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Show POLES DEMAND WITHDRAWAL OF LEHTERi I Boundary Line Proposed by j Earl Curzon Displeasing j to Warsaw NORTHERN RUSSIAN ARMY IS READY TO SURRENDER I Most of Bolshevik Forces Re- ported Retreating in 1 Great Disorder j LONDON Aug. 2.V An lm- ! mediate rupture of ih Rnssei-Polisli Rnssei-Polisli peace negotiations nt Mlnsli will riiiU If the Poles adhere to (heir demands for withdrawal of the main Russian terms, --avs a l message received here- tpdaj from (.(nrcr Tohltchcrln, the Russian l.-t foreign minister, dated Mondav at Mo&COW. LH MINSK. Aug 24. (From Assoc!- B ated Press staff Correspondent with armistice commission, via soviet wire-le.-.s to Moscow.) The Polish armis- H tice delegates are not satisfied with the Bolshevik terms which make re-ferencc re-ferencc to (he boundary line proposed by Earl Curzon, British minister of H foreign affairs. The ground of Polish H rejection is that the Curzon line would H etrect the same as it tnird partition of H poiand, 'i he i olish representatives H stuteu to this line the aovieis were) H seeking io retain territory wrongfully H taken trom Poland 0 the Russian A note attached to the foregoing dispatch States that the Polish censors H rused to pass a rciereence to tne H ( Curzon bouiuiary line, so tne dlspatcal H i was sent via soviet wireless io -Uoa-cow and London. H iu..u)i io SURRENDER PARIS, Aug. 2a. .NcgotiailL looking to surrenaer to the i-oles hai I been begun by the northern Kussiuu ' t.nisftwiK Ttrmy, according to a Vienna H dispatch received here i-alest lnior B ; maClbn trom Warsaw nidicale-s the au H I vance ol tne Polish armies continues I rapidl) and that the Bolsneviki stent J anxious only to lose contact with thi H "rules ine number or prisoners cap- H : tureu by tne J'oles is &aiu to approxi- POiifiS SWEEP ON Warsaw, Aug. ib- The as- SOOiated Pres.J Kolno, an important town near the east Prussian frontier, norm ot Iximz, has been taken oy H ; Polish forces, wnich have been sweep- H ; ing rapidly northward in pursuit of i the retiring Bolshevist. More than J lu.OOei prisoners, who were cut oif from tne main body of the soviet army, have been captured in this re- Ueports from various fronts, par- tlculariy the northern sectors of tho line, indicate the nolsheviKl are ae- moralised and tleeing everywhere iu great disorder. General Soinokow ski. minister of war, has issued a state- ment to Polisn newspapers declaring i that the soviet armies nave been de- cisivelj beaten everywhere, auding that oi b0,uuu Bolshevik! troops p. a- ti. ipatlng in the otlcndive tor tne cap- lure- ot Warsaw, more than 140,000 have ocen accounted foi and mat nearly all other Uetacnmenis havu been shot to pieces. He estimates the number of prisoners ut 5U.UU0 and the numoer ot other BolsncviKi cadualtiea 'Ihe- remnant of the fourth Bolshe-vlkl Bolshe-vlkl army is surrounded near Mia'.) a and, while disorganized, Is endeavor-mg endeavor-mg io light Its wuy eastward. it attacked u polish Siberian bri-gaue bri-gaue near Chorsele, about twenty I miles north of Prsasnyss, but was re-i re-i pulsed, losing man) prisoners. 1 I. 1 l!KJ BC I ION LONDON. Aug 2.s Poland's rc- ply io the peace terms presented oy me Russian soviet delegation at Mines: amounts to a flat rejection, says tne ; Manchester Guardian s Minsk corres- , pouiient in a wireless ulspatch filed in . mai eitj on Monday. "Out ot tne fifteen Russian de-; de-; mandS," he continues, only one, that icuiiive io demobilisation, is accepted ana that only on condition that Kus-Will Kus-Will taue a similar course That U io suv, Russia must demobilize at the I sums nine Poland disbands hei forces. the boundary line between Poland 1 and Russia, as laid down by Karl Cur- ' koii, Britisn secretary ot .state for for- sign affairs, is declared unacceptable, as it involves a third partition of Po-' Po-' (and the iet urn of cuttle and horses ofrlven avvav are rejected as Interfer-i Interfer-i Ing with tho International affairs of Poland and a violation of Polish sov- ereignty, DELEGATES CALM vVARSAW, Aug. (By The As- sociated Press. ) Polish victories over soviet armies which Invaded Poland apparently have not affected the boishevlkl delegates at the peace con- ference being held al Minsk. A wireless dispatch received today from Minsk by Foreign Minister bA- The SolsheVlkl at today's meeting continued to retain their sureness of oo |