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Show SOVIETS EAGER m CONFERENCE WITH NATIONS Lloyd George Teils Parliament He Is Hopeful of Early Peace NEGOTIATIONS PLACE FRANCE IN QUANDARY Trench Republic to Insist on Payment by Russia of National Debt LONDON, July The pence confer) nee. between the i'-! Inns and Poles will begin t Barano-vitchl, Barano-vitchl, sr. mites Boutliwest of Mi'-K. m July go, ami the armls-Uce armls-Uce will stnrt the same day, The Vssoc'latOd Press learned l(Hla The Lloyd George boundar line l!l hold 111 the north and llie actual military lino In the south on July ot) will be observed. LONDON, July 20. Premier Lloyd George, in (he house of commons today, to-day, confirmed reports that tho Russian Rus-sian soviet government had sent the : British government a note accepting i.r.-nt Britain's propolfal for a peace conference In London betwflen the .0,1,-c and the powers engaged In j hostile action against tho Soviets or, supporting such action. Mr. Lloyd George said the soviet 1 had also suggested that reprssenta-lives reprssenta-lives of th- leading powers attend the! conference. The piemler added that Great Britain was conferring with her allies on the subject. Mr. Lloyd Ororge, replying to ques- .ioiim concerning xiussia. taia. "I am verj hopeful of peace, and that is what the world wants." lie also stated that since the Russian government had agreed to the Polish arpilstlce Great Britain had withdrawn with-drawn her objections tQ the soviet trade delegation proceeding to London Lon-don PREMIERS TO MEET LONDON, July 26. (By the As-soclated As-soclated Press.) Premier Lloyd George will meet Premier Mlllerand of France at Boulogne tomorrow (Tuesday) to discuss tin Russian proposal pro-posal that the allies hold a conference with the soviet government. Mr. Lloyd George will return tn London Tuesday night. DISCUSSION LIKELY PARIS July 'fi The proposal hv the Rusnian government, for a conference con-ference in London with all the allies as described In last night's dispatches, will be the subject of an exchange of virus between France and Great T'nitain It is po3slrde that Premiers Lloyd George and Mlllerand will meet during tho prt out week for a discussion discus-sion of the reply to be made to Moscow. Mos-cow. As viewed here, the soviet government govern-ment has seized the allied demand for an armistice with Poland as a pretext for a return to the original soviet Lmpalgn for official recognition of the Moscow government, and political circles Uj Paris regard the maneuver as a skillful one hich h.n plaoed some nf the allies, particularly France, in a dellcatp position. i R n: is STUBBORN Franco has not ceased to consider the soiet government as an Irregular one. not supported by the tree will of the people It is pointed out that r'remlr Lloyd George sppkS for all the allies, however, how-ever, when he communicated with the n- i authorities, demanalng that France may be forced into a position which she will he brougnt to recognize the Soviets, but it Is declared she will do so only after duly guarantees are Riven that the Russian foreign debt Will he paid MISSION IN WARSAW WARSAW. July 26. By The Associated As-sociated Press, i Nineteen members of the special British and French missions cnt here to lool; Into Poland's Po-land's military situation and to confer con-fer with the covernment authorities arrived in Warsaw early todav and the remainder of the day was taken up I in official rails ami conferences The missions. Which are headed by Jean Jules Jusserand, French ambassador am-bassador to the I'nlted States, who is in Europe on leave of absence, and Lord d Abernon, British ambassador to Germany, wore met by representative representa-tive of the Polish government. Vast crowds who had been reading the newspaper accounts of the allied negotiations ne-gotiations in Poland's behalf, assembled assem-bled and showed they entertained Krent hopes on the outcome of the deliberations de-liberations of the meeting DELEGATES RECEIVED The British and Fren h delegates were received officially by M. Skulskl. minister of the Interior In the new tabinet, at the governor's palace, where the heads of the missions met Premier Witos. One of the first questions placed before the missions was that of the disposition of war materials ma-terials for Poland which have Just arrived to unload in order to prevent Poland getting them. The dock laborers la-borers and soviet emissaries in Danzig Dan-zig are distributing anti-Polish propaganda pro-paganda v RED STIPULATION VIENNA I uiy 24. (By Tho Associated As-sociated Press ) It Is reported here that the first stipulation in.- Bolshevik Bolshe-vik I will require of th' I'olcs before entering Into peace negotlona will be that the l'oles disarm completely so that the negotiations mljrht not be userl to g.iln time or to nwalt the arrival ar-rival of French or British reinforcements. reinforce-ments. 1 |
