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Show POLE PEACE MEN OflDLV TREATED 'soviet Functionaries 'Showed off to Impress Delegates With Their Power WARSAW. Aug. 31 After fvo siren ,uous weeks in I.in.-k while the Russian land Polish peace delegates vainly tried !to reach the basis of an agreement, ths corn ?pondcnt returned to Warsaw today. Finding thai his dispatches from Minsk from August 17 to 27 ba ! failed to reach WSrSAW a summary is now given of (he 31 range conditions under which the armistice negotiation were carried on. n the way to Minsk the Poles were received by the peasanis with curiosltv and by the soviet offiolalr- with efforts io Impress the Toles with their power Every move made on the Journey wax entangled with red tape and there wer" numerous delays for no apparent rea- son. The trip to Minsk, however, was a I pleasurable excursion compared to the treatment accorded the Poles when i they arrived, fir.st at Brest'LltOVSk and . then at Minsk They were cooped up I in 8 Russian train from Brest-LltOVSk I to Minsk The delegate., had onlv black bread and a small quantity of in describable canned food I On their arrival at Minsk the Polen were shut up in the train for three and one-half hours while preparations, i were made to impress them with soviet authoritv The train was surrounded 1 by a mounted cordon of the f:.:nous ' red guards" and on the trip through the streets each motor car was ace im . panied by two of the horsemen, carry ! ing i lflep, and Cossack sabers The bo Viet delegates win n-they made their iappearance were well dressed and! ; looked well fed The Poles were taken to a residence! .n the center of the iovn occupied by! th. military commissary. There were 'three or four cots in each room where 'the delegates were told thev were to sleep One woman secretary accom-Ipanying accom-Ipanying the Poles occupied a cot in I the same room with ihnc men at-' laches without any privacy Blankets were- rearer- ,ind ihc bid- uncle, in There was linen on some of the bed -while others had none The beds had; one dirty mattress made of straw, and i vermin was everywhere. Bolshevik officers said the Poles I were accorded the same treatment us I was given the German delegates at I Versailles and that Poland, being defeated nation and asking for peace. I could expect 'rigorous treatment for' their representatives. Members ot the Polish mission said the. food furnished them was plentiful.: but the far,- was monotonous. They j had plenty of sugar. |