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Show RIGA TREATY FAILS TO PLEASE SOME NATIONS French Are Dissatisfied With Way Matters Have Turned J OCCUPATION OF VILNA CAUSE OF TROUBLE Another Task for League of Nations Develops, Is General View l PARIS, Oct. 12. Leon Boar- getjis, as presiding officer of the eici utive council of the league of I nations, has telegraphed the head of the mill tar j mission sent lo Lithuania, asking that InCorTUAtioa be forwarded from time to time a . jH Occasion called for regarding l events hi Vllna with a view to such L action as might Ire useful to put f an end to the occupation nf the f city bv General Zcllgonskl, the i Polish insurgent commander- P RIGA, Oct 12. (By the Associated I Press). Experts were engaged today ' in completing the Ukranian text of l the armistice and preliminary p iai M y I treat;, between Poland and Russia and ;J ' Ukraine. Completion of this work was I I the lasl preliminary to signature ot r ! the convention, w hich was framed a'- t i ter twenty days of negotiation t Both Adolf Joffe head of tin. B r- I slan soviet pence mission, and M. from- I bskl. express satisfaction with the l rnis agreed upon. The Bolshevii; m- I slst the preliminary treaty is much I . less favorable than the peace oficred I'idaiid last February, and the feature II of the Poles to have a financial iettl;- ment Included in the preliminary convention con-vention has been generally regarded soviet triumph. M. Joffe has had jiV much experience at peace conferences. J and the complete agreement reache I by the members of th soviet dclega- Jj Hons gave the Bolshevik chairman PJH advantage from the first. j TERRITORY OBTAINED. ' Poland, however, obtained nn.' h 1 more territory than it semed likely l the ' ohference would grant when It opened, and many Polish observers ji regard the corridor shutting off Lith- juanla from Russia as a victory out-' out-' w i'hltiK: any concessions made. While the principles in the negotla- 1 lions Insist the terms eventually will i b ad to the signature of a permanent 1 treaty which will permit restoration J of normal conditions in central Eu rope, tlu-re is much pessimism amoni paling in the conference The French I aro clearly dissatisfied and apparent- ly desired a continuation of the war. I The bottling up of Lithuania Is gen- I erully regarded as a doubtful expen J ment and the occupation of Vllna by General Zellgouski's men has created a suspicion that the Polish govern- H ment had knowledge of the plan which has been supported by Polish landlords Lithuania. H NOTE TO POLES. PARIS, 1-'.' France and Great H Britain have sent a Joint note to Pu- 11 land advising moderation concerning H thi Question jf frontiers, according to the H I Active exchange of views concern- 'M the occupation of Vilna by Polish H and Lithuanian troops i. proi ims. says the Echo de Paris, which declare.-t H ' thes consider the responsibility of tho Warsaw government is not Involved. H The newspaper adds that the task of finding a solution lo the situation (B Is thai "t the league of nations, m L the opinion of government officials.- jJ LETTER OF PROTEST ' LONDON, Oct. 12. M Tyskldlicz, f chargi d'affa res of the Lithuan-.i u I government in Loudon, in a letter lo London Tunes, this morning, says ILLLLi the Poles "under a treacherous pre- I H tense of mutiny.'' broke the armistice 1 H agreed to with the Lithuanians H October 7 and set up a government in I Vllna headed by M . Abramowh. I H well known Polish nationalist I H Eeadi i of the Left faction, together 1 i with three other Poles. The letter I H Bays commander In chief of tit I LLH movement, Genera) ZellgouSki, L a I former Russian colonel of Polish Igln and was the first organizer of H the Polish legion under Alexander Kerensky 'H "No Lithuanians or white Russians consented to Join this hew von der H I Goltz in D'AnOunxiO style.'' th H letfjer. "The of SO-CaJled governnienl is to avoid trouble for the govt i n 1 1 k tn i w 1 1 i i ih K I of nations and the allies without nouncmg a continuation of its amtox- H and Imperialistic policy lis linal object the crushing of Liih uania's Independence and its anrextv- The letter says the Lithuanian gov- H ernment is determined to defend its independeiK e and that it still has H i in the allies and in the prestige of :1m league of nations. FORMS NEW si I ( j WARSAW, Oct. 1 (By the Asso-dated Asso-dated Press) The new centra! Lith- H uanlan government" at Vilna has pro- H j claimed the creation of a new state, , 1 H SayS a Lida dispatch. I i he so-called government has ad-dressed ad-dressed the Polish government, ask- H ing for forgiveness for the BIUUU) of General Zellgouski's, troops, and gives notice of the creation of (he nsw SI the territory cf which, it is set forth, Includes the town of Grodno, with s river Niemen as the dividing hne from Poland. A declaration to the Kovno govern- ne i the old Lithuanian gover-un i proposed the opening of negotiations with reference to ihe future relations I ol the two countries. |