16 OCTOBER 1920, Page 3

The Poles, the Russian Bolsheviks, and the Ukraine " Red

" administration signed an armistice and a preliminary peace treaty at Riga on Tuesday evening. The main feature of the treaty is the definition of the Polish eastern frontier, which runs north-east from the border of Eastern Galicia to the Dvina above Dvinsk. The Bolsheviks agree that a largo tract of territory east of "Congress Poland" and of the Polish frontier proposed by the Allies shall be regarded as Polish. By their treaty with Lithuania in July the Bolsheviks had, however, claimed most of this territory for Russia, while assigning the northern part of it, including Grodno and Vilna, to Lithuania.