23 OCTOBER 1920, Page 2

The armistice between Poland and the Bolsheviks 'has come into

effect, as the Roles have evacuated Minsk, which. is in White .Russia and -to the -east of the new •Polish frontier. 'The 'Russian volunteer forces which. were cooperating with the Poles have now begun a new campaign in White Russia against the "Bolsheviks. General Balahovitehis in command and M. Savinkoff is the political director of the movement If there be any 'truth in -the persistent rumours of peasant risings in the interior -of Russia against Lenin 'a tyranny, this new patriot• army should -find plenty of recruits. General Wrangel is still holding his own in the South of Russia. Last week he captured Nikopol, far up the Daieper valley, where he had already taken Ekaterinoslav, We comment on the Russian situation elsewhere.