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The Polish advance in Enst Galicia is having an important political as well as a military Mflect upon the situation. Welcoming freedom from the devastating

A stirring acene was witnessed in the House of Commons on June 30th, which those who saw will never forget. It was the oyation given to the Prime Minister on his return from Paris, bringing with him the much-hoped-for Pencë. Parlia ment abandoned itself to the generous in-rule of the Bolsheviks the people look to pulse of the moment, which swept all- Poland for an assentee of future peace or very nearly all-betore it, and gather and good government. That the people

ed up every emotion surging through thaaie intensely hostile to the Ukrainians is breasts of members into terrent. of shown by the enthusiasm with which the cheers.

Polish troops are greeted when they enter Mr. Lloyd George was bome again. Ita town. An interesting document taken Wits known that he was to come down to from a captured I'krainian general con- the House, not to make a speech, but to tains a tepert on the attitude of the give notice that he would bring in a puple, signed by Colonel Kurmaniwycz bill on Thursday to give effect to the chief of the Ukraining staff, and dated Treaty of Peace. That was enough to 61 May end. It uphasises the hostility of the Chamber, except in one conspicuous the Ruthenian villagers, who attack the place. The Labour party was very poor troups as they pass through. In the ly represented. Mr. "Adarison was away. village of Tuki a squadron of Ukrainian So was Mr. Clynes Mr. Crooks in-cavalry was attacked and disarmed by 300 deed; filled his corner of the Front Operants, with riffes, and similar skir position Bench but no one now thinks mishes are mentioned in other districts. of Mr. Crooks as a party maŊ.

Mr. The conditions in the territory occupied Hogge was also present, and, as will be by the 'krainians are suspenkable, both shown later, it was a pity that the La Ruthenians and Poles being subjected to hour Whips did not contrive another the most revolting erecties. The sugges engagement. The Labour benches behindtion that the Ruthenian population is were also thinly occupied. •There was desirous of inclusion in the 'sexine can- evidently to be no welcome frim Labour not to entertained for a moment, in face for the British statesman to whom the of the evideare of victims, The Polish. rest of Parliament joined in paying hop-

Foreign Office have issued a report con- taining the statusint of a Polish barris.

our.

tir, f. Piotr Zacark, who was in

Bu Almost everyone else was there. and the Liberal lenders and their little blomra, a town in East Galicia, under band rose to their feet and cheered as

the Ukrainian Government After the beartily as any when, at the end of ques

town was taken an internment camp was tions, he Prime Minister appeared his [estäblishigt for civilians and prisoners of hind the Speaker's Chair,and moved war. The conditions were terrible, men down the Treasury Bench towards his and women being, herded fogether in place. Mr. Bonar Law" was one of the sheds. The thousand prisoners were first to catch sight of him and he rose crowded into eight sheds, with mud flours and began to cheer, and the House in an

and leaky roofs. No bedding was pro- instant became transformed into an vided, the inmates having to sleep on the excited assembly, members shouting their ground. Alf private possessions were loudest and waving their order papera. commandeered, even to the boots and There were, indeed, a few exceptions, who clothes of the victims. As a consequence, pneumonia was 'rite, as well as dysentery termed resolved to have no part in the and typhoid. The food allowed, was very general rejoicing, Pence or no peace.

meagre, and consisted 21 hlack bread distributed at irregular intervals." "When they were not going to acclaim the Prime the prisoners complained they were Minister or forgo for an instant their punised with terrible beatings, to which feud with bi Of these stalwart many of then succumbed: The document also contains the testimony of persons Daniels, Mr. Hogge- of course-was one. The heir of Strabolgi, Lieut.-CommanderWho saw a certain prisoner "buried alive. Kenworthy, was another. M: Will Thorne was a third And the Labour Whip, Mr. Neil McLean, of Govan, was a fourth, and one or two other deeper obscurities made a fifth and sixth.

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An official document issued by the or Kolomen describes the condition of the Rowianian forces tullowing their capture prisoners in the camp: Iney were half. MR. FLOYD GEORGE'S EMOTION.

naked and terribly emaciated, their skin hang in bags on their bones, their limbs The result was that, the nation lasted were frost-bitten, and gangrenous, and just twice as long at it otherwise might their condition of weakness was pitiable. have done. for the Coalitionists cheered During the six months the camp existed the harder as they took up the silent twenty bodies dad. At Tarnopol some challenge of those who would not rise, soldiers were discovered in a pit. All

of peasants und the welcome was doubled and re- doubled again and again.

them had been abominably The Prime Minister sat in his place very still, his eyes cast down, looking pale, "white, and tired. The strain of the war had told upon him. But the strain of peacemak ing seems to have told still more, if ever man looked as if he needed a long rest and an interval for quiet it is he who has brought back pence. Yet he is faced

rule of the Ckrainian army is marked with fire, the with new conflict. He has coune home to population taking to the open country. confront those whose one aim is to drag at their approach The land has been him down. Jane 30th., however, was ravaged again and again, the territory. his hour of triumph, and it was good

over which the Poles are now advancing to see Sir Donald, Maclean- and. Mr. haring atready been conquered by the George Lambert, the twin leaders of the Ukrainians, in tailing to observe the Polish troops, until the treachery of the Liberal party, throw aside contentious. mess for a moment and cheer the Prime rustic, gave them the opportunity to Minister of Great Britain. When Sirring up eufor.uments, and the Poles

bad wo fall back. Donald Maclean eventually put biy questions to the day when the Treaty Commissioner captured by the Poles in According to the report of a Ukrainian would be discussed, he prefaced it with the recent advance, the peasants peruited a graceful compliment, which he spoke in his district or Enczacz, Rome forty as though he meant every word. It was miles south of Tarnopol, continually chivalrously done. I was the gesture desert... The local polite listed from of a gentlemas.

the peasants assist the fugitives hinder in every way the establishment of the Ukrainian Government.

According

and

While this personal ovation was ring ing through"the Chamber the Prime Minister made one or two efforts to rise, to this Commissioner, the peasants openly but each time was horne down into his state that they wish the war to end, that place again hy new outbursts of cheers. they do not regard the Poles as their And when, at last, the tumult seemed to enemies, and that the cost of the cam- be subsiding someone on the Ministerial |paign 1x more than they can

Dear. side began to sing "God Save the King At He pitched the nate dangerously high, is

("At the moment the Polish advance

ahead going and, for a fraction of a second, it seemed the country is being cleared of the rapidly. And ns if the effect might fail for that reason. Ukrainian Bolshevik bands who terrorise but a crowd of oiliera plunged in on notes the people. The pity is that the Poles of their own and carried it off with swing, and soon the whole House was of deliverance, and that the whole process were not allowed to complete their work singing the National Anthem with fer has to le gone over agaia. your, This time even Mr.

expedient to rise to his thought

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and Lieut- Commander Kenworthy remembered that be had worn the King's uniform quite recently.

Only one person remainer

surely, if omens count for anything, it seated Mr. Neil McLean, the member Commens was moved yesterday to sing must be a good sign that the House of fur Govan. Mr. Seddon dealt him .. little later a stinging rebuke.

the National Anthem with such spon Several derisive and angry cries of "Buishwik taneity and fervour.

were also raised.

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PRACE STATEMENT ON THURSDAY! The last time the National Anthem wast sung in the House of Commons was one Saturday morning wher the House was rising for the end of the session in the first autumn. of the war. It was Mr. Will Crooks who started it then from his

an

Corner seat below the gangway. What many and signal as are th, and,

The Prime Minister said very little in the few sentences he attered beyond that he hoped by Thursday to have Authentic cupy of the Treaty of Peace to after he had made his speech, he would lay on the table of the House, and that, welcome free expression of opinion. Mr. Bonar Law will make a statement to-day on the subject of penen cricbra histions.

Thus the episode

triumphs difference between then and yesterday which Mr. Lloyd George has won On that September day all was

dark

Westminster during hix Parliamentary uncertainty, and those who knew most

career, he has never had one to compare feared most, even while they hoped most. in fervour and intensity with this. When This day Peace had been brought back, but, to a

changed Parliament and to a would have been more, or less, than he spoke it was with great emotion. He' charged world. How changed the Parliamortal had be not been shaken to his ment a casual glance disclosed. How changed the world who can 'gauge! But Bim and Victory and Peace from friends inmost sop at such a wild welcome to

and rivals alike.

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