Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-08-28
REDS PUT TO ROUT
ON WHOLE FRONT
Crushing Defeat Administered to
the BoIShevik Forces.
MAY END WAR THIS YEAR
Polish Army Victors in Neiehborhood
of Dubno-Foes in Retreat Else
where-Ukrainian Troops
Capture Odessa.

Copenhagen, Aug 23.-The Polish
army has administered a crushing de-
feat of the bolsheyiki in the nelghbor-
hood of Dubno, the Polish general staff
at Warsaw announces.
The soviet forces are in retreat ev-
everywhere, with the Polish army in
pursuit.
The fortress Of Rovno. In Volhynia,
northeast of Dubno, has been captured
by the Poles after hard fighting
East of Mnsk the Poles have
reached the line of Igumen-Dortyn.
Ukrainlan troops have captured
Odessa, it is announced by the Ukrain-
Ian mission.
The capture was effected after Sc
we're lighting north of the city. Boil
shevist naval detachments from the
Black sea fleet, who were dispatched
in great haste to oppose the Ukrain.
lans, deserted.
Germans Aid Russ.
Berlin, Aug. 25.--The Tageblatts
Tilsit, East Prussia, correspondent, re-
ports the transport of troops and pro.
visions to Russia by night
This is considered here as confirm
Ing the assertion Of Die Freiheit that
there is cooperation between the Ger
man military party and the Russia
counter revolutionaries.
Antireds Win Battles.
London, Aug. 25-Advices received
by prominent Poles in London are to
the effect that Generals Petlura and
Denikine are continuing their often
siyes respectively in west and south
Russia against The bolsheviki and with
striking success.
The correspondent was Informed
that General Denlkine's advance prob.
ably soon would connect him with the
signal for the rising of the entire
Ukraine against boshevism and the
driving back OF the bolshevilli into
the desolate regions of central Russia
The bolshevik drive which hereto
fore had been toward Omsk, now is
being centered against Turkestan
where the bolsheviki would be able to
secure cotton and other supplies of
which they would be deprived by the
loss of the Ukraine
KoIchak Is Forced Back.
Admiral Kolchak's Ural Cossacks
and his southern army have been
forced back to the Orenburg Tashkent
railway. The northern Siberian rear
guards are retiring and the bolshe-
Wiki claim that they have crossed the
Tobot river.
The latest information concerning
the strength and the distribution OF
the bolsheyik army is os follows:
On the north front, 10000; west
front, 10000; south front, 100000,
and east front, $4,000 In addition,
1t is estimated hiatt they have TOT 900
men available in the interior.
The Armenians have taken the of
fensive southeast of Kamaria and are
meeting with success. The belief was
expressed that the withdrawal of Brit,
ish troops from the Armenian region
will not be likely to affect the fate of
Armenia.
The bolsheviki have plundered the
town of StaniZas, In the district of
the Upper Don river, according to adj
vices reaching here. Cruelties were
inflicted ON the population by the Dol.
sheyiki, who are reported to have
killed children in their cradles and to
have burned old people.
In the towns of Mgulinskaia and
Kahanskaia, in the same region, the
advices add, 5000 persons have been
executed and more than 500 have been
put to death in the surrounding ter.
ritory.