Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-08-28
REDS PUT TO ROUT
ON WHOLE FRONT
Crushing Defeat Administered to
the B0Ishevk Forces.
NAY END WAR THIS YEAR
Polish Army Victors in Neighborhood
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 bolsheviki in the neighbor-
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 Minsk the Poles have
reached the line of Igumen-Dortyn.
Ukrainian troops have captured
Odessa, it is announced by the Ukrain-
ian mission.
The capture was effected after Sc.
we're fighting north of the city. Boil
shevist naval detachments from The
Black sea fleet, who were dispatched
in great haste to oppose the Ukrain-
ianS, deserted.
Germans Aid Russ.
Berlin, Aug. 25.-The Tageblatt's
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.
by prominent Poles in London are to
the effect that Generals petlura and
Denikine are continuing their often
sives respectively in west and south
Russia against the bolsheviki and with
striking success
The correspondent was Informed
that General Denikines advance prob
ably soon would connect him with the
signal for the rising Of the entire
Ukraine against bolshevism and the
driving back of the bolsheviki 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.
Kolchak Is Forced Back.
Admiral Kolchak's Oral 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 bolshevik army is as follows:
On the north front, $4,000; west
front, 100000; south front, 100000
and east front, $4,000. In addition,
it is estimated hiatt they have 727,OO0
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.
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 ad-
vices reaching here. Cruelties were
inflicted on the population by the Dol
sheviki, who are reported to have
killed children in their cradles and to
have burned old people.
In the towns of Migulinskaia and
Kabanskaia, in the same region, the
advices add, 5000 persons have been
executed and more than 800 have been
put to death in the surrounding ter.
ritory.