The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-02
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Polish Delegation of Nego- tiators, After Delay, Is Engulfed in Soviet
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By Associated Press

Warsaw, July 31-(4. p. m.) Nothing has been heard up to this hour from the Polish ar- mistice negotiators since they were swallowed up in the soviet Russian lines at 9 o'clock Friday night, on their way to meet the soviet armistice en- voys.
 While the crossing of no mans land was arranged to take place at D. m., there was an hours delay due to a Misunderstanding in signals. owing to the difference in time kept by the two armies. and the Poles were obviously agitated by the wait imposed upon them before the jump-off from the Polish front to the soviet lines.
 The crossing was made in quiet sec tor, in the region of Kobryn. Seven Polish automobiles bore the emissaries. The cars carried white flags. The motor bearing General Romer, the head of the delegation, went over the line first and thre eof the other cars followed close ly, according to an American official who witnessed the crossing and re- turned to Warsaw today. This official said that just after General Romer's car and the three others immediately following had passed over the bridge leading from one front to the other, the bridge caught fire.
 The three remaining cars, carrying the aides and secretaries, with their documents, were delayed for awhile, but eventually succeeded in catching up with General Romer and his party by taking another route.
 The Polish military attaches no sig nificance to the bridge fire, as there were no bolsheviki in that vicinity at the time. They said the fire probably Tad been smoldering, as there had been fighting near the bridge for several days, and it was likely that coals had been famed into flames by breeze that sprang up during the evening.
 NO RELIEF
 Berlin, July 31.-Gloom prevails in Polish cabinet circles as the result of a conference of the allied missions held the night of July 30. according to Warsaw dispatch to the Hamburg Fremdenblatt. The allies. the dispatch says, set forth at the conference the diff faculties to be met by the western powers in an endeavor to come to the aid of Poland.
 Danzig is the only available route by which this support might be sent, but this channel is virtually blocked be- cause of lack of tonnange, and the allies, therefore, impressed upon Po land the need of her relying upon her own resources. The council of defense then drafted the conditions for accept ing the proposal for an armistice with the Russian bolshevikf.
 London, August 1.--The fortress of Brest-Litovsk, the stronghold 110 miles east of Warsaw, on the boundary of Poland proper, is reported to have been captured by thesRussians. according to a wireless dispatch from Berlin today.
 The reports, says the Berlin message, came from eastern Germany. and de- clared that Brest-Litovsk had been taken by the bolsheviki after only slight resistance from the Poles and that the soviet forces were continuing their advance toward Warsaw and Lemberg
 The bolshevik cavalry on the German n eastern frontier, the message adds, has been withdrawn and started in the di- rection of Warsaw.
 Fridays official soviet communique from Moscow, transmitted through London Saturday, said while it did not claim the capture of Brest-Litovsk, but indicated that the soviet forces hal reached that fortress in their forward movement against the Poles. The state ment said "We occupied Prushani Tuesday and advanced to Brest-Litovsk Thursday
 Paris, August 1.--The Russian soviet army is now within seventy five miles of Warsaw: It has captured Lomza, which is just that distance northeast of the Polish capital. and the towns of kolno and Szczuczyn. near the Ger man border in the Lomza region.
 Tn spite of these and other bolshe- wiki successes, the military experts of
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