Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-20
POLES PRESS REDS
BACK TO BUG RIVER
LINE, TAKE S|ELCE
Right Wing of Army March,
ing on Brest-Litovsk,
Warsaw Claims.
SOVIET PEACE TERMS
PUBLISHED AT MINSK
Pilsudski Delegates Will Not Sub
nit to Disarmament Unless
Russia Disarms, Too,

1 ~AS~A >~As~~>AS~As
Russia Disarms, Too.
Brest-Litovsk has been occupied
| by the Polish army, according to
advices received today by the State
Department from the American
commissioner at Berlin. His dis
patch was based on n report re-
ceived by him from POsen.
BY the Associated Press.
| WARSAW, August 20.-The extreme
right wing of the Polish army is
i marching on Bfest-Litovsk, on the
Bug river, 120 miles east of Warsaw.
according to an official statement on
the fighting issued shortly before last
midnight. The right wing has cap
tured Selce and Bielsk, the state
,ment says.
The Polish left wing has taken
PuHusk. about thirty-five miles north
of Warsaw, and is continuing its
progress in the direction of Mlawa.
In the center the Polish forces are
marching in the direction of Ostra-
lenka, twenty-five miles southwest of
LomZa.
French Officers I'm Command.
PARIS, August 2O.-The Temps an
l
0rnment has received advices that
Holish troops have occupied Biela,
twenty-five miles west of Brest-
LitovSk
Icontinued yesterday. according to a
report to the foreign Office today from
the military mission in Warsaw, un-
der plans elaborated by the French
iGen: Weygand and his staff of more
than 500 French officers.
All these officers now are either ac-
lively in command of the forces that
are freeing Warsaw from the Russian
soviet menace or are aiding the Polish
commanders.
1t is considered that French and
Polish cooperation in the commands
of the various forces now has reached
a satisfactory stage. j. j. Jusserand
and Lord D'Abernon, respectively the
heads of the French and British mis-
sions to Poland. have returned to
Warsaw from Posen for a conference
with Gen. Weygand and the Polish
staff.
The situation at Danzig is still caus-
ing worry. but it is expected to be
cleared. up when two French battie--
ships, now on the way there, arrive
and offer Sir Reginald T. Tower the
allied high commissioner at Danzig.
sufficient forces to control the piers
and permit the unloading of Polish
munitions.
i Reds Abandon Lukow.
LONDON, August 20.-The Russian
soviet forces have abandoned Lukow.
sixty-eight miles southeast of Warsaw.
and Radin, eighty miles to the southeast
of the Polish capital, according to a
Thursday communique issued by the
Moscow government The communique
claims that the Poles were driven back
seven miles from Ciechanow. forty-five
miles northwest of Warsaw.
The statement reads:
THE fighting at Plonsk northwest
of Warsaw continues. Southwest Of
Ciechanow We have drive back the
enemy. We are seven miles from
Ciechanow.
I'VE have abandoned Lukow and
Radin and fighting is proceeding for
Biela and WIodawa (Biela is twenty
five miles northeast of Radin and
| Wlodawa forty-two miles southeast of
| Radin) In the Cholm and Hrubieszow
! regions (southeast Of Lublin) our ad-
vance continues"
Peace Delegates Meet.
LONDON. August 2o.-The second
sitting of the Russo-Polish peace con-
ference at Minsk took place Thursday
and a summary of Russa's terms was
communicated to the Poles. They were
substantially the same as those the Rus
sian delegation published in London.
says a Moscow official statement, dated
Thursday and received in London this
morning.
Stated orders for the conference
twere agreed upon. Toward the end
; of the session. the Russian delegates
protested against the Poles efforts
to drag the negotiations, the state
ment says.
! The Polish delegates have refused
to accept a peace condition advanced
4 by the soviet for the disarmament of
1.-The Polish army unless the Russians
themselves disarm. says wireless
dispatch from Berlin.
The Russ Demands.
The terms laid down by the Rus
4 sian soviet government for an armis-
| tice with Poland, as sent to Premier
Lloyd George by the Russian delega-
tions in London, Were:
Ffrst-The strength of the Polish
army$to be reduced to- one annual
contingent of $4,000 men. together
with the army command and an
, army of administration tapparent-
lily permanent force), to aggregate
10000 men.
Second-Demobilizat of the Polish
army to occur within one month.
Third-All arms. excluding those
needed for the army forces specified.
Ukraine.
Fourth-All war industries to be
demobiliZed.
Fifth-No troops or war material to
be allowed to come from abroad.
Land for Survivors.
Sixth-The line of Wolkovisk, Bia-
llystok and Praweto to be placed ful-
lily at the disposal of Russia for COM
| mercial transit to and from the Baltic.
Seventh-Land to be given free to
the families of all Polish citizens
killed, wounded or incapaeitated in
the war.
| In return Russia offered TO with
draw the Russian and Ukrainian
troops from the Polish front stimuli
!taneously with the Polish demoblliZa-
ton and to reduce considerably upon
the termination of these operations
1.-THE number of Russian troops 'on the
Russian frontier line. these forces 10
be liked at a figure to be agreed upon.
| The final frontier of the independ-
lent state of Poland under the Russian
offer would in the main, be identical
with the line indicated in the note of
Earl Curzon the British foreign min
lister, of July 20. Russia stipulated.
/ however, that additional territory
should be given Poland on the east in
/ the regions of Bialystok and Cholm.
Delegations to Minsk
Conference Had a Hard
Trip Over BattlefieIdS
WARSAW, August 19.-Polish dele
gates on their way to Minsk to meet
representatives of the soviet govern