Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-08-06
WARSAW OPEN To
RUSSIAN slVIETS
Poles Must Quit City at Once,
Say Allies.
CAPITAL IS 70 BE MOVED
AGlIer's Forces Abandon 0efenses
Along the River Bug, Warsaw's
Last Line Of Defense. Without
Destroying the Bridges.

Paris. Aug. 5.-Warsaw win have
to be evacuated within few days, In
the opinion OF the French and Brit
ish military experts there, and the
government is expected to be moved
within that period, probably to Cra-
COW.
The report of the members of the
military mission, telegraphed here, de-
s.iared that the Polish army along the
Jsivs- Bug. had retreated so precipi-
lately that it did not even destroy the
bridges behind it, This river was
Warsaw's line of defense.
Wounded Tax Hospitals.
Cracow, Poland, Aug. 5.-Thousands
OF wounded soldiers are taxing hos
Pital facilities here. and doctors and
nurses, exhausted by long vigils, are
often dropping beside the operating
tables. The American Red Cross has
opened ar improvised school for nurses
and 800 women are being given hasty
elementary course.
Failure of Farley s.uns Warsaw.
Warsaw, Aug. 1.-The suspense I'M
der which Warsaw has labored for
three days was heightened by the
news that the negotiations at Barano-
yitchi between the Polish and soviet
Russian armistice commissions bod
been without result
The report that the Russian soviet
government insisted that peace con-
versations begin at once caused a
sensation in. political circles.
Announcements was made that Gen,
Romer's party was authorized only to
confer with the bolshevid on the
question Of an armistice This was In
line with the understanding that pre-
vailed when the Polish emissaries left
this city for the front.
The breaking off of the negotiations
was due to a misunderstanding, ac-
cording to the contention Of the Rus
sian soviet authorities in wireless
dispatch received here.
The latest communication from the
soviet suggests the negotiations both
for an armistice and Tor peace be held
in Minsk today.
CATION to Minsk invested with all the
necessary credentials to negotiate for
peace.
The Poles contend that ii will be
physical impossibility for them to COM
ply with this proposal
Officials at the American consulate
have packed mp their most important
records for prompt shipment from this
city in case the Russian bolsheviki
continue to advance. The task of Wis
ing the passports OF the hundreds
who desire to leave Warsaw will con-
iinue until the consulate is forced to
close.
Outgoing trains for Vienna. Posen
and Danzig are crowded, and seat res
eryations are selling at large pre-
MUM, People are fighting to gain
entrance to the station platforms and
rush for places TO sit or stand as soon
rs the trains back In. A close guard
is maintained by troops who inspect
all paper TO see that no soldiers de-
part until they bear proper creden-
falls.
While the Polish delegates are re-
tracing their steps homeward from
Baranoyitchi where the conference
with the holsheviki ended so abruptly.
the bolsheviki troops are reported
everywhere TO be pressing their at
lacks on the entire battle front from
the East Prussian line on the north to
the region adjacent 10 Lemberg in Ga
Iicia on the south.
5arbed Wire Defenses for Warsaw
Inside the great battle arc the
Poles are hurriedly preparing de-
feuses, particularly trenches and
harhed-wire entanglements In front Of
Warsaw
Many Americans and British sub
jects, including a number of former
officers, are reported by the recruits
: ing officers TO be enlistlng in the Polish
volunteers.
British lrritated.
London, Aug. 5.-The British GOV.
ernment is lrritated over what II he.
lleves is soviet Russia's equivocation
over the British suggestion that the
Russians halt at the armlstice line of
demarcation in Poland and begin
peace negotiations.
II has dispatched a sharp note to
the soviet government demanding a
YES or no answer as to whether that
government intends to listen 10 the
suggestion.
The note, II is reported contains no
threats and is not in the nature of
an ultimatum simply requesting 4
quick answer as TO what soviet Russia
Intends to do.