New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-13

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Pultusk, and, although badly equipped,
half trained and not too we'll supplied
with ammunition, they are holding
their own. according to the latest news
reaching Paris. But the battle is sway
the balance.
New Menace in South
There is little change on the re-
mainder of the front, except in the
south, where the activity Of the Boil
shevik General Budenny is creating a
new danger. Budenny has the choice
push northward between the Bug and
Vistula rivers and hamper the con-
centrations and movements of the
Polish reserves, or move southwest
ward and turn the Polish defenses on
the East Galician rivers, swoop down
upon Lembcrg, and eventually upon
Prezemysl, and the line of the San
River.
The operations of General Wrangel,
the anti-B olshevik commander in South
Russia, can do nothing to relieve the
pressure on the Poles, according to
French military opinion. General
Wrangel is marching out of the Crimea
to find on the continent q means for
followed his retreat last year.
Polish Situation Improved
Dispatches to the echo de Paris"
from Warsaw to-day represent the
military situation as greatly improved,
following the reinforcement of the
northern Polish army in conformity
with the advice Of General Weygand,
of the French mission. The Polish
army is said to be at present the equal
numerically of the Soviet army.
JOHANNESBURG, East Prussia, Aug.
II (By The Associated Press Re
ports that Mlawa, an important city
on the WarsawDanzig Railway, was
taken by the Bolsheviki on Tuesday
and that Soviet cavalry was within
rifle shot of Warsaw, the fall of which
was expected Thursday or Friday,
were brought here to-day by a CORE
spondent of the Koenigsberg "Allge-
meme Zeitung."
There have been no official dispatches
indicating that Soviet armies have
taken Mlawa, and most recent advices
from the fighting area have shown the
Bolsheviki to be some 80 miles from
the Polish capital.
Americans, British and French who
are fighting with the Poles against the
Bolsheviki are considered fair game
to kill" by the common soldiers of the
Soviet army, it is declared by the cor
respondent, who says the Bolshcviki
'bourgeoisie who should be exter-
minated"
Soviet Troops Well Armed
The correspondent, who spent some
time along the Bolshevik front, said he
had been given most courteous con-
sideraton as representative of the
vited him to numerous teas and other
social functions, conducted him along
the front and permitted him to wit
ness a battle between Soviet cavalary
and Polish infantry.
Bolshevik cavalry, he said, is ex-
cellently disciplined and equipped with
machine guns, which are operated from
the saddle. The men, however, present
ed a ragged appearance, their clothes
not being uniform. The officers have
been chosen because of their great
bravery or fighting prowess.
The wild country between Lomza and
Kolno is infested with bandits, who are
preying on the population, according to
Bolshevik reports.
Russian forces have occupied Soldau
a town in East Prussia northwest of
Mlawa, by consent of the German in
habitants, according to rumors here
VIENNA, Aug. 12.-Ukrainia has pre-
scented a formal demand to the Russian
Soviet for the evacuation of her ter
ritory by the Bolsheviki. says a Ukra-
nian Press Bureau announcement
made here to-day. Copies of the mani
festo have been sent to all govern
ments, with an appeal for Western aid
in the establishment in Ukraine of a
constituent assembly to determine the
form of government to be maintained
and its stand toward Bolshevsm.