The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-13
PEACE OBJECT
OF Poles TRIP
TO meet RUSS
Commissioners To Leave for
Negotiations With Russian
Representatives - Blame
Reds for Continued Fighting
DEFENDING WARSAW
(By Associated Press)

ing to meet Russian soviet delegates
somewhere on the road between War
saw and Brest-Litovsk, the foreign Of
nee announced today. The meeting, it
was said will take place between 5 and
o'clock Saturday evening.
Americans and British newspaper
correspondents will be permitted to
accompany the Polish delegates, the
Bolshevik authorities having expressed
a desire that they be present.
After meeting the Soviet delegates
on the road, the Polish commissioners
will probably be taken to Minsk, where
the formal peace conference is ex-
pected to take place.
The two man mission that went to
the front to inform the Bolsheviki that
Poland wished TO send peace dele
gates. returned here today and there
is more confident feeling in the city
than has been prevalent during the
past fortnight. High officials said
they considered the fall Of the city
now out Of the question.
Now Within 25 Miles
Russian soviet forces which are at
tacking the Polish lines northeast and
east OF this city have reached a point
25 miles from Warsaw
A state Of siege has been declared
here by the military governor. Civil
ians are not permitted on the streets
after ten o'clock at night, and cafes
must close at o'clock
Polish successes on the southern
front, where the Russians have been
pushing for Lemberg. are reported in
the official communique. The Polish
cavalry and infantry have ousted the
Bolsheviki from Radziechoff. Lopatyn,
Stanystavezvk and Toporoff.
Many Hand to Hand Fights
The determination Of the Bolsheviki
to press onward to Warsaw showed
Itself at various points along the bat
tie line today, there being hand to
hand fighting in many instances.
The Poles savagely defended their
positions and contested every foot of
ground given up to the invaders.
Fighting was reported today with
Pultusk changed hands several times
and last accounts were that fighting
was going on in the streets
The Poles were holding the west
bank of the Narew river at this point,
beating off the Bolsheviki from the
north and hurling back other enemy
river.
HUNS With Activity
Warsaw hummed tonight with mill
tary activity, but only soldiers and Of
Ulcers were allowed in the streets
Preparations for the defense of War.
saw were being made, and lights burn
ed until late in the war offices and
the foreign office, where affairs of
state were being discussed.
The terms and conditions to be car
ried by the Polish delegates who will
meet the soviet representatives on
Saturday to discuss peace prelimin-
aries were also being drafted.
1t was decided late tonight that two
American and two British newspaper
correspondents, as well as several
Polish, French, Italian and Spanish
journalists, will accompany the peace
delegation to the eastward on Satur-
day.
Just how long the delegation will
remain at Minsk, or wherever the con-
ference will be held is unknown but
diplomats here said tonight they ex-
pectcd the conference would last four
Or five days or longer.
A. p. To Send Dispatches
The Associated Press will be repre-
sented with the delegation and an ef-
tort will be made to send daily dis
patches, either by the wireless tele-
graph or by the. daily courier to Mos
cow from the scene Of the negotiations.
In this city It was announced to-
night that outgoing personal messages
would not be accepted at the tele-
graph offices here.
This is a military measure to pre-
movements getting out Besides this
the officials wish to devote all the
wires to government business, for the
most part because Of the crisis brought
about by the Soviet advance
Mattresses from hotels and cafes
have taken the places of men in all of
Warsaw's commercial houses. the war
offices and other branches of the gov
employed than at anytime since the
foundation of the republic.
Air raids over the soviet lines along
the Warsaw front are a daily part of
the city's defense. aviators flying from
the Warsaw aerodrome every 20 or so
minutes for the front.
One airplane caught fire when it was
starting on a raid. the pilot and OBJ
server being killed. and four civilians
were killed and six injured by the ex.
plosion of bombs when the plane
struck the earth.
League Delegate Leaves.
Simon S. Askenasy. member of
one of the oldest Jewish families in
Warsaw and professor of history in
Lemberg university. has left for Paris
as the second Polish delegate to the
League of Nations.
A branch of the American Legion
has been established at the Hotel Mon
opol. in Posen, where it will remain
to await developments. John Camp
bell White, secretary of the American
legation here, will remain in Warsaw
as long as possible.
Edward Noble, of Boston. Mass. a
lieutenant in the Kosciusko squadron
OF aviators, who was wounded during
the Kiev campaign, has been promoted
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