The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-11
Counter Thrust Against Bolshe-
Wiki Invaders Under Way.
Red Armies Continue Forward
Pressure Against Warsaw.
CAPITAL NEARLY SURROUNDED
Cannot Be Saved From Red
LOOters Except by Peace.
North Wing of Defender Army
Without Ammunition.

Washington, Aug. 11.-Poland in an
official proclamation issued at Warsaw
has solemnly warned the world that if
she is overthrown by the Russian Boil
sheviki her fall will be due not only
to "overbearing might" but to the
indifference of world which calls
itself democratic"
Berlin. Aug. 1.-THE Russians are
twenty-five miles from Warsaw, ac-
cording to a dispatch to the Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger today.
The northern wing of the Polish
army has virtually dissolved" the
dispatch said. Its ammunition is ex-
hausted
Warsaw, Aug IA concentration
and regrouping of the Polish forces for
an extensive counter stroke on the en-
tire Warsaw front is reported by to-
days newspapers.
The plans are, it is said. to begin
this counter move within few days
Military men express the opinion that
this is a propitious time to strike back
in an effort to drive off the soviet
forces which are endeavoirng to en-
circle the capital.
Cut Rest of Railroads.
are occupying a stretch of twenty-four
miles of the direct railway line be-
tween Warsaw and Danzig and a large
force IS pushing across the Danzig
corridor to cut the remaining railroads,
according to French foreign office to-
day.
The section of the main line held by
the Russians is between Ciecha low
and AIlawa.
Russians have captured the town of
Bcna, Poland, the foreign office was
advised today The Polish troops were
said to be clinging desperately to the
ground they hold along the East Prus-
sian frontier and in a southerly direc-
ton down past the city of Warsaw.
Eyes on NGinsk ParIey.
London. Aug. 11-Fan of Warsaw
cannot be STAYED off much longer un-
less the Polish and Russian delegates
agree to end hOstilities at today's
Ninsk conference. dispatches from
the front indicated.
Message from various points near
the fighting zone. relayed via Berlin,
said the Poles were not seriously re-
sisting the Bolshevikt anywhere On
the southern front their retreat was
described as ''hasty." At many points
the opposing armies lost contact, due
to the Poles swift withdrawal. Red
cavalry was scouting between the
lines, gathering in Polish stragglers.
The roads over which the Poles fell
back were reported Uttered with
abandoned war material
Resist British Blockade.
An official communique from Mos
COW said the Russians We're advancing
rapidly on all sectors. They had oc-
cupied ZokOloff, the statement said,
had forced the River Narew, forty
miles from Warsaw, and were grad
ualy encircling the capital from the
north"
There was hint of disintegration
behind the Polish lines in the an
nOuncement from Warsaw that War
Minister Leninoski had resigned. He
was replaced by General Sutnowski
and a shakeup in the war office fol-
lowed
A wireless message was sent out
from Moscow calling on the sailors
at Kronstadt and the Red armies to
stand firmly against the entente plan
to send a British fleet to support an
attack by Finnish troops on Petro-
grad The object of this strategy, the
radio said, would be to force the Rus
slams to retreat from the Warsa "
front in order to save Petrograd.