New-York tribune., 1920-08-10
Bolsheviki Cut
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reaching the French Foreign Office to-
day
The Soviet cavalry units are report
ed greatly depleted, owing to the ex-
haustion of both men and horses in
the last weeks hard riding.
The Polish General Staff has definite
ly rejected the offer of General View
gand, OF the French army, to take
command of the Polish army if grant
report from the Anglo French mission
in Warsaw.
Both General Weygand and General
De!ma Radcliffe, Of the British mill
tary mission, have been insisting that
'he situation was not hopeless and
could be retrieved if their recommen
datlons were carried out.
Feared Loss of East Galicia
The suggestions of Generals View
gand and Radcliffe included regroup-
ing OF the Polish forces and strategic
movements. They advised strongly
against keeping large part of the
fohsh forces on the Galician front
but the Poles were determined upon
these tactics because they feared that
II Eastern Gphcia passes out of their
hands it will be lost permanently.
ioiand holds East Galieia at present
ment.
1t is known also that 800 picked
French officers, composing the Warsaw
MISSION, have found it difficult to cxer-
else whatever authority apparently
has been allowed them by the Poles
These officers and members of the
brltlsh mission had been counted on
by Generals Weygand and Radcliffe
to reorganlze the Poles and thew have
oeen ready at a moments notice to
assume virtually every important post
The Polish General Staff is composed
Of officers with Austrian, Russian and
herman training, and, therefore, is not
only not united in military theories
but also is at variance with Generals
Weygand and Radcliffe. These condi
tions are said to have resulted in
failure to execute the Allied recon-
mendatlons and frequently even to
have hampered Allied directions of GER
tam services which they had under
taken.
The Allied leaders also failed to win
PRESIDENT Pilsudski's support for their
program and consequently were unable
to get him to bring his influence to
bear on the General Staff.
LONDON, Aug. 8 (By The Associ-
ated Press ).-Russian Bolshevik troops
have broken into the town of Sokolov.
about forty miles east-northwest of
Warsaw, and have captured several
points south of Brest-Ltovsk, accord
ing to an official statement issued in
MOSCOW yesterday and received here
by wireless.
At Maxim, q railroad junction on
the Bug River, about four miles south
east OF Ostrov, the Bolsheviki have
beaten off fierce counter attacks by the
Poles. the statement says. 1t adds that
Soviet troops on the northern front
are successfully advancing toward the
Narew River.
Reds Advance on Southern Front
In the direction of Siedloe and Lu
kow, the fighting continues with alter
nate success, the statement says.
On the southern front. Bolshevik
forces debouched along the River Bug
August e, striking the Polish lines
from ulodaya to Karytniki village. ad
Vanclng to the town of Vladimir-Vol-
hymsk and developing their advance
south OF that town. In the Tarnopol
region, in Galicia, the Bolskeviki have
driven back Hhe Poles to the upper
reaches of the Stripa River.
Along the Crimean front fighting is
preceding favorably to the Soviet
army, the statement says.
The Bolshevik military authorities
have established soviets in the parts
OF eastern Galicia under their occupa-
tion, it is said in an authoritative dis
patch received here.