The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-27
Poles and BOIsheviki in Battle
for Brest-LitOYsk Forts.
Are $4,000 Prisoners, 10000
Killed and 10000 Interned.
HALF SOVIET FORCES LOST
"SOyiet Napoleon" Relieved of
High Command by TrOtzky.
Germany Has Big Job Interning
All FugitiEes.

Moscow. Aug. 27-via wireless to
London. - The Bolsheviki have
launched a counter attack designed to
recapture Brest-Litovsk, it was off
cially announced today.
I'VE are fiercely attacking the
Brest-Litoxsk forts" an official COM
munique said.
Paris, Aug. 27-The foreign min
istry announced today that France had
counseIed Poland to attend the best
,.strategical military position possible
until peace is signed, regardless of
her ethnographical frontier, because
the military situation will influence
the peace terms.
France has advised Poland. how
ever. to withdraw her armies within
the Polish frontier upon the signing
of peace, the foreign office added.
Red Comeback Not Expected.
Bolshevik reaction against Polish
armies along the front east of War
saw is not expected, at least for the
present by General Weygand. who is
credited with having directed the de-
fense of the Polish capital and hurled
the soviet armies back from that city
according to the Warsaw correspon-
dent OF the Petit Parisien-
General Weygand is quoted as say
ing the Poles should not advance so
far eastward. but should entrench
themselves along a line that they can
easily hold. so that they may be able
to resist any effort on the part of
soviet Russia to bring over whelming
forces gainst them in future.
The foreign office added: Eighty
thousand Russian soviet soldiers have
been captured in Poland. 10000 killed
and 10000 interned in East Prussia.
according to the latest report received
from the French mission in Poland"
Poles Take TwO-Thirds Red Guns.
London. Aug. 27.-The Poles have
captured two-thirds of the artillery
used by the Bolsheviki on the Polish
front. according to advices from War
saw today.
The Anglo-French mission is re-
ported to have left Warsaw.
Fight for Brest-LItovsk Forts.
The Poles and Russians are fight
ing fiercely for the forts of Brest-
Litovsk, the strongly fortified town
on the Bug river; 120 miles east
of Warsaw. says the Russian soviet
official statement of Thursday. re-
ceived here by wireless today. In
the Lemberg sector. violent fighting is
continuing with fluctuating results.
the statement adds. The communica-
ton reads:
I'VE are conducting a fierce fight
for possession of the forts of Brest-
Litovsk.
In the Lemberg region fierce fight
ing continues with alternating success.
"On the Crimean sector in the
Kherson region. we have again driven
back the enemy. In the Oriekov re-
gion exceedingly fierce fighting is pro-
ceeding with considerable forces of
enemy cavalry"
Reds Lost Half Forces.
Unofficial reports would indicate
shat the Bolsheviki lost nearly half of
their effective fighting units in Po-
land The number of Reds engaged
was estimated by General HaIler at
about 100000. The number of pris-
oners taken by the Poles was said to
be nearly 10000, while about $4,000
have crossed into East Prussia and
been interned.
Sporadic fighting was reported on
some portions of the battle line ex-
tending from the region of Grodno
southwark to the vicinity of Lemberg
but north of Warsaw the sole activity
appeared to be the rounding UP OF
scattered bands of Reds.
Poles Take $4,000 Prisoners.
Warsaw. Aug. 27.-Eighty thousand
prisoners have been taken by the
Poles to date. the official communiQue
announced today.
South of the Dniester and along the
left bank of the Bug, we are pursuing
the BOlsheviEi," the statement said
In the fighting along the Dniester we
surrounded and captured the enemy in
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