Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-02
REDS BATTER WAY
NEARER TO POLISH
CAPITAL ON NAREW
Hot Fighting Northeast OF
Warsaw Pushes Defend
erS Farther Back.
BREST-LIT0VSK FORTS
SAID TO HAVE FALLEN
World in Darkness as to Result of
Preliminary Meetings of
Peace Negotiators.
By the Associated Press.

4CdCc NcSUlldlUIS.
BY the Associated Press
VIENNA. August 2.-Rumania
hns served an uItimatum upon
soviet Russia. giving that govern
ment three days TO withdraw it's
troops from Rumanian territory.
according to n Belgrade dispatch
received here today.
In the event of Russia's failure
to comply, it is added. Rumania
will declare a general mobilization.
LONDON, August 2-Hot fighting
along the River Narew, in the region
northeast of Warsaw, is reported in
Sundays official soviet communique
received by wireless from Moscow to-
day. A crossing of the river at one
point by the bolsheviki is announced.
and progress against the Poles fur
ther to the southeast. in the Bielsk
region. is claimed. The soviet cav
airy also is reported pressing in
northeast of Lemberg. The statement
reads:
in the Lomza. region fighting is
continuing for the fords of the River
Narew. West of Bialystok the soviet
troops have crossed the Narew and
are continuing the pursuit of the
enemy. West of Bielsk our troops de-
bouched at the line of the River Nu-
retz (Nurzac), forcing it at several.
points.
I'm the region of Brody our cavalry
has advanced as a result of fighting
north of Busk Dusk is forty-five
miles northeast of Lemberg)
I'm the Chertkoff region our advance
is continuing.
The fortress of Brest-Litovsk. the
stronghold, 110 miles east of Warsaw
reported to have been captured by the
Russians. according to wireless dis
patch from Berlin.
Poles ORered Little Resistance.
The reports, says the Berlin message.
came from eastern Germany. and de-
clared that Brest-Litovsk had been
taken by the bolsheviki. after only slight
resistance from the Poles and that the
soviet forces were continuing their ad-
vance toward Warsaw and Lemberg. Up
to early this afternoon nothing had ar
rived in official British or Polish quar-
ters in London to indicate definitely
whether the Russian anc Polish arnis-
tice cmissaries had actually come into
contact
The British foreign office is pressing
all its representatives in that part of the
world for any scrap of news as to what
Is SOiIlS OIL, pul 50 Hitifoul iCsuil-
PARIS, August Polish plenipoten-
tiaries appointed to negotiate an armis-
tice agreement with representatives of
the Russian bolshevik government, have
arrived at Baranovitchi. where the
armistice conference will be held, ac-
cording to advices received here from !.
Warsaw. sss
s'Reds" Nearer to Warsaw. ~
PARIS. AuguA 2.-Thet Eussiaps
soviet army is now within seventy rfiRe :
miles of Warsaw. 1t has captured bom-
"a, which is just that distance northeast
of the Polish capital. and the towns OF
Kolno and Szczuczyn. near the German
border in the Eomza region. 80 ~
In spite of these and other bolshe-
Wiki successes. the military experts
of the Anglo French mission in Po- /.
land. are reported to be optimistic, be-
cause of the remarkable stiffening in
the resistance of the Polish northern ?
army under Gen. Haller.
The chief concern of the experts !
is the position of the fourth Polisif--
army. defending Brest-Litovsk. but
Polish advices declare the pressure
upon that army will be relieved short :
ly by the Polish counter offensive.
which is being directed northeastwarde
from the region of Brody.- northeasS
of Lemberg- =
A large number of ships are arrtyS =
ing at Danzig daily from French and :
British ports with munitions, -wnicn
are being ,unloaded rapidly and rush :
ed to the Polish front, according 70.
word received here. An efficient ufi-
loading system has been organized by !.
the allied experts. French, Brittsh.
and Polish workers are laboring side
by side without interfererce,, it is de-
fclared.
Pence Hopes DoubfSuL
. WARSAW. August 1 a pm. -
fndav in dfnln-
matte circles here as to whether an
agreement for an armistice would
come out of the negotiations between
the Polish and soviet emlssarles AT
soviet authorities were likely to in
sist upon terms too severe Tor the
Poles to accept.
The Polish delegates carried With
them into the Russian lines a
nortable wireless outfit, which they
intended to use for communication
with warsaw. officials said this
afternoon however, that it might be
days before the -negotlators were
heard from
The emissaries representing Poland i
have been instructed not to conceade
any points that might endanger
Poland's independence, accordine- 10
an interview with Vice Premier
Daszynski, which was published IN
today's newspapers. 1t had been in
timated in various quarters that lns
soviets would insist upon the estabss
slishment of soviet government m.
Poland before even granting ap.
armistice but the Polish emissartes-.
will make no CONCESSIONS whlch Woufu
hermit the soviets to interfere Win
the' interior affairs of Poland
; Polish delegates are ikfwise or
dared to hold out against any clauses Z
~ t,fch mi ght psovide for the dlsarfna-s
ment of Poland in any way. = ,
: Reearding the national frontler,- Ues
dsleSates are-instructed- not to con-
cedesany conditions changing Premler
I.ioyd Georges line OF demarkation.
,.rh;Is i'm the casee-of eastern Galicia
1he boundary is to be decided, Il. rs
stsfed according to the line held by
The troops when The armiAtfce be-
comes effective. - AZ
No Message From NegotiatOrs.
Nothing has been heard upsto this
,onr from the Polish armistice ne
gotiators since they were swallowed
nm i'm the darkness within the Rus
sian lines at 3 O'Clock Friday night.
While the crossing of no mans land
,ras arranged to take place at y m,
there was an hours delay due to a
M Misunderstanding in signals, owing
70 the difference in time kept by the
two armies. The Poles were obviously
apitated by the wait imposed upon
them.
The crossing was made in a quiet
sector, in the region of Kobryn. Seven
Polish : automobiles bore the emis-
saries. The cars carried white flags-
The motor bearing Gen. Romer. the