Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-08-19
POLISH CAPITAL IS
MOVED To KAL|SZ
Government Transferred From
Warsaw in Rain of Shells.
NO TROOPS TO AID POLAND
Millerand and Lloyd George Decide
There Is Little Hope of Saving
Warsaw-Plan to Blockade
Russia by Sea.

! London, Aug. 1O.-The Polish gov
eminent is leaving Warsaw, it's capt.
tai, it is asserted in wireless dispatch
from Moscow received here. The place
to which the government is being re-
moved, the message says, is kalisz.
KalisZ is the capital of the province
of Kalisz and is about $50 miles south
west of Warsaw, close to the old Ger
man border. 1t is on the direct rail-
way line from Warsaw to Posen.
Russian bolshevist forces have
broken into SOk0lOv, 40 miles east
northeast of Warsaw, and have cap
tured several points south of Brest-
LitOvsk, according to an official COM
muniQue issued at Moscow.
The outer forts of Warsaw have
been under bombardment since Friday.
At Maxim, railroad junction on
the Bug river, about four miles south
east of OstrOv, the bolsheviki have
beaten off fierce cOunterattacks by the
Poles, the statement says. 1t adds
that soviet troops are successfully adj
vancing toward the Narew river.
Cavalry Nears Miawa.
| Przasnysz, a city about Al miles di-
rectly north of Warsaw, has been cap
tured by the bolshevist cavalry, which
is sweeping in broad lines westward
along the Prussian frontier, occupying
Choir. Smaller detachments are APP
preaching AIiawa, about nine miles
farther west, and some have been re-
| ('lonhanOIu Stin
this city. This is one of the most rap
id strides the soviet forces have made
since they crossed the Orzvo river in
thei" rush designed to- cut out the
Warsaw-DanZig railway.
Bolshevist aviators flying over the
Polish lines have scattexed broadcast
propaganda pamphlets signed by Felix
Dziersnski, president of the revolution
airy committee in Poland, saying:
'Ma1e your officers prisoners and let
us Jointly march on Warsaw"
The Poles are appealed to in the
pamphlets TO wipe out the aristocracy
and make Poland a great communist
country. The pamphlets declare that
| the bolsheviki are marching on War
saw with the best Of mOtiveS-tO SAKE
the country from tie landowners rule.
?, Blockade Not Troops to Aid Poles.
Hythe, Aug 1O.-The allies confer
ence here reached a complete agree
ment on plans for dealing with the
Russo-POlish crisis. They include the
reimpositiOn of the blockade, and Civ
ing support to Poland by technical
advice, supplying munitions, ETC., but
no entente troops will be employed.
The plans are subject to the approval
of the British parliament, which
Prime Minister Lloyd George will adj
dress.
How to save western Europe from
bOlsheviSm was the burden of the dis
cussiOn at the mornings conference
here between Prime Minister Lloyd
George and Premier Millerand.
1t is said that the allies, though
loath to admitting it, feel that there
is little hope of saving Warsaw and
that the question Of saving Poland is
not the main issue. The main prob
lens facing the entente premiers is
the defense of western Europe.
In British and French circles it is
declared that the intention of the boil
shevil1i regarding Poland is becoming
clearer with every hour. The prevail
ing impression among the British and
French officials is that the Russian
soviet government hopes, through the
Polish offensive, firmly to establish
bolshevism at the doors of the western
powers.