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 Washington, Aug. 12-Polish forces defending Warsaw are outnumbered about 1-2 to 1. Comprehensive de- tails received today in official circles here place the ration strength of the Soviet army on the Polish front at 35O,OOO n1en. The strength of the Poles has been estimated at 140,oo0.
 Twenty-Gix Soviet infantry divi- sieSa have been identified as facing the Polish army in the front line, with thirteen divisions in reserve. In ad- dition ten cavalry divisions have been noted in active operation at the front with two such divisions in reserve.
 Besides the 39 infantry divisions reported on the Polish front the Bol- sheviki are estimated to have scat tered in other parts of Russia, 25 others as we'll as two cavalry divi- sions.
 Contrary to previous reports Gen. eral Sergius Kameneff and not Gen. eral Br-lsiloff, commands the entire Soviet forces on the Polish front and it is said there is not a German officer in the army. General Kameneff for merry cO1n1IldnueO 'lIlo lTOopS lShIihS KoIchak on the eastern front and as a result of his victories in that area was promoted to his present command. The BolSheviki army on the Polish front is reported to be divided into | two armies, the northern in comma nd l of General Toucachesk who is only | 27 years of age and the southern com manded by General Yecorof. Both commanders were officers in the Czars army.
 General Brusiloff is known to be chief of a military council at Mascow which has been preparing military plans against Poland. With him are associated many of the general staff | officers of the old regime
 | One of the most successful Bolshevik officers is General Budenny,n com mander of cavalry, whose tactics on the Polish front, according to military authorities, largely have made possi- ble the Bolshevist successes in the south.
 | Warsaw, Aug. 11-(By the A. P) ! Minister of War Trotzky has arriv- | ed at Bialystok, just behind the So- l viet front and has Set up headquar- l ters there, according to reports. l Speaking in Wilma, the capital of Li- | thuania recently. he announced So- l viet Russia had been officially re- | cognized by the western powers and l that M. Krassin and M. Kameneff, 1 heads of the Bolshevik commercial l mission to Great Britain had been | received at London with the cere- | monials usually accorded foreign am | bassadors. He asserted Bolshevism | was more powerful than ever and ! would soon spread to other coun- | tries"
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 Warsaw newspapers publish inter- views with soldiers who declare the Bclsheviki advancing upon this city l claim they have come to exterminate l the Bourgeoisie and distribute the land among peasants. It is asserted T they impartially piIIage manJions 1 farms and cottages and either forcibly enlist the men in the country send | them to the rear.
 In the Bialystok district the Bol- sheviki took a number of ,hosta ges threatening to shoot them if food | supplies are not delivered to the So- l Viet army within specified time. I: is said the country behind the Bol- sheviki lines is suffering from famine as all grain had been requisitioned and sent eastward by the Bolshevik authorities.
 Bolshevik prisoners say that the
 
 fears a reverse before Warsaw and is hastily preparing positions to which it can withdraw in case of defeat | Warsaw, Aug. 11-Hundreds o1 conveyances of all descriptions load ed with barbed wire and driven " boys and old men are streaming through the Polish capital toward the battlefront. Mingled with then along the roads are endless trains o1 supply wagons which are guarded by | elderly civilians armed with rifles. Al ! able bodied men are being relieved from other duties, so they may be made available in the fight for the 1 defense of Warsaw.
 Women soldiers are hurrying from place to place acting as couriers, ano French military mission officers are showing extreme activity, racins around the city in automobiles.
 As the fighting front draws nearer Warsaw squads of citizens wearing their ordinary civilian clothes ant
 straw hats but armed with rifles, art 7 drilling in many parts of the city. A: l the determined looking groups pas through the streets many boys il t knickerbockers, elderly men and we'll to-do merchants are to be seen sid by side with the more usual type O l fighter in the ranks. Class distinc 8 tions are being forgotten Or brushed
 aside.
 g Newspaper accounts of the prepara tions declare that the spirit of tn g people is to defend Warsaw, repel tn ] invader and not to count the cost il = blood.
 The government although it wil
 not concede that a date has been SC [ for the evacuation of the city, i > gradually moving away the importan state documents the packing of whicI began several days ago.
 tantinople Aug. 10-Bolshevil | forces in southern Russia are strik ing at the extreme Hanks of Genera | Baron Wrangefs army north of thu | Crimean peninsula, according to des patches here. Three Soviet division = total1ing 5000 men crossed tn | Dnieper river on August a1mos n | directly across the stream from tn. | oit.r <,f ICl,.-er,., and ,dr,,,cad ear.