The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-21
POLES round
UP BIG DROVE
OF BOLSHEV|K|
Poles Say Complete Independ.
ence Is First Requisite to
Peace-Many Thousands of
Reds Taken.
DNIEPER FORT FALLS
(Bv Associated Press)

(Bv Associated Press)
WARSAW, Aug. 21-The Poles have
captured $4,000 Soviet prisoners up to
Thursday, it was announced here to.
day.
PARIS, Aug. 21.-Six Bolshevik di.
visions consisting of from 10000 to
10000 men are surrounded by Polish
forces between Siedlce and Brest-
L1tovsk, according to press dispatches
received today.
LONDON, Aug. 21-At the second
sitting of the Russo-Polish peace con,
ference Thursday at Minsk, the head
Of the Polish delegation announced
Poland's peace conditions to be the
complete and inviolable independence
of the Polish republic, with no inter
ference in its internal affairs, accord
Ing to a wireless dispatch received
here from Moscow, today.
The Polish delegate said Poland did
, not declare war. He asserted that
once belonging to Poland, merely TO
attain the free decision of the people
themselves regarding their fate, and
declared Russia was trying to estab
lish Soviet regime in Poland.
M. Danishevsky, chairman of the
Russian Soviet delegation. made 4
statement asserting the Ukraine was
an independent republic allied to
Russia. He therefore proposed that
the Polish delegates obtain a suppia-
mentary mandate from the Polish gov
eminent authorizing the Polish dele
gates to conclude peace negotiations
with the Ukraine. Then M. Danish
evsky read the terms proposed by
Soviet Russia.
At the end of the session M. Danish
evsky protested against the Polish
policy of dragging out the proceedings
and asserted that all responsibility for
the bloody consequences of such
policy would remain ON the Polish del
egates.
Heavy Fighting Reported.
Heavy fighting continues north and
northeast of Warsaw, near Plonsk and
Ciechanow, according to a Bolshevik
official statement issued yesterday in
Warsaw and received here by wire
less.
Further to the Northeast, the Soviet
and Polish armies are engaged near
Wyszkow and Stanislavow, while in
the region of Brest-Litovsk, fighting is
proceeding along the line OF the west
ern branch of the Bug river.
Near Lemberg, the statement says,
tLe ncIsheviki ere developing their ad-
vance after occupying the village of
Gliniany, and during the fighting have
advanced to line of villages south
and southeast of Lemberg. In the
Taruapol region, Eastern Galicia,
soviet forces have crossed the Stripa
river and have advanced in a westerly
direction it is declared.
In the Crimean sector, the Bolshev-
Xxi have occupied the village OF
Vasilyevka after fierce fighting during
which they captured an armored train
and it's auXiliaries. Further east anti
Bolshevik forces have landed near the
outskirts of Akyrskaia, on the Sea OF
Azov. but soviet troops have been de,
spatched to that front, and have en-
gagged in an attempt to eXpel the
landing forces. The fighting there is
said to continue.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. $50
Wet Russia has concluded an agree
ment with Armenia by which the
provinces of Karabagh and Zap1egour
In southern Armenia, will be neutral
lied. Entente circles here are alarmed
regarding this convention, which they
believe is equivalent to permission by
Armenia for the Bolshsviki to cross
the country from Baku to Anatolia
where the soviet forces can join thost
led by Mustapha Kemal Pasha, leader
Of the Turkish nationalists.
Hope for Americans
Advices to the French foreign of
flee report the capture of Tarsus
Asia Minor, Aug. II. and hope is now
being held out for the Americans who
have been besieged in Adana since
June 20.
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Aug. 21.-
Fortifications of the Bolsheviki at the
entrance of Dnieper river, which
empties into the Black Sea. are re
ported in official dispatches. received
today by the state department, tt
have been destroyed by South Rus
sian forces under General Wrangel.