New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-29
Great Spring Drive of Boil.
sheviki on 6OO-Kilome.
ter Front Is Brought to
Standstill, Warsaw Says
Armored Trains
Fight Monitors
Gas Shells and Artillery
Used in Fierce Charge to
TakeKaAenetz-Podolsk

WARSAW, March % (By TIE Asso-
ciated Press) s).-Polsh armored trains
fought pitched battles against the Boil
shevik monitors and other fighting
craft on the Pripet River during the
Bolshevik thrust which was designed
to gain control of additional links of
the railroad extending from Homel to
Kalenkovitz and Mozr. The Bolshc-
wiki put down artillery preparation,
which was followed by the opening of
infantry attacks.
The Bolshevik drive has been unsuc-
cessful, according to communication
issued to-day. The communication an
nounces that the Polish military au-
thorities, after eight days of fighting at
various points on 600-kiiometer front.
see signs of weakness in the long
planned spring drive of the Bolshe-
Wiki, which was designed to break the
hold of the Poles upon the entire
front.
Entire Polish Front Is Firm
The communication also reports Sc
we're fighting in the region of Olevsk
River, with both sides using artillery
extensively.
On the Podolian front there is fight
ing along the railroad from Proskurov
: to Zoierynka, the Bolsheviki having at
, tackled They were driven back a few
kilomcters in northeastcrly direction,
however. The Poles announce that sew
eral Of the Bolshevik formations were
annihilated.
During the recent fighting in the
swampy country in the region Of Mozir
say the newspapers, arousing the local
population, which took up arms and
fought with the Poles, defending the
railroads and the countryside. The Boil
sheviki eventually were routed.
1t is estimated that the locomotives,
rolling stock, armored boats and other
Pripet Lakes craft seized when the
Poles captured Mozir are worth 3,0O0,-
900 marks.
The Polish line is holding all
along the front in Podolia, where
the attacks. Of their big offensive in
an effort to take the important fortified
city of kamenetz-P Podolsk, according to
the Polish headquarters communicate
! issued yesterday.
The enemy has been using gas shells,
artillery, armored trains, armored river
boats, airplanes and cavalry in his at
tacks on various parts of the front, but
he has made no Roadway, either in
Podolia or elsewhere, according to the
statement, although the fighting has
been furious.
On the northern front the Bolsheviki
tor 01r 14%~ NJ, j
Beresina. The Poles counter attacked d
and drove off the enemy.
In the region of Mozir the Bolsheviki
attacked after artillery preparation,
bringing number Of armored trains
into action. The communique an
nounces that two of these trains were
destroyed. Along the Dnieper the
"Red" forces used a fotilla in the
region of Rietchitsa. The fighting in
this sector is extending toward ka-
lenkovitz in drive evidently aimed at
the. recapture of Mozir and its impor-
tant railway connections, recently taken
of the Bolshevik offensive.
Town Bombed in Air Attack
To the north and northeast of Kam-
enetz-Podosk the "Reds" attacked De-
rashuia with gas and artillery. The rail-
road station was damaged. In day
light air raid Proskurov was bombed.
The Poles, however, held fast all along
the line, it is declared.
The Polish communique issued Friday
stated that drives were launched be-
tween Lake Osveia and the Dvina in
an apparent effort by the Soviet forces
to cross the river at several points.
| The Poles counter-a attacked, driving
the enemy beyond the river and taking
eighty prisoners, the statement re-
ports. The fighting in this sector was
continued, it was said.
On the front in Volhynia the Bolshe-
wiki also delivered a new attack in the
region of Olevsk, and likewise in the
Jemilezyna sector. The communique an
nounced the Reds were repulsed every
where with losses.
In Podolia, northeast of Kamenetz-
Podolsk, the line swings back and forth
few kilometers daily, the Bolsheviki
persistently attacking with artillery
and infantry in their effort to take
Kamenetz-P Podolsk. The fighting on
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