The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1920-08-06
RUSH FLYERS
FROM u. s. TO
NORTH FRONT
Defensive Line Is Pierced in
Many Places-Government
May Be Moved to South
west Polish Cities.
WILSON TALKS IT over
(By Associated Press)

desperate situation on the front neal
| est Warsaw, the Kosciuszko squad
| ron, the air force composed for the
| most part Of Americans attached to
| the Polish army, is being transferred
from the southern front The squad
| ron will aid in defense of the Polish
capital
The American consulate in Warsaw
will be closed Friday and Consul Ran
! kin is making preparations to depart
| Friday night Most Of the records al
| ready have been shipped away
The American legation here also Is
prepared to close within very few
days. The legation employees have
shipped their baggage to Camp Grape
| the emergency headquarters of the
American typhus expedition.
Defensive Line Is Pierced.
The defensive line east Of Warsaw
| has been pierced in several places,
according to reports from the front
Preparations have been begun foI
| transferring the government if that
move is necessitated by the Russian
| advance. The officials, however, stin
| hope the Soviet forces will be checked
| somewhere east of the Vistula
| No announcement has been made as
| to what place the government would
! move to, but it is reported it would be
| Posen or Czestochowa, 143 miles south
| west of Warsaw, near the Silesian
| frontier.
Bolsheviki Press On.
Of the developments along the east
ern defense line, the word from the
| front shows that after halt of sew
| eral days while reinforcementS were
| brought up and supplies forwarded
| along the river, the Bolsheviki forced
| crossings of the Bug at a number of
| places.
! At one point southeast of Ostrov,
| the Soviet troops are represented TO
| have crossed the river in large num-
bers.
Tonights communique from head
quarters announced that the Russians
had forced the Bug in the region of
Drchiezyn (about 20 miles east of the
capital, this being a part Of the SOW
let movement to outflank the defend
ers of Warsaw and push on toward
the Vistula. The Poles counter at
tackled and fierce fighting is continu-
ing.
Poles Launch Counter Attack
ovsk, the communique continues, the
Poles launched a counter attack
against the Russians who had crossed
the Bug below Brest-Litovsk.
In the region Of Brest-Litovsk,
which is in the hands of the Russians,
they recoiled from an attack which
compelled the Poles to evacuate Teres-
pol, just to the west of the river.
There was fighting at various points
to the south, but without gains for the
Russians.
The soviet troops have been checked
in their westward push along the Prus-
sian border, the statement announces,
They have reached Myszniec in an ad-
vance apparently designed to bring
them to the Warsaw-Danzig railway.
Military observers assert that this
is part of the Russian outflanking
movement planned to encircle the
capital, thus saving the heavy losses
which would result If Warsaw were at
tackled directly.
Russ Gains Are Conceded
Russian gains are conceded north
and east of Warsaw, where the Soviet
forces are regrouping for what may
be the final exertion in their attempt
to bring Poland TO their terms Of
peace by directly threatening her CAPT
tai
In the center of the front bearing
down upon Warsaw from the North
east, the Russians, according to the
communique, are being held along the
Ostrow Czerwony line to the Bug.
LONDON, Aug 6.-The forcing of
the western Bug, the occupation of
Kovel and Lutsk in Volhynia, and
other advances by the Russian soviet
forces, are announced in Thursdays
official statement from Moscow. receiv-
ed today. 1t reads:
"In the direction of Siedlce we
forced the western Bug. We occupied
Kovel Tuesday night. Along the river
, Styr the soviet troops crossed to the
right bank of the river and occupied
Lutsk Our advance is continuing.
Bushatch was occupied Tuesday. In
the direction of Ostrov fierce fighting
is proceeding"
Poles Evacuate Ostrov.
, A semi-official message from War
saw, filed last night, says the Poles
: have evacuated Ostrov. between the
, Bug and the Narew rivers, 25 miles
south west Of Lomza and about IS
miles northeast of Warsaw.
The despatch declares that Polish
OFFICIALS UeileNe tHdL INC PioSCht rats
of advance If maintained would bring
, the Russians into Warsaw in seven to
10 days.
. Leo Kameneff Of the Russian soviet
delegation here, sent Premier Lloyd
George last night long communica-
2 tion giving the soviets government re-
: ply to Great Britain's note of Tuesday,
with reard to the delay in the armis-
tice negotiations between Russia and
Poland.
\ Want Reasonable Guarantee.
3 NJ. Kameneff's statement declares
) the soviet government never desired
e to combine the negotiations for an
5 armistice with negotiations for peace,
/ but that it demands that the terms Of
4 the armistice include reasonable guar
: antees which would prevent attempts
: on the part of Poland to use the period