Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-14
WARSAW ADMITS
K|EV EVACUATION
Bolshevki Force Poles to Retire
to Jitomr-Dnieper Bridges
Destroyed
RUSSIANS ARE REINFORCED
BY the Associated Press

W arSaW, June Ill ne evacuation
of Kiev has been completed. the Poles
withdrawing to tho region Of Jitomir.
The American Rcd Cross workers. &C.
cording to latest accounts. had made
preparations TO cvaCuatc Kicv with
the army.
1.-THE evacuation Of Kicv was re.
ported unoffcialv from London Sat
urday.
News Of tho evacuation Of Kicv
reached Warsaw Saturday night, which
was the first report from Kiev in SOW
eral days. Just prior to the cutting
off Of communication by the Bolshc
visits. General Rydzmigly. the com
mander at Kicv. sent dispatch that
he would mako a stand unless other
wise ordered With difficulty the Poles
got through a personal order from
General Pilsudski. the COMMANDER m
chief. to the Kicv commander to cvac-
uate Immediately.
General Budcnnv. tho Russian COM
mandcr who fought against Denikinc.
Is bringing up -CntnrcCmcnts, the
dispatches say. but tho military au
NAlVlANltS dSStIl NV HSIl lul NltN IL
not yet ended by any means.
Before evacuating Kiev, the Poles
destroyed the bridges over the Dnieper.
London, June 14.-(By A. P.)-
Persias appeal for protection against
Russian Bolshevik aggression was ex
pected to be one of the first subjects
discussed by the Council Of the League
Of Nations at the opening Of its execu-
tive session in St. James Palace late
this afternoon. The sessions will con
tinue for two days. with the probability
| that the bare outlines of the conclusions
reached will be announced Wednesday.
In view of the hands off policy of the
council with regard to tho Polish Of
fensive, II is considered by some OBJ
servers of the trend Of affairs that the
Persian situation raised a problem al
most impossible for the council as
constituted at present to solve.
General Smiglcy'S retreat before the
Bolshcviki in Ukraine has bccn exc
Cuted in perfect order. according to
army headquarters here Tho advance
Of tho Bolsheviki upon Czcrnobyk forced
tho retreat.
In Polesia tho Russians lost severely
while trying to break tho Polish front
near Glibow. One thousand Bolsheviki.
right bank of tho Dnicpor. but we're
cut off and annihilatcd. THo hundred
wcro made prisoner and many were
drowned.
There is intense activity in the re-
gion Of Lake Soho and to the northward
Before cvacuating Kiov. according 70
Bo,shCvist communiQue. tho Poles
blow up the Vladimir Cathedral tho
railway stations. thc electric power
station and tho anucdUCt. Destruction
Of the last. the cOmmuniQue says.
doomed tho population to tho horror of
cpidemcs.
pPalod To by the Russian official news
agency to protest against the dc.
struction at Kicv and Borisov. Tho
responsibility. it says. mus, be shared
by tho British and French Govern
montS. 1t declares the destruction of
Vladimir Cathedral a more barbarouS
act than the destruction Of Rheims Ca
thcdral hv the Germans
The Vladimir Cathedral, one of six
in kicN. was a massive Byzantine cdi.
firc. built in the latter half Of the last
crntu"r. The glory of tho cdifcc was
a dozon powerful mural paintings by
Victor NaSnpzov. probably the greatest
Of modern Russian religious artists.
4 .NotHihE IN u hI>HId S''Ill'u To cApTONS
so vividly tho spirit Of the Russian
church As tho blaze Of gold and bar
barrie sploudor Of those remarkable
paintings.
Paris. Juno LILY 4. PD-Ckrai.
nian troops acting in conjunction with
Polish forces, have occupied Odessa
according to a Ilavas dispatch from
Constautinoplo, quoting reports current
there on Saturday
The Petit Pari,onno says today it
learns that the soviet government at
Moscow has decided 70 send 0 mission
to England to study tho situation of the
prolctariat.