Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-08-17
POLES MUST GIVE
UP THEIR CAPITAL
Military Experts in Warsaw Say
City Must Be Evacuated
Within Three Days.
RETREAT is BECOMING A ROUT
Polish Army Along the Bug Failed
to Destroy Bridges Behind Them
Failure Of Farley With
Reds Stuns People.

Paris, Aug. 6.-Warsaw will have
to be evacuated within a few days, in
| the opinion of the French and Brit
lsh military experts there, and the
| government is expected TO be moved
within that period, probably to Cra-
COW.
The report Of the members of the
military mission, telegraphed here, de-
| clared that the Polish army along the
River Bug, had retreated so precipi-
lately that it did not even destroy the
bridges behind it. This river was
Warsaw's line of defense.
Cracow, Poland, Aug. 6.-Thousands
of wounded soldiers are taxing hos
pital facilities here, and doctors and
| nurses, exhausted by long vigils, are
often dropping beside the operating
tables. The American Red Cross has
opened an imprOvised school for nurses
and 800 women are being given hasty
elementary course.
Warsaw, Aug. 6.-The suspense I'M
der which Warsaw has labored for
three days was heightened by the
news that. the negotiations at Barano-
vitchi between the Polish and soviet
Russian armistice commissions had
been without result.
The report that the Russian soviet
government insisted that peace con-
versatiOns begin at once caused
sensation in political circles.
Announcement was made that Gen.
ROmer's party was authorized only to
confer with the bolsheviki on the
question Of an armistice. This was in
line with the understanding that pre-
vailed when the Polish emisSaries left
this city for the front.
The breaking off of the negotiations
was due to a misunderstanding, &C.
cording to the contention of the Rus
sian soviet authorities in a wireless
dispatch received here.
The latest communication from the
soviet suggests the negotiations both
for an armistice and for peace be held
in Minsk today.
1t asks that the Poles send a dele
StlllOIl ~ 4hllloh 1hNCSlCu Win GA AiiS
necessary credentials to negotiate for
peace.
The Poles contend that it will be
physically impossible for them to COM
ply with this proposal.
Officials of the American consulate
have packed up their most important
records for prompt shipment from this
city in case the Russian bolsheviki
continue to advance. The task of Wis
ing the passports of the hundreds
who desire to leave Warsaw will con-
tinue until the consulate is forced to
close.
Outgoing trains for Vienna, Posen
and Danzig are crowded, and seat res
ervations are selling at a large pre-
MUM. People are fighting to gain
entrance to the station platforms and
rush for places to sit or stand as soon
as the trains back in. A close guard
is maintained by troops, who inspect
all persons to see that no soldiers de-
part until they bear proper creden-
tails.
While the Polish delegates are re-
tracing their steps homeward from
Baranovitchi, where the conference
with the bolshevik ended so abruptly,
the bolshevik troops are reported
everywhere to be pressing their at
lacks on the entire battle front from
the East Prussian line on the north to
the region adjacent to Lemberg in Ga
licia on the south.
Inside the great battle are the
Poles are hurriedly preparing de-
lenses. particularly trenches and
barbed-wire entanglements in front of
Warsaw.
Many Americans and British sub
tects, including a number Of former
officers, are reported by the recruiting
officers TO be enlisting in the Polish
volunteers.
London, Aug. 6-The British gov
eminent is irritated over what 1t be-
lieves is soviet Russia's equivocatiOn
over the British suggestion that the
Russians halt at the armistice line of
demarcation in Poland and begin
peace negotiations.
1t has dispatched sharp note to
the soviet government demanding a
YES or no answer as to whether that
| government intends to listen to the
| suggestion.
The note, it is reported, contains no
| threats and is not in the nature of an
ultimatum, simply requesting a quick
answer as to what soviet Russia in