The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-13
COMMISSIONERS TO
LEAVE WARSAW WITH
POWER TO EFFECT A
FULL PEACE TREATY
Poland Will Send It's Pleni-
p0tentiaries to EndeavOr
to Arrive at Peace
Agreement

"MstVW, Aug. lz.-Posh commits.
sioners with authority to negotiate
preliminary treaty Of peace, ex.
pect to leave this city early satur-
day morning, to meet Russian soviet
delegates somewhere on the road be.
tween Warsaw and Brest-Litovsk,
the foreign office announced today.
The meeting, it was said, will take
place between s and : o'clock Sat.
urday evening.
Press Correspondent Invited
American and British newspaper
correspondents viii be permitted to
accompany the Polish delegates, the
bolshevilu authorities having express.
cd desire that they be present
After a meeting the soviet delegats
on the road the Polish commissioners
will probably be taken 10 Minsk,
where the formal peace conference
IS expected to take place.
The two-man mission that went
TO the front to inform the bolshevih
that Poland wished to send peace
delegates, returned here today ana
there is a more confident feeling in
the city than has been prevalent
during the past fortnight. High Of
ficials said they considered the fall
Of the city now out of the question.
The Polish mark, which has been
quoted the last few days at go for
81 took l decided turn for the bet
ter today, rising to 175.
Polish Women Active
Every possible effort is being made
by the Polish government TO support
the army facing the bolsheviki at
the gates Of the capital. Sleeping
cars have been removed from all
trains, except those running to Vi
emma, and the telephone system is
being devoted exclusively to gov.
ernment requirements. Women are
playing n prominent part in all acti-
vities, many society leaders super
vising sidewalk lunch at busy cor
ners, where soldiers are given food
and drink.
Hand to Hand Fighting
The determination OF the bolshevih
to press onward TO Warsaw, showed
itself at various points along tho
battle line today, there being hand
to hand fighting in many instances.
The Poles savagely defended their
positions and contested every foot OF
ground given up to the invaders.
Fighting was reported today with
in 30 miles OF the capital. 1t was
said Pultusk changed hands several
times, and last accounts were that
fighting was going on in the streets.
The Poles were holding the west
bank Of the Narew river at this
point beating off the bolshevih from
the north and hurting back other
enemy forces which were trying to
cross the river.
Warsaw Prepares for Worst
Warsaw hummed tonight with
military activity, but only soldiers
and officers were allowed in tho
streets Preparations for the de-
fense of Warsaw. were being made
and lights burned until late in the
war office and the foreign office
where affairs Of state were being
discussed. The terms and conditions
to he carried out by the Polish dele
gates. who will meet the soviet repre-
sentatives on Saturday in peace pre-
liminaries also are being drafted.
1t was decided late tonight that
two American and two British news
paper correspondents. as well as
several Polish, French and Italian
and Spanish journalists, will accom-
pany the peace delegation TO the
eastward on Saturday. Just how
long the delegation will remain at
Minsk. or wherever the conference
will be held, is unknown, but diplo-
mats here said tonight they expected
the conference would last four or
five days or longer.
The Associated Press will be repre-
sented with the delegation, and an
effort will be made TO send daily
dispatches either by wireless or cour-
ier to Moscow, from the scene OF
the negotiations.
Guarding Military Secrets
In this society 1t was announced
tonight that outgoing personal mes
sages would not be accepted at the
offices here This is u
military measure to prevent the pos
sibiity of news Of troop movements
getting out Besides this, the Off.
cials wish TO devote all the wires TO
business, for the most
mart because Of the crisis brought
about by the soviet advance