Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-08-27
POLISH WOMEN CO
INTO ARMY NOW
POSEN CIVILIANS, AGE II TO so.
PREPARE AND DO GET
INTO WAR.
TRAIN BOMB PLANES ON REDS
Neutral Aviators See Red Company
Blown Up by One Shell-Take
$4,000 Captives-Russians
Nearly Annihilated.

POSEN.-Heavy fighting is going
on around Ciechanow. northwest of
Warsaw, due to efforts of the Poles
to cut off two Russian divisions that
entered the Danzig corridor
All civilians in the Posen district
from to 80 years of age are mo-
hilizing. 1t is stated 10000 fresh
Poles will be ready to take the field
within month. Women are drilling
with the men, Twenty-Five members
of women's battalions have been cap
tured
The Poles have just equipped three
squadrons of bombing airplanes of
10 machines each. Bombing machines
already are in action. Neutral avia-
tors who accompanied the expedition
behind the lines say they witnessed
a bolshevik company blown up by
one bomb.
Dissatisfaction here with the situa-
ton resulted in opponents of the gov
eminent, drawing up proclamation
declaring Posens independence of
Russia and Austrian Poland. A men,
Der of the government arrived and
secretly conferred with those who
drafted the proclamation and reached
a compromise.
Officials say there is still much
discomfort prevalent. Posen is crowd
ed with refugees from Warsaw
Troops leaving for the front include
many youths some not more than Is
years old.
Poles Advance.
PARlS.-ln the principal theater of
operations on the Polish front the
Poles are advancing toward Brest-
Litovsk. They have reached the val
ley of the middle Bug, prisoners taken
aggregating 10000. Many guns with
their carriages, were abandoned.
Reds Defeated.
WARSAW.-The Ibolshevik armies
northwest OF Warsaw, between the
Vistula and Prussia, are sending wire
less appeals for help Whether these
troops realize that the Polish northern
drive threatens their communications
Is uncertain from the intercepted mes
sages which repeatedly have asked
bolshevik headquarters for ammuni-
ton and supplies.
Reds Worsted.
WARSAW. The Russian bolshevik
forces are making a desperate effort
to recover virtually along the whole
line in an effort to save the remnants
of the red army, but they have so far
been easily frustrated by the Poles.
Poles Retake Two Towns.
WARSAW Lomza, Is miles north
east of Warsaw and Bialystok, so
miles east of k1omZa, have been re-
captured by the Polish armies, says
an official war office communication
Wednesday. r
In the remaining occupied sectors
in the north the bolsheviki are CROSS
ing the Prussian frontier in great
numbers. In this region the 18th and
SD bolshevik divisions have been
! smashed and all of the Fifth and
Fourth have been taken prisoner.
The Fifth Polish army alone, oper-
ating on the northern front, has ac-
counted for more than 10000 prison
ers, including the staff of the 18th
and the Fifth and Fourth divisions
says the communique.
Peace Terms Remain Same.
WARSAW.-It is not believed here
that the recent Polish military sue
cess will materially change the pro-
gram of the Polish delegation treat
! ing with the Russ bolsheviki in
Minsk. The newspapers express the
belief that the basis of peace remains
as follows:
! First, Poland will claim only the
| territories inhabited by majority of
| Polish and Catholic population. The
soviet governments does not contest
this point.
Second-Poland will claim for the
| peoples once forming a part of an
cient Poland the right freely to de-
| termine their lot
Third-The declaration of the so
Wet government on these counts,
which often has been repeated but
never realized, must be guaranteed by