The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-08-27

Eighty Thousand Captw
ed, 10000 Killed and
10000 Interned.


Paris, Aug. .27.-Eighty thousand
soviet soldiers have been captured
in Poland. 10000 killed and 10000
interned in East Prussia, accord
ing to the latest report received
from the French mission in Po-
land.
Moscow, Aug. 27.-(Via Wireless
to London. THE bolsheviki have
launched counter attack designed
to recapture Brest-Lit0vsk, it was
officially announced today.
I'VE are fiercely attacking the
Brest-Litovsk forts." an official
communique said. \
Warsaw, Aug. 27.-(By United
Press.)-"The victory Of the Polish
army does not change our attitude
regarding peace" Premier Witos
declared today In a statement re-
garding the Russo-Polish armistice
negotiations at Minsk.
"A durable peace. based upon
honorable and just conditions. was
and is the aim OF Poland. We dc
not seek to appropriate foreign ter
ritory."
Witos insisted that uninterrupt.
ed communication with the Polish
delegates in Minsk Is vitality nee
essary.
Press PesSimistic.
Warsaw. Aug. 27.-By the Asso-
ciated Press THE Warsaw press
is becoming pessimistic regarding
the Minsk peace negotiations. The
newspapers. with the exception ot
the Socialist press, express the be-
lief that the moment Is propitious
to "liquidate bolshevism."
The militarists are advocating .
continuance OF the war to compe,
the soviets to seek terms. Observ-
ers here say that they believe that
the public generally desires peace
and are hopeful that the Minsk ne
gotiations will bring q cessation oi
hostilities.
Fight for Brost.Litovsk.
London, Aug. 27.-The Poles and
Russians are fighting fiercely fol
the forts OF Brest-Litoysk, tht
strongly fortified town on the Bug
river, 120 miles east of Warsaw
. says the Russian soviet oficia
statement OF Thursday. received
here by wireless today. In the
Lemberg sector violent fighting i.
continuing with ductuating results
the statement adds. d.
Famine in Wake Of Retreat.
Berlin, Aug. 27.-United Press
Famine and desolation are fol
lowing in the wake Of the panic
stricken fight OF the bolshevil
, troops, who are crossing the from
tier into East Prussia by thou
sands. j.,
Many Of the men are accompan
led by their wives and children
whom they said they were forces
to bring with them or they woult
have starved to death.
Indescribable scenes are. beini
enacted along the border, accord
ing to DISPATCHES received from
press correspondents.
German officials established soul
kitchens to care for the starving
! emaciated Russians. Men, womel
and children, screaming and fight
ing, scrambled over each other il
the rush for these rations. "lik'
pigs fighting at food trough" on
correspondent said.
| Some of the refugees, not realiz
ing they could enter East Prussi,
without paying toll. offered hun
dreds Of rubles and their persona
trinkets for passage. =
Never Want to Return.
Hundreds OF the reds declar
they never want to return to Rus
sia, saying it Is impossible to max
q living there The widest rumor
are in circulation among the pris
oners. Word is passed from moutl
to mouth that a revolution ha
broken out in Moscow and tha
Lenine and Trotzky have bee1
slain. @
The German government Is nego
tiating with the entente regardin
the feeding and ultimate dispose
OF the interned Russians. Tenta
tive plans have been made to tax
them to Pillau and Swinemund
and then distribute them anon
the more habitAble former Russia
prison camps.