The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-08-24
FALLING BACK ON WHOLE
FRONT TOTAL DISASTER
IS THREATENING REDS
Warsaw Reports Capture
Of Town so to 75 Miles
From Capital

Warsaw. Aug. A.-The capture
Of Prsasnysz. 60 miles north O(
Warsaw and Mlawa on the Polish
frontier, Is miles northwest Of the
capital, 10 reported in the Polish Of
fetal statement issued last night
Tho bulk Of the 4th soviet army
and the entire 3rd cavalry corps
have been surrounded by the Poles,
the statement says
London. Aug. A.-ohlcid dis
patches from Warsaw say the Poles
have captured $1,000 prisoners. 200
guns and 1000 machine guns.
Retreat ON Whole Front.
London, Aug. "a. -(United Pressl !
Tho Russian northern army has
opened negotiations for surrender, j,
according to q report from Vienna
today. The dispatch, which was
unconfrmed. said the bolshevtkil
had sent q messenger to General
Sidorsh to arrange terms Of.
capitulation.
The bolsheviki arc now retreat,
ing along the entire 500-mile battlel
front in Poland, according to un-,
Official dispatches from Warsaw'
this afternoon.
General Budenny, whose cavalry
had threatened Lemberg for more
than a week, has Joined in the gem
eral red withdrawal. it was said.
Only seven partially effective bol-
shevik divisions remain within eth
nographic Poland. Six entire bal
sheviki divisions have been a.
stroyeds and eight others greatly
shattered. The Russian debsclo
appears to be complete.
President PiiyudsadB Grmy nn9
continued its rapid progress north
east of Warsaw and is nearing the
line Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Eight Divisions Wiped Out
Paris, Aug. 24.-CUnited Press)
Eight Bolshevik divisions have
been completely annihilated and
eight others reduced by half, ac-
cording to unofficial advices from
Warsaw today.
The Polish victory Is growing.
Prisoners already counted total,
more than 10000 and more than,
200 guns have been captured.
Only the fourth and fourteenth
Russian armies are still able to af-
ford real resistance. it was report
ed.
(The fourth army is fighting IN
the Lomza region and the four
lteenth on the southern 'front.'
The Poles have completely sur
rounded the Bolshevik fourth army
and the third. cavalry corps. ac-
cording to advices to the French
foreign office today,
The Polish army north OF War
saw has completely crushed the
Bolshevik fifteenth army and oc-
cupied Przasnysz (55 miles north
of Warsaw.
"The number OF prisoners 10 In
creasing, the Polish 18th infantry
, alone having taken 10000" the
statement said.
Reds Completely Crushed.
: London, Aug. 24.-(United Press
= The Russian defeat in Poland Il
so complete and overwhelming
that there is no possibility OF tn
t Bolsheviki reforming their shat
;, tered armies on Polish territory
: press dispatches declared today.
: The prediction was made that al
red troops would be elected from
: the occupied areas before the en-
: of the week.
Bolshevik prisoners taken t
date total more than ninety thous
! and, according to unofficial ad
h vices. Sixty thousand Of thes
D we're taken in the Warsaw area an
D the remainder in the Danzig CORR
4 dor.
J, In addition to the great number
of prisoners and huge stores Of ma
terials taken, the Poles have force
10000 Bolsheviki to take refuge !
East Prussia, where they will b
informed