The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-08-03
(By FRANK cHARLToND

Nll N. y. cable lIultOr,l
New York, Aug. 3-1'he Russian cen,
tlai soviet government has completel,
revealed its hand in the breaking orr NJ
! arhllstlce negotiations with the Poles
rs reported in official advices IN ~,
>fr%ench % foreign office today. WV
mere Is every Indication that Rus.
SIa ueslres TO impose her will on Po.
iana ana dletate her own peace term,
without akied interference wbi,e th'
powerful bolshevik army is smashins
IT'S way through Poland and Is drayins :
eloSer r day by day to Warsaw. the
Polish capital. INV
Russia wants to enter into direct
PIace negotiations with Poland whiu
discussing armistice conditions.
Mnether the break off in the tru
parIey VIII result in complete Y
Iapse; or whether the Polish end !
VIII pe empowered to discuss NIL Z;
W., VIII NOT pe known until the Warsaw
government has been consulted y The
world should Know the answer ev;thin
few days "''"'h
The morale of the Polish army seems
10 nave been broken. The French for.
eIgn OFFICE which is Polands best
friend In continental Eurone. admit G
that the attempted Polish counter @T'',,ss nss
lensiVe has failed. The reds, flushed
WIN WIN victory, are rolling down through
noIahd with amazing speed. The adj
vanced units of the bolshevik army
we're we're reported less than forty miles
mighty rG 'he enoiro,is roiish capital today. A
progress and Warsaw is being sur
rounded Already Russian troops lie
southeast, east, north and northwest Of
one city' The First and Fourth Polish
asrIilies' the mainstay of the northern
front. are reported in retreat, with the
russians pouring through the gan to-
wards the Bug river. e'P w.
:. At Mercy Of Russians.
IL Is likely that the Poles, reinforced
oE st Eoiuhteers viii make their last
north Of Warsaw ''''e'
Inc russians are at Mlava, sixty
miles northwest of Warsaw and ter
miles from, the old German border
Ihey have reached Ostroleke, sixty
III r,diIes que north of Warsaw. They have
which fell Sunday, and are pressing
westward from that base
, Neither Great Britain nor France "a
IN position to go to war in Poland's
;alq at this time and Poland seems to
90 ue AT me complete mercy of the Rus
It has been ten days since Russia
accepted sPoland's4 request for nm urnif-
stice, but with the exception OF a brief
tpll OF approximately twenty-four hours
ane att russians nave pressed home their
attacks over $50 miles of battle front
during all that time.
The bold and distant attitude as
sumed by the Moscow government has
caused much anxiety on the part OF
France and Great Britain. 1t threatens
TO upset completely the plan for a gem
eral peace conference in London. Great
Britain proposed that Poland, Finland,
itumania and the smaller states bor-
dering Russia be represented at the
London parley and that general peace
be arranged. Russia has given her re-
ply on the battlefield by continuing her
offensiVe against Poland to compel Po- |
land to acquiesce in peace terms before |
any general conference can be held
AS to Germany.
The great potential element I'm the |
situation now is the future attitude OF |
iermany. The German government |
proclaimed neutrality in the war be- |
wecn Russia and Poland and refused |
% allow the allies to send troops across |
iernan soil to the relief of Poland |
Russia has been conducting a fevcrish |
propaganda campaign with her wire |
ess upon Germany and there is said |
o he widespread demand in Germany
or union with Russia.
Russian troops have reached the old |
icrman border. but so far they have
crupulously refrained from entering
German soil
The German government requested
PERMISSION to send an army into East |
russia to protect her frontier but the |
lilies. taking alarm over the possibility |
" Russo German alliance, have re.
used to grant It, II is understood that
iermany, disregarding the refusal Of
he allies, sent troops into East Prus- I
In and they are being maintainetkthere
low.