The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16

As soon the Polish war, which
 Is considered . purely Russian
 business, has been finished, a note
 will be sent to Berlin, they de-
 clared, demanding permission to
 transport troops across Germany
 for the French campaign. Upon
 refusal of this request, which is
 taken for granted, n revolution
 will be instituted in Germany, the
 success of which the bOIshevik as-
 serted they were prepared to as-
 sure by force of arms.
 With this end in view Russian sol diers who have been told that all wars shall cease with ultimate victory over the Poles, are being subjected to a viz orous propaganda which declares that Frenchmen will be shot on sight, but that the Germans are friends who soon will become comrades with the bol- sheviki.
 CONFIRMED
 These admissions have been corrobo- rated by information gathered by the correspondent in conversation with German representatives of East Prus- sian newspapers who had interviews with the bolshevik army chiefs at the front.
 The bo1shevik leaders declare
 that within three weeks they will
 be in complete control of Poland.
 including the Polish corridor,
 which they intend to occupy, leav-
 ing n ten-kflOmetre neutral zone
 about Danxig.
 When the correspondent reached here after surreptitiously crossing the border at Czerwone and employing the aid of Poles and a farm wagon filled with straw, he called on the Polish soviet commissary who recently was established in office by the bolsheviki. Hans Scharnewsky, the commissiary, is Polish Jew with protruding eyes and a blond mustache, and wears, a white collar. He acknowledged the cor respondent greetings and then sat down at his dinner table. completely ignoring the American.
 At the cornmissary's side through out the meal and during the correspon- dents visit, a Russian soldier armed with revolver stood watch, and the conye. saIion was interpred to him ifl Russian. The correspondents assis- tant, who was a former German of flcer, said this Russian was a soviet officer who watched all business trans acted and reported to the soviet central government, although he never inter- ferred with the commissary'sj proceed nre.
 COMMUNICATION NIL
 There is commerce with the rest of Russia by telephone, telegraph or railroad, and the inhabitants of villages along the frontier have been existing solely on the products of the farms. They declare unless commerce is soon re- vived with Germany they will experience great suffering.
 When the correspondent was unable after several hours to reach Scharnsw- sky. again he prepared to depart, but m orderly from the commissary's office di- rected him to remain another hour, by which time a high official was expected to arrive. The correspondent ignored the crder
 The Polish peace delegates who will confer with the Russian soviet repre- senatives at Minsk were expected to ar rive in that city late last night.
 The Polish -bolshevik battle line to- day covered about 700 kilometres ex- tending from the Rumanian frontier northwest to the Russian border. When the bolshevik offensive began five weeks ago, the line was approximately twice 700 Kilometres and was quite irregular.
 The front stretches diagonally across Poland. It is slightly bowed in the centre with buckle in the Warsaw sector, where the bolsheviki stand just on the other side of the capitals pro tectors Slight gains for the bolshe- wiki were announced today in the ex- treme north on the Russian right ano in, the south where the Poles are re- adjusting their lines for the purpose of shortening the front.
 Near the Prussian frontier where
 fC0ntfnued on rnge TwO)