Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-08
boil SHEV|K TROOPS
. SMASH FORWARD
ON POLISH FRONT
Gain Successes at Several
Points-DefenSe Is Said
to Have Collapsed.

| WARSAW. July s (by the Associated
fressl Rolshevik troops. after sew
eral fruitless attempts. have succeed
/ ed In etfectine a crossing of the Bere-
sina In strong force near Navosialki,
| about nifty miles northeast of Minsk.
| It was announced in today's Polish of
! fetal communicate.
| smaller detachment forced the
Beresina south of Beresina village.
farther TO the southeast
Advance on Southern Flank.
| LONDON, July S.-Russian bolshe-
| vik~ forces have smashed their way
| forward on the southern flank of the
| Polish front and soviet military au
| thoritieS claim success in a series of
battles near Stare Konstantinov. to-
| ward which they are driving the
Poles, according to a bolshevik official
statement received here by wireless
| Soviet forces have reached Litit-
chev, twenty-four miles east of Pro-
| skirov. and have occupied Mohilev-
| Podolsk in their drive along the Dnie-
ster river.
| Heavy fighting is going on between
| the bolsheviki and forces commanded
| by Gen. Wrangel. on the southern
| front the struggle being particularly
intense in the region of Oriekhov. the
statement says.
ROvnO Capture Confirmed.
PARIS, July s.-Reports of the cap
ture of Rovno, one of the three IA
nous fortresses in western Russia, by
the bolsheviki are confirmed by
Polish official statement issued yes
terday and received here today.
| BERLIN, July THE Polish front
from the Pripet to the Carpathians
has completely collapsed and the stu
alton is most serious. the semi off
cial Allgemeine Zeitung says it learns
southwark from Kiev and Rovno has
met with only slight opposition.
A Warsaw dispatch to the Frank
| fort Zeitung says the bolSheviki have
to the north of the Molodechno-Po-
| lotSk railway.
At Old RussO-German Line.
| WARSAW, July (by the Associated
Press).-The bolsheviki in their advance
in Volhynia have reached the Klewan
| railroad junction, northwest of Kovno
| The Poles are withdrawing before the
| northwesterly drive of Gen. Budenny's
cavalry, in some places reaching the old
Russo-German fighting line.
The banks of the Styr and other
| rivers along this line are cobwebbed
with barbed wire and the hillsides are
| zig-zagged with trenches. while the
various elevations are dotted with
German steel and concrete pill
| boxes, and it is expected that the
Poles will elect to make stand along
| this defensive line.
Northwest of Rovno train to
which was attached the private car
| of Gen. Wharf, chief of the British
military mission, was shelled by Blu
denny's artillery. Five Polish refu-
gees on the train were killed and the
British generals car was damaged,
but none of his party was injured.
Socialist Proclamation.
The socialist party central commit
| tee today issued the following proc
| lamation:
when the Polish troops were ad-
vancing we demanded peace, but now
we ought to defend ourselves firmly
We appeal to the soldiers to fulfill
| their duty in defense of the country
against the invader. The govern
ment, however, ought to give guar
antees that it desires peace. declare
to the world that Poland desires a
just peace and address to the soviet
government proposals for peace ne
[ gotiatiouS,N