New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
Poles Capture
Fourth Soviet
Army, Staff
prisoners to Number of
"a, $3.50 and 426 Machine
Guns Among Booty Taken
in Encircling Movement
A d vance From Ida
Occupation of Wilma Near:
Wrangel's Forces Take
10000 More Captivcs

RIGA, Oct. (By The Associated
Press Military news from the Rus
sisn-Polish and Polish Lithuanian
fighting fronts is entirely overshadow-
ing the peace conference. Messages
received by the Polish delegation from
the Grodno-Iida sector say that virtu-
ally all of the Fourth Bolshevik Army
has been captured in an encircling
movement by the Poles and that all
the statf was taken, except the COM
nsnding general and the chief Of staff
Pr'soners to the number Of $3.50
were made, while 4o6 machine guns,
lee light field guns and as heavy field
guns were captured. Among the pris-
ohers was special detachment of
Pctrogrsd Communists and many tech.
meal men.
Thursdays reports showed the Poles
had advanced northward from Ida. re-
corded the occupation of Baranovitch
and announced that the capture Of
wilma was expected at any moment =
The Rolsheviki yesterday submitted
letter to the Polish delegation OBJ
lectlng to their delay in replying to
the Soviet preliminary peace terms,
NJ. Dcmbski, head of the Polish dele
gstlon. IN his answer. expressed the
nope that the secretaries shortly would
nS able to arrange another meeting for
discussion of the terms.
Soviet Fall Offensive Upset
WARSAW. Oct. l (By The Associated
Press no defeat Of the Russians on
we Polish northern front seems virtu-
q +
reported fleeing eastward in disorder
in an effort TO avoid being surrounded
b the Poles, who are in close pursuit.
The result of the Polish victory is de-
clarod by the military experts as elimi
mating any chance Of the Bolshcvik
launching the fall offensive which War
Minister Trotzky was credited with
planning TO ,.-ive back the Poles from
the territory they occupied after the
failure of the Soviet attempt to capture
Narsaw
hdvices rom the front report that
one Russian division surrendered to the
Poics after having murdered all the
cor, isSaries with it who tried to com
pei tho troops to offer resistance to the
Polish advance. To-Night's communiuue
declares the Bolsh eviki all along the
northern front were whipped unmerci-
fully. much to the disbursement Of
their commanders. The commander G.
the Third Bolshevik Army committed
suicide. it is asserted when he realized
that his command had been completely
smashcd.
South of the Pripet the Russians have
been pushed back across the river
Slutsch
Polish cavalry. operating in Vol
AI-Ts, has made rapid progress il. a
scutheasterfy direction and has occu,-
pied Novograd- Volynsk. about midway
between Lutsk and Kiev
Would Take 10000 More
PARIS, Oct l.~Forces of General
Wrangel have captured a large group
Of Russa Soviet troops in the region
of Alexandrovsk, according to an off
cial statement of Thursday on the fight
ing in South Russia, received here to-
day. Several armored trains and large
quantities of war material and rolling
stock were captured by the Wrangel
forces the statement says.
After six days of fighting we sur
.ounded the Bolsheviki in the regions
of Verkioyetsk, Paloyetf, Oriskhov and
Alexandrovsk, along $50 mile 'front.'"
the statement continues, "ca pturng
prisoners, enormous materials, cannon
and several hundred machine guns"
Wrangers Troops Take Kharkov
CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. 1-Khar-
kov, an important city in Southern Rus
sia, $50 miles north of the Sea of Azov,
has been captured by anti Bolsh evik
forces commanded by General Baron
Wrangel. The capture of this city, to-
gether with the advance of Polish and
Ukrainian forces west of Kiev, is CON
a. 1oJ ~