The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-07-23
POLAND ASKS
AID OF U. S.
Their Outlook Is increasingly
Menacing-Armies Pressed
Hard by BoISheviki.
RED INVASION is BEGUN
Soviet Troops Capture Fort
ress of Dubno-Foch Awaits
Word From Missions


| Washington, July 2s.--(A, Ply
Poland has asked the state depart.
ment to formally announce to the
Mor,o % me moral support" OF the
battle with the Russian bolshevIki.
The suggestion also was made
tnat similar expression from Pres.
Ioent Wilson would be welcomed,
and would do much to stlffen the
morale OF the Polish people.
The Polish government. through
made informal Inquiries, to deter.
mine the sentiment of the United
states with regard TO the forclno
Great Britain and France In slvinq
Poland military aid In the war
this afternoon.
The Inquiries thus far have been
N the nature OF "feelers," II was
learned. State department officials
refused TO discuss the matter.
Offer Armlstlce.
warsaw. July 23.-tA. P.)-Poland
ras sent armistice proposals direct to
the soviet government at Moscow.
The Polish messagt was short and 10
the point There was some delay In
d,spatching 1t. owing chiefly to bitches
In the organization of coalition cabi-
net, with the peasant party leader,
Wnos. as premier. 1t was decided that
frrther delays would be serious owing
to the situation beyond Biaiystok, and
decision was reached to send wire
less note to Moscow at once. A reply |
Is expected by Friday night.
The direct negotiations begun with |
the soviets are on the question Of an |
immediate armistice along the entire |
front of about 100 miles. The pro- |
posals were wirelessed after failure to
reach any definite conclusion In deal
ings with M Tchitcherin, the bolshevik |
foreign minister, through Premier Lloyd
George. OF Great Britain.
After these proposals had been dis.
PATCHED by wireless at o'clock this
afternoon by the national council of J
License new coalition cabinet was
'ormed under the premiership Of NJ.
" itos.
. The new cabinet has the support OF
he socialist party. NJ. Datzenskl, the
cad of the socialists organization. is
hc vice premier. Aside from these two
The Polish line today still ran to the
hanges the cabinet remains the same.
est St., Of Gro Grodno, it is ennoupeed p, in the
'as holding Immediately south OF the /
'fipet and in Polesa, but further down I
outh a breach in the line effected by I
oishevik cavalry is reported. d
Fortress Taken by Reds. $
Capture by SOVIET troops of the for
-ess of Dubno, one of the Volhyna c
roup Of Notifications defending the a
cunced in Thursdays official state :
ent from Moscow, received by wire =
IS today to London. it
The bolsheviki also have taken the
Iilway town of Slonim, seventy miles i
,,ltheast OF Grodno. and twenty five y
lies west of Baranovitchi Il
Foeh Won't Co TO Warsaw, {,
Marshal Foch viii not go to WARSAW n
Jless the report of the French and e.
itish missions now en- route indicates
% necessity of his presence and de- h
lopments show that military aid BY "
q allies Is required to prevent the a
'lsheviki from overrunning Poland, 1t W
la learned today In Paris.
Some hope is, entertained In official
relies that direct armistice negotia- tn
ms between Poland and soviet kus- se
. may make allied intervention un- OF
cessary. W
outlook More Menaclng. SC
london; July 23--The Polish outlook In
pears increasingly menacing to COM w
entators in this morning srnewspapers. .
,land l. only is extremely hard so
essed by the bolshevik armies, they bt
v, but her territory is already invaded be
le of the papers prints news purported so
have been received 10y the British mi
reign office which says the bolshevik ev
hit wing has occupied Seriny. north to
,st Of Grodno and about thirty miles ne
I'M the nearest point on the German
odno is confirmed and the Reds are w
10 reported to have taken Bielostok, sh
miles from Warsaw, while In the a
nth they have entered eastern Ca w
rhe ministry of Premier Grabski IL ,h'
ported to have resigned, with the ad- in,
nistration intrusted to extreme radi- "'
IS with the idea. It is said, that such qe,
government would be better able to co'
Ike terms with the invaders. II Is ~ ~
ted that preparations are being W
de for the evacuation OF Warsaw. oss
Emphasis is laid on the danger TO the OIL i
ice of all Europe by most Of the 10y 10y
vspapers. and the~antitolshevik pa WI
= see in the soviets advance de- 4
mination to destroy Poland. Another OF
r expressed Is that II the bolsheviki the
reach the eastern frontier roc
Germany Spartacist or monarchist
Ter Of which. they say. would be nj
ally fatal to the reconstruction OF A'
pistrust Germans.
n pers which have been consistently
rlstful to the Germans foresee that ,
military party of Germany not only ~
lid find In such a case an excuse ~
further delaying reduction OF the ma
hswehr and disbandment OF the On
guard, but would secure direct
Ol WIN INhHSlh | IN "A
te itself master of the bolshevik or
liza tion and Russia herself. /
II this plan Is carried out" says the 4
~ Mail Russia would become a r
man colony and all her vast wealth g.
man power would he at Germany's z
osai. The allies would have lost the r
re after winning the war" n
he Daily News. which Is not un-
ndly to the bolshevki. says the Sc Pc,
sness Is not less because of the fact Il
eastern Germany Is fun of arms Nd
ammunition dumps TO he surren-
ID 10 the allies. These finally will .nd
available for Poland she Is in n
ID. but supposing east Prussia Is and
ded." asks the newspape lis II 80 r.
ain the hosheviki won't get thcm?" ond
Polish Forces Retire.
e foush forces between Erodno ana and
DErudok- have retired. leaving the A
clear TO the German frontier. which Anr
ow believed to be the real ohjec- r
OF the bolshevik army in the north, Nor