The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-16

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fighting on the Radimin-O Okunieff line,
which is five miles from Warsaw on
the eastern side of the capital.
Labor is Against Intervention.
[By Henry Wood, United Press Staff
Correspondent
PARIS, Aug. 16.-Labor throughout
Europe was on guard today to prevent
the continental nations sending aid to
the Poles in their war with the boil
sheviki
Following the lead of British labor
ties, the Belgian workers at Antwerp
refused to handle munitions being sent
General Wrangel in the Crimea and
the Swiss railway mems union sent
"a committee to consult the director
general of swiss railways with fe-,
gard to refusing transportation OF
w;E materials.
Social democrat senators and depu-
ties of Czecho-Slovakia approved the
governments declaration of neutral
ity in the Russo-Polish hostilities, and
urged establishment of diplomatic re-
lations with Moscow as well as rigid
control of Russian reactionaries with
In the boundaries of Czecho-Slovakla.
II was announced at Rome that Sig
nor Daragona, socialist, would be sent
to Moscow to conclude an alliance pc
tween the soviet Russian and ltahaa
labor considerations. Farley P. Chris
tensen, the American farmer-laDor
candidate for president, cabled BRUSH
labor his party's CONGRATULATIONS on
the laborites successful Intervention
to prevent military action against Rus-
sia.
French socialists adopted resolu-
tions declaring neither money nor war
material should be sent to the ala
of Poland.
Under eombardment.
LONDON, Aug. ia Berlin dis
patch to the Daily News today said
Warsaw had been under lombard
ment by heavy guns since frloay.
However, the bombardment was not
mentioned in dispatches sent direct
from the Polish capital.
Armistice Negotiations.
rBy A. L. Bradford, United Press
Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-With the
red armies reported almost at the
gates of Warsaw, state department |
officials and diplomats here today |
waited hopefully for word from the (!
armistice and peace delegations at |
Minsk which would stop the fighting |
between Poland and soviet Russia.
Officials hoped that an agreement |
~ Minsk on armistice and peace |
terms would save Warsaw from the
armies While there was |
skepticism here as to the permanency ,
of any peace with soviet Russia, 1t |
was believed Poland may have .
chance of surviving as a nation only |
If the Poles retain their capital. In |
nossession of Warsaw, the bolsheF1k1
would Immediately sovietize Poland /
and make that country a passaseway
10 Germany. military men beloved. !
state officials and militia " OBJ /
servers here had not lost hope. row
aver of the Polish forces stiffening
and successfully repulsing the red
armies The Poles are now appar-
.ntIv falling back to their lat line
If defense marked by the circle :un-
in, through Novgeorgievnsk, resGow /
and Ivangorod.
,ere axpected to get an answer from !;
President "llSOu llllS' WON ~ @
recent appeals for food and other sup
1lies. ,,.,. +
# France. expressing approval OF the
mer,can stand on the Russo-Polish
,risis as stated in Secretary OF State
-olbv's recent note to the Italian am
,assador. has been received and prob
,bIy will be made public today
City is Surrounded.
BERLIN, Aug. 16.-The russians
have surrounded Warsaw, their lines I
being on all sides of the city, at \
radius of about twelve miles, accord 7
Ing to dispatch to the Berlin Nor
genpost today The fortress OF Graud- l
enz was reported to have fallen hf
fore the reds assaults Is