The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-06
Battered Defenders of Poland
Given Brief Respite.
Wrecked Roads in Captured
Ground Delay Red Supplies.
COUNTER OFFENSIVES STARTED
Rumania Starts Drive Against
Soviet in Bessarabia.
Defensive Line East of Warsaw
Pierced by Invaders.

| Warsaw, Aug. 5.-(via London Aug.
6, 1890 a. Enthusiasts drive
/! against Warsaw has been checked
along the general line of the River
Bug, the war office announced today.
A counter attack has been launched
and is making progress. Victories
over the Bolsheviki also reported in
Silesia and in the province of Grodno.
THE Bolshevik offensive on the
River Bug has been arrested and the
Polish counter attack is developing
successfully" the statement said.
An earlier official statement said:
I'm the Brody sector (before Lem
berg) the situation is developing favor
ably to US"
The evacuation of this city is con-
tinuing. as q precautionary measure.
Rumania Into Contest.
Rumania has begun the concentra-
ton of forces in Bessarabia whether
this move is for the purpose of reliev-
ing the pressure against Poland or
to force the withdrawal of soviet
troops now on Rumanian soil, has not
as yet developed. A Geneva dispatch
indicates considerable Bolshevtki un-
rest n Rumania.
Conversations between the French
and British government relative to
steps to be taken to induce the Boil
sheviki to halt their attack, or to help
Poland, went on all day yesterday but
no officials announcement on the sub
ject has been made.
Warsaw Line Pierced.
Warsaw, Aug. 5.-The defensive
line east of Warsaw has been pierced
in several places, according to- reports
from the front Preparations have
been begun for transferring the gov
ernment if that move is necessitated
by the Russia advance. The officials.
however, still hope the soviet forces
will be checked somewhere east OF
the Vistula.
No announcement has been made as
to what place the government would
move to, but it is reported it would be
Posen- Czestochowa, 143 miles south
west of Warsaw, near the Silesian
frontier.
Of the developments along the east
ern defense line. the word from the
front shows that after a halt of sew
eral days while reinforcements were
brought up and supplies forwarded
along the river. the Bolsheviki forced
! crossings of the Bug at a number of
/ Ostrov, the soviet troops are reported
to have crossed the river in large num-
bers.
Outflanking the Poles.
Tonight's communique from head
quarters announced that the Russians
had forced the Bug in the region of
Droheizyn (about seventy miles east
of the capitaD. This being part of the
soviet movement to outflank the de-
tenders of Warsaw and push on
toward the Vistula. The Poles coun-
ter-attacked and fierce fighting is cor =
tinuing. Between Drohiezyn and
Brest-Litovsk. the communique con
tinues, the Poles launched a counter
attack against the Russians who had
/ crossed the Bug below Brest-Litovsk.
4 In the region of Brest-Litovsk, which
I is. in the hands of the Russians, they
| reco1led for an attack which compelled
the Poles 70 vacate Terespol, just to
i the west of the river
1 There was fighting at various points
/ to the south, but without gains for
the Russians
The soviet troops have been checked
/ IN their westward push along the
Prussian border the statement an
/ nounces- They have reached Mysz-
niecs in an advance apparently de-
/ signed to bring them to the Warsaw
1 Danzig railway. Military observers
/ outIlanking movement planned to en-
circle the capital. thus saving the
heavy losses which would result il
I Warsaw were attacked directly.
Russ Gains Conceded.
Russian gains are conceded north
and east Of Warsaw. where the soviet
| forces are regrOuping for what may
be the final drive on Poland's capital
In the center of the front bearing
down upon Warsaw from the north
east the Russians. according to the
communique. are being held along the
/ IOstrow-OzerwOny line to the Bug.
/ Owing to the desperate situation or
the front nearest Warsaw, the Kos.
ciuszko squadron. the air force com
posed for the most part of American:
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