Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-13
Soviet Delegates
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Tomorrow.
FALL OF W4RSA W
NAY BE AVERTED
BoLsheuiki Drive On
and Take Mlalud;
Repulsed in South.

BY the Associated Press.
>WARSAW. August 13.-Polish COM
ntssioners. with authority to negotl-
ate a preliminary treaty of peace. eX-
pect to leave this city early Saturday
morning to meet Russian soviet dele
gates somewhere on the road between
Warsaw and Brest- -Litovsk. the for
eign office announced today. The
meeting, it was said, will take place
between 5 and o'clock Saturday
evening.
American and British newspaper
correspondents will be permitted to
bolshevik authorities having express
ed a desire that they be present.
The Associated Press will be repre-
sented with the delegation. and an
effort will be made to send daily dis
patches. either by the wireless telegraph
or by the daily courier to Moscow from
the scene of the negotiations
May Go to Minsk.
In this city it was announced to-
night that outgoing personal mes
sages would not be accepted at the
telegraph offices here. This is mill
tary measure to prevent the pos
sibility of news of troop movements
getting out. Besides this, the officials
wish TO devote all the wires to gov
ernment business, for the most part.
because of the crisis brought about
by the soviet advance.
After meeting the soviet delegates
on the road. the Polish commissioners
will probably be taken to MinSk.
where the formal peace conference is
expected to take place.
The two-man mission that went to
the front to inform the bolsheviki
that Poland wished to send peace del
egates returned here today. and there
9 inO n
than has been prevalent during the
past fortnight. High officials said they
considered the fall of the city now out
of the question.
The Polish mark, which has been
quoted during the Gast few days at
go for 81. took a decided turn for
the better today, rising to 175.
Effort to Back Army.
Every possible effort is being made
by the Polish government to support
the army facing the bolsheviki at
the gates of the capital. Sleeping
cars have been removed from all
trains except those running to Wen
ma. and the telephone system is being
devoted exclusively to government re-
quirements. Women are playing a
prominent part in all activities, many
society leaders supervising sidewalk
lunch stands at busy corners, where
soldiers are given food and drink
have taken the places of men in all
of Warsaw's commercial houses, the
war offices and other branches of the
government. More women are at
present employed than at any time
since the foundation of the republic.
Air Raids Part of Defense.
Air raids over the soviet lines along
the Warsaw front are a daily part of
the city's defense, aviators flying from
the Warsaw airdrome every twenty or
thirty minutes for the front. One
airplane caught fire when it was
starting on raid, the pilot and OBJ
server being killed and four civilians
were killed and six injured by the ex-
plosion of bombs when the plane
struck the earth.
Simon S. Askenasy. a member of one
of the oldest Jewish families in War
saw and professor of history in Lem
berg University, has left for Paris as
the second Polish delegate to the
league of nations. A branch of the
American Legion has been established
at the Hotel Monopol, in Posen, where
it Will remain to await Developments
John Campbell White, secretary of the
American legation here. will remain
in Warsaw as long as possible.