Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-08-27
BoISheviki Concentrate Forces
To Renew Offensive Against
Poles With Lemberg as the
Main Objective Point.
MUNITION FACTORIES
WORK NIGHT AND DAY
Remnants of Fourth Red
Army, Cut Off in KoIno Re-
gion, Succeed in Escaping to
East After Hard Battle.


Warsaw, Aug. 26-Russian soviet
reserves are reported being brought
up on the southern front in great
numbers. According to information
in the hands of the Polish General
Haller, reserves some distance be-
hind the bolshevist north front also
are being brought up.
The military authorities expressed
the belief today that although
crushed in the north, the bolsheviki
plan to renew their offensive with
Lemberg as the objective.
Germans Aid Reds.
General Haller said there were in
dications that armies of Russian
workingmen were being grouped at
various points for possible use
against the Poles, and that these
armies might be thrown against the
Poles at any time. General Haller
said there also were indications that
the soviet munition factories, under
German foremen, were working
night and day and that many Ger
man munition experts were being
employed.
Remnants of the fourth bolshe-
wiki army, which were cut off by the
Polish advance in the region of Kol-
TO, have succeeded in cutting their
way through to the eastward, after
a battle lasting 10 hours, according
to an official statement issued here.
The soviet troops carried out a re-
grouping maneuver and succeeded
in making their way out of the trap
which had closed upon them, but at
last accounts were surrounded by
more numerous forces of the fourth
Polish army.
Poles Flank Soviet Army. ~
On the central front the Poles have
carried out fanking movement to
the north and have occupied
Knvszyn, IS miles northwest of
Bialystok and Stawiski, u miles
northeast of Lomza. Occupation of
these towns, with the capture of
Kolno, completes the work of forg-
ing ring around the 18th bolsheviki
army. Other soviet forces have re-
assembled at various places and are
making repeated attacks in their at
tempts to break the Polish cordons.
At Lornza the Poles took 1000
prisoners and nine cannon and at
Bialystok 1000 prisoners and Is
guns. Among the captives is the
commander of the bolsheviki d;vis-
ion.
Poles Take Ostrolenka.
London, Aug. 26.-Polish troops
yesterday. after hard fighting, cap
tured the fortress of Ostrolenka, %
miles southwest of Lomza, and
forced a passage of the Narew river,
the Central News Warsaw CORE
spondent today SAYS it is officially
stated at the Polish capital
Fierce fighting in the Orie khov
district of the Crimea. continually
increasing in violence, is reported in
the Russian soviet official statement
OF Wednesday received here today
by wireless. d.
On the Lemberg front the soviet
cavalry has penetrated the, Polish
rear and reached the town OF Stryi,
the statement says. On the north
ern front the soviet retreat contin-
ues. The statement adds:
"In the Lomza and Bialystok re-
gion (northeast of Warsaw, we con-
tinue to conduct rear guard actions.
We have occupied number of vii
lagos north and east of Brest-
Litovsk. In the Cholm region local
fighting is progressing. -
"In the Crimean sector. in the
Kherson region, as the result of sue
cessful fighting in the past few days.
we are driving back the enemy to
the south and southeast In the
Oriekhov region fierce fighting con-
tinues, with growing intensity"
The northern Polish army is con-
tinuing to move up in the region be-
tween Sierpo and Soldau, near the
East Prussian border, and are
marching on Chorzellen, to the east
of Mlawa. to cut off the retreat of
the remaining soviet forces.
In the center the Poles have oc-
cupied Ostrolenka and Staviski, as
we'll as Kolno, and are marching OH
Ossowiec. In the south the Poles
have retaken Hrubieszow and the
Goth bolshevik division around Lem
berg is retreating to the southeast.
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