Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-06
WRANCE[ Forces !
DEC|MATE SOv|ETS
Drive BoIsheviki Across Dniepsr
With Heavy Losses; Generals
Outlook IL improving
LlTHUANIA SEEKS PEACE
BY the Associated Press


Sebastopol. Crimea. Sept. 6,--Tb.
fourteenth Bolshcvist army has been
driven across the Dnieper, after tnf.
fering severe losses as a result Of Gen.
cral Wrangel's successful counter NJ.
tacks. The Bolshevist forces, com. 7
manded by Commissary Eideman, wers
decimoted and forced to take cover
under their big guns across the Dnieper.
The Bolshevists are making =
stronger stand on the Taman peninsu,,
between the Black Sea and the Sen ~
Azov. where an expedition landed hv
General Wrangel wns driven out. y
Eideman's forces consisted Of IL. .OOo
infantry and 2100 cavalrymen. togethor
with rife division and 10000 troops
which attacked from the Kahovks
bridgchead.
The Soviet troops endcavorins to cor.
ncr General Wrnngel in the Crimea
and the Taurida region are estimated
at $4,000 infantry and $4,000 cavalry.
General Wrangel has GO, 900 men in hi,
fighting units.
Constautinople, Sept. Cry A, Ply
General Baron Wrangcl's forces have
made another landing at Soucigum
(probably Sukhum- Kalc), u port on the
east end of the Black sea. according 10
advices received here. The landing was
protected by the battleship General
Alexiev. -..-
The situation OF General wrnnrel',
forces in the region of Novorossisk IL
improving, say latest reports. General
Wrangel Is securing the co operation
of bands which resisted the British,
General Denikin's anti Bolshevik
troops and others year ago.
Warsaw, Sept. 5.--fBv A. P.)-Pro.
test to the League OF Nations against
attacks by Lithuanian troops upon the
Poles north Of Suwalki has been made
by the Polish Government. 1t is point
ed out that state OF war noes not
exist between the two countries.
Russian Bolsheviki are supporting the
Lithuanians in advancing into the dis.
puted region in northeastern Poland.
says an official announcement issued
here today.
In political circles the action OF the
Lithuanians is taken TO indicate prob
ably serious complications in peace ne
gotiations. as II Is virtually impossible
for Poland to reach an agreement with
the Russian Soviet Government regard
ing tho northeastern boundaries Of this
country without having an understand
ing with Lithuania.
Lithuania, in reply to the Polish
charge that Lithuanian forces had
crossed the Curzon boundary line with
out declaring war, throws responsibility
for the recent clash on the Poles.
The Lithuanians say they do not rec =
OgniZe the lines OF demarcation fixed
by Earl Curzon and Marshal Foch. but
ere ready to cease hostilitics and ncgo-
tiate a new line.
Paris. Sept. 6.--(By A. P.)--The
foreign Office announced today that 12S.
900 Russian Soviet soldiers are refugee
in East Prussia. The Allies are moi
satisfied with the conditions Of theil
| interment, the announcement said. ant
have asked their ambassadors in BerliF
to demand that Germany intern th'
Russians according to internatioua
usage.
The American commissioner in Ber
lin has been asked to Join the alliet
protest and has asked Washington 10
instructions.
Lithuania has suggested that peac'
negotiations with the Poles be held II
Mariampol, to the southwest OF kovno
it was announced today. Poland prob
ably will accept. according to tn
French foreign Office.
Fierce fighting is in progress arount
Hrubiezow. fifty miles southeast o
Lublin, according to the Russian Sovic
official statement of Sunday received
by wireless today.
The statement says: 'In the Brest
Litovsk region fighting continues wit
alternating success. Along the westcrr
Bug fierce fighting continues north ant
west of Hrubiezow and south of Sokal
We are advancing on IIalicz. ~