Republican farmer., 1920-08-06
WARSAW IN REACH
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Populace Fleeing From Polish Capitol As the Bolshevik A r m e s Cross the Bug River Americans Get Ready to Leave Moscow Peace Farley Inter- rupted.

Paris, Aug. 4-Polish, French and British military experts at Warsaw telegraphed here last night stating that Warsaw must be evacuated with in two or three days. Polish experts report that the Polish army along the Bug river, which was Warsaw's last line of defense, retreated so precipi- tately that they did not destroy the bridges behind them.
 The capital probably will be moved within a few days to Cracow.
 A special Russian cavalry corps. the military men reported, was driv- ing southwest along the border of the AlIenstein district and had yesterday reached a point 30 miles from Mlawa, 3I miles northwest of Warsaw, on the only direct railroad to Danzig from the Polish capital These cavalry men were said to be headed through Mlawa into the Polish corridor to the Baltic, nearby, and thence to Pomer- ania.
 AMERICANS PACK UP.
 Warsaw, Aug. 3-Officials at the American consulate have packed their most important records for prompt shipment from this city in case the Russian Bolsheviki continue to ad- vance. The task of vising the pass ports of the hundreds who desire to leave Warsaw will continue until the consulate is forced to close.
 Outgoing trains for Vienna, Poseni and Danzig are crowded and seat res ervations are selling at a large pre- mium. People are fighting to gain entrance to the station platforms and rush for places to sit or stand as soon as the trains back in. A close guard is maintained by troops who inspect all papers to see that no soldiers de- part unless they bear proper creden- tials.
 FARLEY OFF.
 London, Aug. 4-Postponement of armistice negotiations between Po- land and Soviet Russia is viewed here as creating a difficult and anxious situation likely to involve the abandonment of the proposed confer encea between representatives of the Allies, Poland, the Russian Bolshe- wiki and the Russian border states for the settlement of the Polish ques- ton.
 London newspapers take widely divergent views regarding the Bol- shevik attitude in demanding nego- tiations for peace coincident with the arrangement of an armiStice. Some declare the action of the Soviet gov ernment is perfectly justifiable and reasonable, while others indignantly denounce it as evidence of deter imitation to allow the Bolshevik arm ies to reach Warsaw and there die tate terms equivalent to complete surrender of the Poles and the en- forcement upon them of a. Soviet form of government. In the latter quart CTS it is stated one of the Soviet armistice conditions was that the Poles must disarm, give guarantees that they would not receive military aid from the Allies and undertake not to renew aggression against Russia"
 SHOOT WHITE COLLARS.
 Allenstein, East Prussia, Aus. g. ANreats by the Russian Soviet forces t4xecute instantly any civil or mili- taN subjects of the allied powers who crosS the frontier are reported by refugNs arriving here from the re zion tAhe east being occupied by thu Russians. This has caused the in terallied commission in this distric to announce that no person will, fol any reason, be permitted to enter th' Russian controlled zone.
 These refugees declare that tn Bolshewiki are shooting all landown CTS and property holders, and other suspected of having money. Tn wearing of white collar, they de clare is sufficient evidence for death warrant
 SBAf;! BRITISH NOTE.
 London, Aug. 4-The British gov ernment is irritated over what it be lieves is Soviet Russia's equivocatio over the British suggestion that tn Russians halt at the armistice line 0 demarkation in Poland and begi peace negotiations. It has dispatche a sharp note to the Soviet govern rent demanding yes or no answe as 10 whether that government in tends to listen to the suggestion.
 TAXING HOSPITALS. Cracow, Poland, Aug. 4-(Polish Thousands of wounded soldiers ar taxing hospital facilities here an doctors and nurses, exhausted by lon vigils are often dropping beside th operating tables. The America Red Cross has opened an improvise school for nurses and 300 women G,