Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-08-06

London, Aug. 5.-Among British
officials and diplomats of other ma
tons here undisguised anxiety is felt
over the Russo-P olish situation. One
official said:
"The situation is as grave as that
in August, 1914"
Leo Kameneff, president of the
Moscow soviet, is reported to have
sent a message to his government
asking that Russia accept immediate
ly the original British proposals for
an armistice with Poland.
M. Kameneff, it is said, sent his
message after he and M. Krassin, the
Russian minister of trade and COM
merce, had had very plain talk
with Premier Lloyd George and An
drew Bonar Law, government lead
er in the House of Commons, last
night. Up to the middle of this after
noon no reply had been received.
M. Kameneff and M. Krassin are
members of the Russian commission
which came here to conduct nego-
tiatiops looking to the restoration of
trade between Great Britain and
Russia.
Demand Armistice at Once.
In a statement in the house of
commons today in regards to last
evenings conference with the soviet
delegates, Premier Lloyd George
said he and Mr.. Bonar Law made
it clear to M. Krasin and Kameneff
that the immediate conclusion of an
armistice on fair terms was the only
course which would remove sus-
picion that the soviet government
was insincere in its professed de-
sire for peace and in its declaration
that it intended to respect the in
depedence of Poland. 49,
The premier added that he and
Mr.. Bonar Law also, made it clear
that, in view of the fact that eth
biographical Poland had been in
vaded, 1--WE would take effective
steps to remove obstacles in the
way of transmission to Poland from
Danzig of military supplies which
could be obtained from that quarter.
Make Six Miles Daily.
Warsaw, Aug. 5.-Russian soviet
armies driving against the Polish
lines defending Warsaw are mail,-
tanning an average progress of six
miles per day in the direction of this
city.
They are being held in the south,
however, and in some places are
being pushed back from the districts
east Of Lemberg, which is one of
the detectives of their present CAM
paign.
Today's official statement issued
at general staff headquarters de-
clares the Poles have retaken the
town of Brody, near the Galician
frontier, and have forced the bolshe-
wiki back into Russia in the region
of Radzivlov.
American aviators fighting with
the Kosciuscko squadron are bat
tling against General Budenny's
cavalry and infantry along the
Sereth river, where the soviet forces
have not made any headway. Parts
of this squadron were engaged all
day yesterday near Miklicze, where
they met Cossacks and bolsheviki
infantry. The losses suffered by the
enemy in this district were very
heavy, today's official statement say
ing 1000 bolsheviki were killed and
large numbers were wounded.
Russian bolshevik forces have
reached Ostrov, So miles northeast
of Warsaw, and Is miles southwest
of Lomza.
Lomza is Taken.
Lomza, an important city about
IS miles northeast of Warsaw, has
been taken by the Russian bolshe-
wiki after being defended for many
days by the Poles, according to an
announcement at the foreign Of
flee last night. Polish forces have
evacuated Brest-Litovsk, but hold
the forts west of the river Bug, and
further south the Poles have evacu-
ated Kovel and are withdrawing to
the line of the Bug river.
General Romer and his colleagues
on the Polish armistice commission
will go to Minsk today, to meet
representatives of soviet Russia and
attempt to halt hostilities between
the two countries. Credentials CIV
ing the commission authority to en-
gage in negotiations preliminary to
a treaty of peace, as well as to ar
range for an armistice, are being
prepared. This action followed the
return and report of the Polish COM
mission this morning from Bar
enovitchi