The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-28
Three Russian Columns Routed
at Brest-LitOvsk.
Pursuing Poles Have Retaken
Two More Cities.
RETREATING ARMY DECIMATEI
Chief Column of BOIsheviki
Caught at Short Range.
Only Fighting Now Where Poles
Catch Up With Enemy.

Warsaw. Aug. 2s.-TotaI Russian
losses on the Polish front from all
causes to date are $4,000. according
to an official communique issued here
today
THE total Bolshevik losses are 107.-
600 prisoners; $4,000 killed and
wounded. and 10000 interned." the
statement said.
Warsaw, Aug. 2s.-Three Russian
columns attacking Brest-Litovsk have
been routed and $50 men taken pris-
oners, the Polish communique today
stated. The battle on the north front
is nearing an end. the communique
said
Part of the Third soviet Russian
cavalry corps and a detachment Of in
fantry, according to the latest news
\frOm the northern front, are still west
~ kolno, near the East Prussian bor-
der, trying to fight their way thru
the Polish forces.
In the vicinity of Mlawa the Poles
took 5000 prisoners and captured
three guns.
Retreating Reds Decimated.
Polish artillery has decimated the
principal column of retreating soviet
forces on the northeastern front,
catching the Bolshevik at short range,
according to an official statement is
sued here.
More than 500 men, including two
general staff officers and eleven line
officers, have been captured.
Among the killed was the command
er of the fifty-seventh Bolshevik divi-
sion and his chief of staff Detach- !
nents of the Polish third legion divi-
sion, which are fighting east of the
Bug river near Brest-Litovsk have be-
come engaged in an energetic defen-
sive action in anticipation Of soviet /
attack against that city.
Repeated Bolshevik attacks in the (
region of Lemberg have been repulsed !
but fighting continues in the vicinity !
of Dzielwcon, as well as along the /
Hobrika and Swirz rivers. The situa-
2son on the northern front is without
chang the statement says.
Two More Cities Retaken.
The pursuing Polish armies have
retaken Ossowiec and Grajevo, to the /
northwest of Bialystok and are con- |
tinuing eastward toward Koritzyn. I
Sokolka, Gorodoc. MIanarewka and
kamieniets. and in the direction OF
Kobryn, east of Brest-Litovsk- In this /
region the Poles captured 1900 Rus |
sian soldiers belonging to the soviet
reinforcements.
ON the southern front around Lem (
berg, the Poles have reached the out I
Prezemyslany to the southeast of Lem /
berg.
$4,000 Russians Interned.
London. Aug. 28.-Only $4,000 Rus !
sian Bolsheviki soldiers have entered (
East Prussia and been interned. ac-
cording to an official announcement i
made in Berlin, says a dispatch to the Z
Exchange Telegraph company from 7
that city
The time limit for Russia's 'satis- I
factory" reply to the Anglo-Italian ]
ultimatum having expired last night /
interest centered today in. indication /
by the French government as to !
whether the answer received Thursday /
outfilled the requirements.
The Bolshevik note was being stud /
led in the foreign office and a COPY /
had been forwarded TO Premier Lloyd /
George in Lucerne. It was assumed /
that N identic note had been sent to /
Italy.
Reply Regarded as Insult
Altho the Russians withdrew their /
demand for establishment of a ''cfviI |
militia" in Poland as part of the peace !
! agreement with that country-the !
-S5{ncipal cause of the entente ultima {
%Ill-there was a disposition in some
Quarters to regard the Bolshevik COM /
municatiOn in the light of a studied I
insult to Great Britain and Italy.
In the more important matter of
establishing peace. however. it was !
believed this would be passed over and /
that the British government would
lend Its influence to bringing about
complete cessation of hostilities be-
tween Russia and Poland.
Only Little Fighting Now.
Latest advices from the war zone
indicated the Red right flank had
been withdrawn until il rested on the I
East PrusSian frontier west of Au-i
gustof tforty miles west of Grodno
and 40 miles northeast of Warsaw. Z
The principal Russian defense was /
being made on the line between Au- :
gustot and Grodno where the Reds
had the advantage of marshy. broken :
ground and ideal terrain upon which
fighting continued on the rest Of the
front.
Resume NIinsI< Conference.
Moscow (via Wireless to London). /
Aug 2s--RussO- Polish armistice ne
goiations have been resumed at Z
Minsk' 1t was officially announced /
here today.
The negotiations at Minsk are con
unued. the statement said. The
Poles have rejected our conditions but
nave offered no alterna tives- The
Poles are relying upon their victories /
at the front"
Willing to Move Farley.
Paris. Aug. 2S-Willingness to
transfer the Russo-Polish peace nezo-
uations al Afinsk to a neutral country +
IS expressed in a wireless message
from Moscow picked up by the Efffei !
tower station today.
The details of the soviet offer could
not be deciphered, however, the for