The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-12

Tor the cause of communism against
| imperialistic violence"
General Kameneff, formerly COM
manded the troops fighting Kolchak on
the eastern front and according to the
| soviet wireless 1t was as a result of
his victories in that area that he was
| promoted to his present command.
During the war General Kameneff
served under the car as chief Of staff
or the Is Russian army corps and
later of the third army. Joining the
Red forces In April, 1918, he was mill
tary director in the Smolensk area be-
fore he became commander of the
eastern front.
The Bolshevist army on the Polish
front Is reported to be divided into two
armies, the northern in command of
General Toucacheski, who is only 81
years OF age, and the southern COM
manded by General Yecoroff. Both
commanders were officers in the cars
army.
erusiIoff Heads Council.
General Brusiloff is known to be
chlef OF the military council at Mos
COW which has been preparing military
plans against Poland. With him are
: associated many of the general staff
officers of the old regime
One Of the most successful Boil
,shev1k officers Is General Buderny,
commander of cavalry, whose tactics
on the Polish front, according to mill
tary authorities largely have made
possible the Bolshevik successes In
| the south
JOHANNESBURG, East Prussia,
| Aug 12.-Reports that Mlawa, an i'm
portant city on the Warsaw-Danzig
railway was taken by the Russian Boz
| shevik on Tuesday and that Soviet
Warsaw, the fall of which was ex
pected Thursday. or Friday, were
brought here by a correspondent of
the konnigsberg Allegemeine Zeitung
| There have been no official dis.
patches indicating the soviet armies
boo +"k~n M1awa and most recent
advices from the fighting area have
sl-uNn TIE R"|sH ne 80
l1''0s from the Polish capital. ~
= who
are fighting with the Poles against
Xxi, are considered fair
game to kill" by the common soldiers
J OF the Soviet army, it is declared by
the correspondent, who says the Boil
are "bourgeoise and should be EXTERN
mated"
| CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug 12-BoI-
shevik forces in southern Russia arc
striking at the extreme flanks of Gen.
eral Baron WrangeIs army, north OF
the Crimean peninsula, according to
a dispatch received in this city.
Three Soviet divisions, totaling
5000 men, crossed the Dnieper river
on Aug. 7, at Aleshki, almost directly
across the stream from the city Of
Kherson, and advanced several versts
| southwark. Two Bolshevik cavalry
columns, supported by infantry, are
advancing southwark from Alexand-
rovsk, along the west side of the
railway leading south to Crimea. This
is on the southern end of the south
Russian battle front.
NEW YORK, Aug 12-Nearly 3,O00,-
| 900 American citizens Of Polish birth
or extraction have been asked to take
part in a nationwide demonstration
next Sunday in $50 cities to express
| gratefulness to the United States for
its policy toward Poland, it was an
nounced here today by the American
committee for the defense Of Poland
| At the same time delegates from
each of the cities will be named to go
to Washington on Aug. IS to present
resolutions to President Wilson and
Secretary of State Colby asking that
the United States adhere to its present
policy towards Poland.
LONDON, Aug. 12-Progress for the
Russians against the Poles on the
southern front was announced in We'd
nesday's official statement from Mos
COW, received today. Wlodawa on the
Bug south of Brest-Litovsk, has finally
been taken by the Soviet troops while
further southeast they have captured
Vladimir-Volynsky east of the Bug,
north of the old Galician border
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