Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-06
WRANGEL'S FORCES
IN BETTER SHAPE
Make Another Landing at Black
Sea Port Lithuanian
Breach Widens.
y Associated Press to Every Evening

By AEHOffatfi Press 70 Every Evening
Constantinople, Sept g. General
Baron Wrangel's forces have made
another landing at Soucigum probably
Sukhum-kale). port on the east end Of
the Black Sea, according 10 advices re-
ceived here The landing was protected
by the battleship General Alexiev
The situation Of General Wrangers
forces in the region Of NovorissIk is IN
proving, say latest reports General
Wrangei is securing the cooperation Of
bands which resisted the British, General
Denekines anti-BOleshcvik troops and
Others a year ago. Cossacks fourd loot
ing or requlsitioning are prom pity hanged
by order Of the commander, and the dis
eiplinary measures IN force are creating
good impression.
Warsaw, Sept. 6.--An attack on Polish
forces by the LithuanIans with machine
guns and artillery in the region of SeIny
thirty-five miles northwest II GrodnO. IS
announced in Polish reports from the
northern front. The reports declare the
attack was unproyoked, and that the
Lithuanians had received orders 10 occu-
py Augustowo.
The Polish press comments on the
Lithuanian action as unexplainable. as
the provisional frontier between Poland
and Lithuania has not yet been reached
by the Poles The latter couterd that the
Idthuanians are occupying several 10
calities on the Polish side of that frontier
II is also announced that the nego-
tiations regarding the frontier ard the
future relations of Poland and Lithuania
have been broken off and that the Polish
delegates are returning TO Warsaw.
ta41 a rrfFz-
sion which went TO Kovno a month ago
to confer with the Lithuanians II is said
the supreme council has been informed
that the Lithuanians propose new line
of debarkation running through Marg-
grabowa. Augustowo and Szuezyn-
1t il understood the Lithuanian gov
ernment' places the responsibility for the
hostilities upon the Poles. asserting that
the Llthuanians were compelled TO de
fend themselves. The Poles on the other
hand. declare the Lithuanians opened
fire first
Warsaw, Sept. 5.-Protest to the League
of Nations against attacks by Lithuanian
traops upon the Poles north of Suwalki
has been made by the Polish government.
IL is pointed out that a state OF war does
not exist between the TWO countries.
Russian Bolsheviki are supporting the
Lithuanians in advancing into the dis
puted region in northeastern Poland,
saws an official announcement.
In political circles the action Of the
Lithuanlans Is taken to indicate the prob
ably serious 3complications in peace
negotiations, as IL IS virtually impossible
for Poland to reach an agreement with
the Russian Soviet government regarding
~ y.
understanding with Lithuania. Reference
to Bolshevlk support of the Lithusanian IS
the first official announcement TO this
effect.
Warsaw, Sept 6.-Lithuania in reply
to the Polish charge that Lithuanian
forces had crossed the Curzon boundary
line without declaring war. throws re-
sponsIbility for the recent clash at Seiny,
to the east of Suwalki, on the Poles.
The Lithuanians say they do not
recognize the lines of demareation fixed
by Earl Curzon and Marshal Foeh, but
are ready to cease hositilteS and negotiate
a new line.
Sebastopol, Crimea, Sept 5.-The
fourteenth Bolshevist army has been
driven across the Dneiper after suffering
severe losses as a result OF General
Wrangels successful counter attacks The
Bolshevlst forces were decimated
The Bolshevists are making a stronger
stand on the Taman peninsula, between
the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, where
an expedition landed by General Wrangel
was driven out. The Bolshevist brought
up reinforcements taken from reserve
regiments or half regiments of Moscow
and centers near the Polish front.