The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-08-19
CAPITAL
HEARS ROARING
OF RED GUNS
Pole Emmissaries Rush to
Minsk in Hopes Saving City
BY Armistice

Warsaw, Aug. 14-tAssociated
Press)-Polish peace delegates who
are to meet bolshcyiki Representatives
TO discuss an armistice and peace
left at dawn today for Minsk.
Automobiles carrying the delegates
streaEled out OF the capitol just as
day was breaking. They are sched-
uled TO PASS the frontier cast of Sic
dice before seven O'Clock TO meet
bolsheviki officers who will conduct
them TO Minsk.
Some delegates haev not been to
bed for two nights. A nights prep
aration with conferences preceded
the start.
Considerable baggage was taken In
additi On to the records and reference
books. Packages Of food, enough for
an extended stay were also carried.
General Listowsky heads the military
experst while among the Diet mem
|Nbers IS Stanislas Grabski. national
OF the Associated Press accompanied
Poles Still Confident
Warsaw, Aug. 14.-Rusians are
now facing at various places the War
saw defensive line along which the
Polish newspapers for days have been
insisting the enemy would be check
ed.
ON his line tho Poles are expected
to make their final stand and there
Poland's best troops are grouped.
Paris, Aug. 1.-THE inter-allied
re~parations commission announced to-
day Germany had been advised every
thing Is ready for an early meeting
| Of the coal commission at Essan as
provided in the Spa agreement. q
At Warsaw's Throat
Warsaw, Aug. 14.-tAssociated
Press)-The front Is being gradually
brought nearer Warsaw. Before Sat
I urday dawn, artillery flashes were
visible against the clouds TO the north
and northeast and at times cannon
could be heard.
People watch the flashes from
high buildings.
Todays communique comedies that
the Poles withdrew further in the
center, asserting II was 10 regroup
who haev fallen back o. the defence
line less than 10 kilometer3 out.
But even more serious, according
to the observers, is the situation to
the northwest, where 1000 red a
are IN liking rapid progress toward
the Vistula. The cavalry right flank
which follows tho right wing OF the
Russian frontier has been reinforced
by infantry who have requisitioned
peasants horses.
Say No Chance
Poles say there Is no chance OF the
bolsheviki crossing the Vistula as the
Russians have been doing for two
hundred years In taking Warsaw
from the west and that sll precau-
lions have been taken. 1t is estimated
II will require several days before
the reds from the northwest reach
the river. Meantime, newspapers con-
A~A IL. q. 2AaanAn a. AZ a
To Fight to Last
London, Aug. 14.-President Pill
sudski In receiving q delegation Of
Warsaw citizens today declared that
the government was decided to full
fill it's duty to the end. He said tho
capitol would be defended until the
last extremity.
Poles Advise Reds
Warsaw, Aug. 14.-(Associatcd
Press)-Prince Eugene Sapieha, Pol
ish foreign minister, last night sent
q wireless message to M. Tchicherin,
the bolshevik foreign minister, an
~nouncing the Polish peace delegations
intention to cross the front Saturday.
He said the party would be coposed
Of some thirty technical experts and
nLg,tastSd THAT a special party 1f
journalists representing both the old
and new world should accompany II.
NJ. T~chicherin replied: Your dele
cation will be met. Every facility for
communication will be granted"
Capture SOldau
Berlin. Aug. 14.-(Associated Press)
Russian bolshevik forces captured
Soldau on the Warsaw-Danzig r1il-
road about 10 miles northwest OF
Mlawa, Friday night. II was learn
ed today. The city vas only slightly
damaged. Poles are reported TO be
retreating to the northwest.