Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-24
RUSSIANS MAKE q
EFFORT TO SAVE 1
ARMY REMNANTS
Retreat Along East Prus-
sian Border Has De-
veloped Into Panic.
POLISH FORCES VIRTUALLY
ESTABLISH OLD BOUNDARY
Officers of Routed Hordes Are
Attempting to Restore Order
With Revolvers.
INTERN sOvIETs IN RUSSIA
1000 Cross Border and Are Dis
armcd-Hcavy Fighting Near
SOldan and NIlawa.
INTERN sovIETs IN RUSSIA
1000 Cross Border and Are Dis
armcd-Hcavy Fighting Near.
SOldan and Mlawa. '

WARSAW, August 23.- Russian
Bolshevist forces are reacting yir..
tually along the whole line in an
effort to save the remnants of the
Red army, but they have so far been
easily frustrated by the Poles. A
dispatch from Berlin says at leaat
$4,000 Reds have been captured.
The Lokal Anzeiger's correspondent
on tho Russian front reports that
the Russian retreat along the East
Prussian border has developed into
panic under pressure OF the Polish
cavalry Herds OF cattle, cavalry and
Infantry are intermingled in the
fight. officers and commissaries arc
trying to restore order with their
revolvcrs. Some OF the regimcnts
have thrown away their weapons.
Army In Full Retreat.
The correspondent of the Tage-
blatt at Prosken says that the hrst.
Russian army is in fun retreat in thes
direction OF Grodno. The staft of
the fourth army and all the revo-
lutionary committees have evacuated
LomZa. whose Inhabitants had formed
a militia force in the service of the
revolutionary government, which is
also in flight. Lomza was pillaged
before the evacuation.
1t is reported that strong Russian
reserves are stationed MT Grodno and
being sent forward to Bialystok. The
Lomza- -Bialystok- k-Brest-Lltovsk rail-
way is in the hands Of the Poles;
consequently retreat in the south
eastern direction is impossible. The
revolutionary committees have fed
from Grajevo and other places.
dispatch late tonight from
Koenigsherz. East Prussia, says 1000
Russian Soviet soldiers, with their
equipment. have crossed the German
frontier in the region OF Willenberg,
East Prussia. They were disarmed
and interned.
On Western boundary.
The Polish armies tonight had prac-
tically e-established the battle front
along the Western boundary OF their
nation. as defined by the Paris peace
conference In 1919
-I.itovsk. the key city of the
central portion of tho frontier, was
occupied by the Poles. according to a
dispatch from Warsaw. The occupy
Ing army also took all OF the forts
close by the city.
Toward the northeast tho Poles
were officially reported to have cap
tured Mlawa, RoZan, Przasnyz, Ostroy
and Mazowieck, and are advancing to-
ward Bielystok. Bielystok Is the chief
city of the northern area ascribed to
Poland. 1t Is within twenty-five miles
of the Versailles boundary line. Ma
Zowieck is within twenty five miles
of Bielystock. ts
On the extreme south of the line in
front Of Iemberg, the Russia cavalry,
led by General Budenny, Is reported
to have been checked.
The Polish forces operating against
the cavalry forced n retirement Gem
eral Budenny can retreat less than 100
miles before crossing the boundary
line onto Russian territory.
On the north there is heavy fighting
in the region of Mlawa and Soldau.
Forced to face with two Polish arr
mics. one advancing from Modlin ana
the other from Graudenz, the Bolshe-
visits arc making desperate efforts to
extricate their advance guard, some
OF which adventured as far as Eylau
ana Plonsk. The Red losses In prison
ers in this region have amounted 10
1000 In tho past two days.
The attempt of the Reds to break
the Polish lines on the Przasnysh- Ma
kov-Rozany road and cross to Narew
River, has completeiy failed. Polish
troops advancing up tho right bank
OF the Narew, threw back tho Bolshe-
visits TO the north. Meanwhile the
main body OF the Poles. advancing
from Warsaw. occupied all the terri
tory in she fork of tho Bug and the
Narew.
Bolshevists Only Chance.
The only chance OF the Bo1shevi.tsa X
to open passage in the direction
of Ostrolenka and Lomza, SO as TO
get through to Bialystok and Grodno.
Tho Polish troops accordingly arc
fastening their march towards Os-S5
trolenka and Lomza.. while the Polish
cavalry, which has reached tho upper
waters OF tho Narew. has already CUT
the road between Lomza and Blaly-
stok.
The battle now beginning on the
middle Narrow is likely to decide the s
fate of all ths Red forces between Il
the Narrow and the Prussian g.ontisy =
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