Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-15
Red Army in Touch With
Capitals Main Line
of Defense.
GREAT GUNS SHELLS WILL
SOON BE FALLING ON CITY
Military Observers Expect Poles
I. to Halt Foes Drive Against
Nations Metropolis.
PEACE MISSION is AT FRONT
Delegation to Meet Sovicts Is Com
posed OF Leaders In Polish
Political Life.
Iny Assocla,ea presr.l

tBy Associated PrcsBl
WARSAW. August 1.-THE front
Is being gradually brought nearer
Warsaw. Before Saturdays dawn.
artillery flashes were visible against
the c!ouds TO the north and north
cast. and at times the bark OF can
non could be heard. People on the
roofs Of the hiehcs; buildings
watched the gun flashes until! the
early hours.
The BoAshevists are striving 10
reach the NIstula River, apparently
70 carry out their encircling move
ncnt upon Warsaw. from tho South.
Their objective liz I.emberg, where
there has been heavy nghiing -.
various points OF vantage and vii
lagos. Here ground has changed
hands repeatedly in the last few
weeks.
Large Shells Sent over
Brody. just northeast OF Lembcrg,
has changed hands time and again.
~ Lass accounts The Bolshevasts were
striving for Brody, after having been
oustcd by the Poles. ~ the ncnrcs;
point. the Holshcy!sis are about thir-
~ miles from Lcmbcrg, In a rough
country j. is reported that General
Buccnny the Bo!shcvist ca"alry com
niander, brought up several division
OF fresh cavalry recently 10 part.cI-
pate In the Lemberg drive and the
operations IN the region OF Lublin.
The Boshcvlsts are also reported 20
he reinforcing northeast Of the
fIcprz River, chiefly with infantry.
The Bolshevists threw over 77-m
shells 1T Intervals during the day
from what observers believed to be
German gun. Machine guns ratt!cI
and occasionally there was rifle Are.
TO the northwest. nearer Warsaw.
the Bo!shevists are using shells which
sound like 55s There is more ar
tiliery activity in the Warsaw secto-
than In any other part OF the line,
owing 20 the fact that the Reds have
been halted before the city and are
apparently bringing mp several big
guns.
Today's commun!quc comedies that
the Poles withdrew further in the
center Of the Warsaw front, assert
ing II was for the purpose OF rcgroup-
inls soldiers who have fallen back
upon the defense line less than
nineteen Kilometres out.
But even more serious than the ap-
nroach in that direction, according
10 observers. is the situation Eortu-
west OF Warsaw, where some o,OOH
Red cavalrymcn are making rapid
progress toward the Nistula The
cavalrys right flank. which follow.
the wing of the Prussian frontier. has
been re-enforced by Red infantry sol
diers who have rcquisitioned the
peasants horses and are following
closely upon the heels OF the cavalry
division.
Have TakeH All Precautions.
Tho Poles say that there Is chance
of the Bolshcvists crossing the
Vistula either below or above War
saw as the Russians have been doing
habitually for 200 years in taking
Warsaw from the west and that all
precautions in these sections hav.
been taken.
Warsaw's dcfenses extend from the
fortress of Novo Gcorievsk through
the fortress of Zegrjc through Radzy-
min. just beyond which the Bolshc-
visits brought UP artillery tocay,
through Ccglow to the fortress or
lvangorod. sixty kilomcters above
Warsaw on the Vistula. +?
In the westward drive the Reds.
crossing tho Bug River in the region
of Brest-Litovsk. occupied Sicnice
yesterday and Thursday reached
kaluszynn. just cast OF Warsaw.
kalnszynn is within gunshot distanc.
Of the line of defense.
Work to City's Rear.
The Russians attacking Warsaw
have worked well toward the rear of
that city's defcnses and are attack
ing Plonsk. within a dozen miles of
the Vistula northwest of the Polish
capital. according to Friday nights
official Polish communiquc, available
carly today.
The statement says the enemy is
advancing toward the Novo Geo.g:eysIl
Zcgrjo sector north OF Warsaw and
that masses OF Bolsheyists arc attack
ing Nasielsk (tweury miles
northwest of Warsaw, and Plonsk
(sixteen miles west of Nasieisk, and
Warsaw).
Tho communiquc announces that
the preliminary attacks upon these
places were repulsed by tho Poles.
Delegates on for Front.
Poland's peace delegation, consist
ing OF sixteen members. with mill
tary aides. clerks and strangers. one
of whom is aNwoman. prepared late
last night 10 leave for the battle