The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-08-23

reds are reported to be burning houses
and bridges and destroying railway
| lines.
ADMITS LOSS OF sREsT-L,TovsK.
Londsn, AUG. as.-Loss Of the
Lltovsk was officially admitted by
the soviet war office at Moscow to-
day. A boIshevlk communlque
wlreIessed Moscow says:
I'VE have abandoned 5rest-
| litovsk and territory In the vicl-
nifty Of Ostref and Viodova.
Nine cities Recaptured.
The recapture of nine important
cities from the Russians was reported
BY. the Polish war Office tonight The
Poles are advancing orr Btnlystok, RUS
sian great headquarters In the field.
The official statement says
"Mava, Rozan, Prasnysz, ostrof,
M,azowieck Bielsk. Brest-Litovsk,
by the Toles. We are advancing upon
Bialystok. We strongly hold the Bug
river line"
The Polish war Office make special
mention Of the fact that Gen. Weygand,
head of the French military mission,
participated in the Polish counter Of
fensive.
Gen. Pilsudski. through the war Office.
has Issued dramatic appeal. eXhorting
the nation not to rest until the last Rus
San has been expelled.
''Fhe spirit of our army is excellent"
the war office states. The Polish COM
munique shows that the Russians have
been pushed back till they are nov 100
miles removed from the capital. On the
northwestern side the Russians are
eighty miles away: on the north sixty
miles away and on the northeast 100
miles away.
German Trained Men.
Most OF the 81. 900 bolshevik prisoners
already counted were captured in the
territory northwest of Warsaw. includ
ing. the Danzig corridor. by the army
under command of the French general
Billotte. who formerly was chief Of
staff 10 Gen. Lyautey, resident French |
governor of Morocco. This army now
is most effective and is composed OF
German trained men Of Posen.
Another Polish army under command |
f the French Gen. Henry is striking |
toward Rialystok from Warsaw, cut
ling off the bolshevik retreat
Called to Mobilize.
The Russian communists in confer
ence at Moscow have adopted a reso-
luton calling upon all members OF the
party to mobilize Immediately for the
(Crimean) fronts, said a dis
patch from Moscow this afternoon to
London.
Retreat Under Pressure.
The soviet forces which have been
Lemberg from the east and
south have commenced TO retreat under
pressure due, Warsaw statement
says, to the continued Polish advance
along the entire central and northern
'ronts. At one time Gen. Budenny. the
niles of Lemberg. but has been thrown
back in a southwesterly direction. All
he Russians in this region are in full
'etreat.
Twenty-Five cannon were taken dur-
ng the advance on the central front
lent Pilsudsld, the Poles occupying
and Masowizeck, southeast OF
Iomza, and crossing the line OF the
Narew south of Bialystok. 100 miles
etreat continues in the general direc- ,
ion of Grodno and eastward. !
aThe Polish forces have been re- /
rouned into two armies for pursuit OF !
he Russians. the northern army under I
zen. Haller and the center army under 4
resident Pisudsk Z
1000 French Officers Aiding.
The French foreign office announced Z
oday that Gen. Weygand now ts chiet /
{ the Polish stan with full power. and
hat most Of the 1000 French ofhcers
I Poland are actually participating In
he fighting. n
The Polish peace delegates at Minsk :
ave reported that the soviet represen- n
atives are increasing in severity the
ublished peace terms. demanding now 4
nat 200. 600 Polish workmen he given I,
he arms the bolsheviki hope the Polish
rmy win lay down.
Corridor" Evacuated.
Berlin. Aug. "a. y. S.)-The Rus
ans have completely evacuated the
-arSaw- DanHg corridor. according 10
ivices from Marienwerder today.
Thousands OF Germans are reported IN
Cht from the Corridor and adjacent
rritoTy. The in-marchinE Poles are
I'D to have threatened death 10 Ger
ans In that region.