The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-17
GRIP OF RUSS
upon WARSAW
is TORN AWAY
Fed Armies Checked by Pol
ish Troops Under Command
of Pilsudski Citys Fall
Denied.
ADVANCE IN CORRIDOR
(By Associated Press)

tby associated PreSS)
WARSAW, 100 a. m. Aug. II The
Russian pressure upon Warsaw had
been relieved, according to the offic-
ial Polish communque just issued. The
statement reported that General Pill
sudsh directed the counter stroke that
effected this relief
The statement says the Bolshevik,
who had planned to cross the Vistula
southeast of Warsaw, in the region
of Maciejowice (35 miles from the
capitaD were forced back.
The right wing of the fourth Polish
army is breaking the soviet resistance
at Cock, 80 miles south of Siedlce,
took 200 Russ prisoners and captured
| one cannon and IA machine guns.
The communique adds that the
! Poles In following up the center
stroke to relieve the pressure on War.
saw have advanced along the entire
| northern front.
LONDON, Aug. 17-Warsaw is still
being held by the Poles, so far as
dispatches received here disclose the
situation. The latest soviet Russian
communique does Dot claim the city
is captured, while the Polish official
statement of Monday represented the
| defenders of the Polish capital max
ing successful resistance
Reports of the city's fall, announced
officially on Sunday by the Bolshe-
vik staff at Wilma, where the news
| was celebrated, according to a Kovno
despatch to the London Times, by a
great demonstration, are not con-
confirmed from any source and are
virtually discredited by the Times,
which alone printed them
| All special advices-none of which
however, are dated later than Sun
| day-concur in the statement that
| Warsaw was then held by the Poles,
who, according to some of these
| reports, were fighting so stiffly and
| successfully that the menace to the
| city was decreasing.
Russian attacks, however, were be-
ing constantly renewed and severity Of
| fighting was dealt upon by all de-
spatches, the struggle being said to be
especially fierce in and around Radz.
min, which has changed hands five
times and was last reported held by
the Poles.
Moscow Tells Of Retreat.
The Soviet forces are centering
their attack upon Warsaw in the re-
gion northeast of Novo Georgievsk.
the powerful Polish fortress on thu
| Fistula to the northwest of the capi-
tai. and along the line south-easterly.
it is indicated by Mondays Official
! statement from Moscow, received TO-
| day.
The communique reflects the recent
! Polish withdrawal on the southern
front and announces the occupation by
the Russians of Brody and Sokal,
northeast of Lemberg. The statement
reads: Northeast of Novo Georgievsk
and Warsaw fierce fighting continues
in which we flung back the enemy
with a bayonet attack and occupied
a Number of villages west of the river
| Vkra.
I'm east Galicia, after fierce fighting
on August IA, we occupied Sokal and
Brody. In the region of Tarnapol, our
| advance is developing"
The influence of French assistance
in directing the defense of Warsaw is
mentioned in some reports.
In the meantime, the Russian armies
are rapidly progressing through the
Polish corridor, and are said to be
within so miles of Danzig.
| Nothing is known of the peace mega
tiations at Minsk, beyond the state
ment made by Earl Curzon, secretary
Of state for foreign affairs, in the
house of commons yesterday in which
he said that it was known that peace
conversations were proceeding:
| Wants Precise Definition
Soviet Russia, through NJ. Kameneff
head of her trade mission here, has
asked premier Lloyd George for a pre-
else definition of the British attitude
toward General Baron Wrangel, COM
mander of AntiBolshevik forces in
southern Russia.
In long letter to the premier, NJ.
Kameneff quotes all dispatches which
were exchanged between the British
and Russian Bolshevik countries con-
cerning General Wrangel. beginning
with the despatch from Earal Curzon,
| secretary of state for foreign affairs,
to George Tchitcherin, Bolsheviki for
eign minister on April IA.
1t was this message which urged
termination of hostilities and the dis
bandment of General Wrangefs troops
on the basis of amnesty being granted
them.
Declares Britain Responsible
NJ Kameneff declares this dispatch
induced the soviet government to re-
frain from military measures which
would have rendered General Wrangel
powerless, and he seeks to show it
was British indecision relative TO Its
Russian policy which encouraged GIN
eral Wrangel and led to the present
situation and recognition by General
| Wrangel by France.
He intimates that Great Britain is
largely responsible for this recognition
being extended.
! Thousands of the citizens of Posen
have Joined in a great demonstration.
begging the entente nations to save
Poland. says a dispatch from that
city to the London Times.
/ This message, which was dated to-
day, makes no reference to the estab-
lishment of new government in
Poland, rumors of which have been
current here during the last couple of
days.
PARIS, Aug. 17.-Several successful
counter attacks have been launched by
the Poles against the Russian Boil
/ shevik armies which are hammering at