El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-04
EVACUATION OF WARSAW
ORDERED; MOVE TO CRAC0W


ticuIarly trenches and barbed wire
sutanglements in front OF Warsaw.
Activities on the northern front in
dicate that the BOlsheTikt plans in
clude an encirciing movement against
Iona, which IS OF strategical i'm
portsnce IN the defence Of Warsaw
According TO last accounts the
soviet forces are endeaToring TO drive
directly west along the Prussian from
tier. and II the drive Is continued II
would endanger WarsaW's main line
to DanZig.
According to accounts from the
north, the village populations ana
school children have turned out ana
are helping the soldiers BY carrying
food 70 them and aiding in every way
possible wherever the soldiers are
The American Relief association.
which has food and clothing valued
Il sA.o0o, 600, IS shipping i TO morn
md other safe points. In a week
time the association. VIII have most o.
its materials out OF Warsaw unless
there IS a shortage Of cars
Cavalry Unopposed.
Berlin. Germany, Aug "A DIS
patch TO the Zeitung am Mittag from
MsrisnWerder,1 West Prussia reports
il as the intention Of thu BolsheFlki
to enter the Polish corridor at its
southeastern outlet.
The frontier here, It says, IS only
fndiffsrently protected by Poiisn
guards, while Russian advance cav
airy Is forging ahead unmolested,
Russian officers are quoted by the
dispatch as declaring that soviet
Russia proposes TO restore the old
Russian boundary and drive out the
Poles rom the corridor.
Messages report that IN the Boil
shsvik army lootfng IS punished by
death while for other oftenses hard
labor Is the penalty.
special advices from MarienWerder
state that the Russian fourth army,
operating near the East Prusslan
frontier. IS continuing its flanking
operations. moving mainly TO the
ssoutWest- Several squadrons OF Boil
sheTik cavalry are reported 70 be
proceeding along the frontier toward
the vest Russians occupying Iomza
ere nassinE forces before Ostrolenke.
an important railway center on the
NareW river.
Soviet army leaders are said 20
have decrsed the death penalty for
violations Of the German frontier.
Large stores Of military supplies
and food are reported to have fallen
into the hands Of the bolsheTikt
when they entered Ainsk-
Z. S. Officials Concerned.
washington, 2. 9, Aug with
tas desperate plight Of Poland en-
phasized IN dispatches fcreshadoTing
the imminent IAN OF Warsaw, and
telling o. the proclamation If Polish
districts Of a soviet government the
position OF the United States toward
the swift development OF events IN
Europe today engaged the serious
consideration Of government Off
Gals
Despite reiterated appeals 70 the
United States by Poland for e-tsn-
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there has been no disposition SHOWN
among officials TO reflect a depar-
turs Of the United States Of its neu-
traI position
Officials have held that inasmuch
a. the conflict originated from
causes to which the United States
uzs not party, this country should
er the United States might be moved
TO depart from this position in the
event Of anything approaching
crisis IN the relations Of Russia to-
ward Europe officials RETAINED from
indicating
recalled, this country was moved TO
take a hand for Poland in insisting
that Czecho-SlovalIia impose no OBJ
stacles 70 transportation through her
territory Of supplies destined for Ro-
land This action, however, was de-
plies were purchased from this coun-
try by Poland prior to the outbreak
Of hostflities with Russia
Latest Information as TO military
operations received by the depart
ment indicated that Biaiystok, north
east q warsaw. has been lost The
Red army was reported 70 have
passed Bransl. southeast Of Biely-
The department dispatches also IN
dicztsd that the Polish lines had been
stiffsned- The adTices contained a
report that two BolsheFik cavalry
divisions had been concentrated near
Szczucin, considerably to the south
Nzrew river, due west OF Bialystok,
the Bolsheviid were said 70 have
made progress
Americans Ask Aid
New York. Aug. 4.-TWenty-fiv
Americans maroOned in MOSCOW
have appealed 10 the state depart
msnt through the charge daffaires
in Stockholm for aid in returning to
the United States, It was stated by
two members OF the Jewish Joint dis
trfhution committee on their return
from Moscow The Americans told
them, the commissioners said. that
while other governments had ar
ranged for the return OF their citizens
from Russia the United States had
done nothing for marooned Ameri-
cans.
Under Russia,s communistic gov
TO distribute American relief supplies
through a commission named by the
soviet government