New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-04
W rsaw Claims
Kiev Is Taken;
London Denies
Fierce Fighting Is Reported
ON q l8O-Mile Front;
$4,000 Prisoners, 100
Heavy Guns Are Captured
Reds Shoot Down Women
News Causes Riots i'm Mos
COW; Populace Demand
a Change in Government

LONDON, May 4.-The announcement
by the newspapers in Warsaw that the
Poles have occupied Kiev is unfounded,
says a dispatch to "The London Times"
from Warsaw.
The Poles, however. have taken
Fastov, about forty miles southwest of
Kiev on the railroad. and are continu-
ing to advance, the dispatch adds.
WARSAW, May 8 (By The Associated
Press).-Polish forces occupied Kiev
Sunday, according to extra editions of
the newspapers here to-day.
General Pilsudski, Communicating
chief Of the Polish armies, led the
troops into the city, the newspapers
say.
Kiev is not mentioned in the latest
communication issued by the War Office,
which announces the capture by the
Poles of the railroad junction sixty
kilometers southwest of Kiev.
The communication asserts that fierce
hghtlng continues along the 180-mile
front, from the Pripet marshes to the
Dniester River, that $4,000 men have
been captured since the Polish drive
began and that still further prisoners
have been taken, but have not been
counted. 1t Is added that 100 cannon.
500 machine guns, three complete radio
stations, 100 locomotives, three
armored trains and one entire aero
squadron have been captured by the
Poles.
10000 Ukrainians Surrender
An official statement says that 10000
Ukralnlan soldiers who had been fight
ing under the Bolshevik banner have
surrendered.
Tie Bolshevik forces had made a
stand on the Dnieper River in opposing
th.. Polisa efforts to take Kiev Gen
er$l Pilsudski's men advanced on the
city from three directions.
Riots and uprisings among the SOL
d1ers are reported to have occurred in
Moscow upoR receipt of news of the
Polish successes.
The reports say there are increasing
demands for change sf government.
Chinese mercenaries were used by
the Bolshevlki to stern the eastern
sweep of Polish and Uk.ainian forces,
said Saturdays official cohnmunique. A
number of Chinese have Laen captured,
1t was announced.
Winnica and Zhmerinra, approx
mately fiftytwo miles southwest Of
Kiev, were retaken by tn. Poles and
Ukrainians after three DAYS of fight
ing. The Reds have been p.5heG across
the Bug River.
The Bolsheviki defended The towns
stubbornly, owing to their railroad i'm
portance and the great warehouses of
food. Neither Winnica nor Zhmerinka
was much damaged, most of the fight
ing occurring in the country districts.
Women Held as Hostages
1t is reported that when the Polisf,
advance began the Bolsheviki arrested
hundreds of Polish women and chill
dren in Winnica, holding them as
hostages until just before the Poles
arrived. The reports add that the Boil
sheviki also shot and killed a number
of women who taught the Polish Ian
guage in the schools.
The Poles and Ukrainians are meet
Ing the most stubborn resistance on
the entire front since their advance
began, but they are making Roadway
munique on the fighting.
"The fighting is particularly severe
southwest of Kiev and in the Bug
River region" the communicate says.
"a series of rivers northwest Of Kiev
is hindering the advancing forces and
the infantry and artillery are having
difficulty in keeping up with the
cavalry.
"In fighting just east Of Bendzczow
ten Uhlans in night raid captured 140
Bolsheviki and then took Bialopol.
Prince Stanslas Radziwil. personal
adjutant to General Pilsudski. was