Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-23

strtlcted TO insist upon an honorable ana
durable peace.
Paris, Aug. 23.-Soviet Russian armies
which invaded Poland and threatened to
capture Warsaw appear TO be on the eve
OF complete disaster, says the Warsaw
correspondent of the Matin. He quotes
General Weygand as saying Poland will be
the grave Of three fourths of the Boil
shevik army.
Two Polish cavalry divisions are adj
vancing toward Bialystok for the evident
purpose of cutting off the retreat Of Soviet
troops operating TO the north of Narsaw
The correspondent declares the BOsheviki
will soon be forced into hurried general
retreat and that discipline has broken
down in their ranks.
German workers at Danzig have
established Soviets and have seized the
docks preventing the landing of supplies
for Poland, according TO a report from
that citv. The German commander of
the port is said TO have refused to assign
moorings for the French dispatch boat
Accra and the cruiser Gueydon.
Sir Reginald T. Tower high commits
sioner for the League of Nations at Dan
zig. has refused TO take any responsibility,
declaring he must await instructions from
London.
He has requested the allied nations to
supply him with 10000 troops before he
will permit the unloading of munitions.
II is the belief of the French govern
ment that 5000 additional troops will be
enough as 1000 are already there.
Posen, Aug. 21.-Reports from country
towns indicated that volunteer detaGh-
ments are being formed among Polish
citizens, women joining the eolors with
their husbands and brothers. Children
are drilling in the streets. The purpose Of
these forces will be TO police the western
frontier.
Interest in the formetion of volunteer
forces is increased by reports that the
Bolsheviki have been re, Giving muni-
tions from East Prussia -Four trains
loaded with coal consigned to towns In
east Prussia were turned back and it is
alleged machine guns were found con-
cealed in them. All shipments from Ger
many are now receiving unusual attention
from frontier customs officials.
Constantinople. Aug. 22-All leading
Moslem religious authorities in Anatolia
have approved proclamation broadcasted
in Anatolia, declaring the principles Of
Bolshevi.m are identical with those of
IsIamism because biased on democracy"
1t calls on all good moslems TO accept the
tenets of Bolshevism.
Halide Edib Hanem the famous Turk
ish woman reformer who fed to Angora to
evade arrest by the British and TO par
ticipate in Mustapha Kemal Pasha $
Nationalist movement, definitely rejects
Bolshevism for Turkey. An Angora dis
L 4 r.. l. e 4 l.,
Mustapha Kemal cabinet have formed the
nucleus of an anti-Bolshevik party which
is greatly in the minority She said: Dol
shevism was forced upon Turkey un-
willingly. Russia being the only nation
recognizing Turkeys right to live"
Berlin, Aug 22-The Allgemeine Zei-
tung. owned by Hugo SHINES, the German
industrial magnate, said today that the
Russian-Polish peace negotiations at
Minsk would be gravely jeopardized un-
less Russia's terms were revised.
Belief that Germany's position, both at
home and abroad has been made worse az
a result of the weeks occurrences is ex-
pressed by the pan-Germanic Deutscher
Zeitung.
One Polish infantry division alone took
5000 prisoners and 10 guns.
The Soviet forces which have been
menacing Lemberg from the east and
South have commenced to retreat. At
one time General Budenny, the Soviet
cavalry leader, was within nine miles of
Lem berg
Twenty-Five cannon were taken during
the advance on the central front under
the personal command of President Pill
sudski The Poles crossed the Narew,
100 miles northeast of Warsaw. The
Russian retreat continues in the general
direction of Grodno and eastward
The Polish forces have been regrouped
into two armies for pursuit of the Rus
slams, the northern army under General
Haller and the center army under Presi-
dent Pilsudski.