Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-08-26
Soviet Russians Put to Rout by
Poles Following Strategy Of
Foch and Weygand.
WARSAW APPARENTLY SAVED
Baron wransel Scores More victorie.
Over the Reds-Tennessee Legis-
lature Gives Final Touch to
Suffrage atification-Min-
orc and Operators Can't
Agree.
BY EDWARD W. PlckARp.

Once more French military genius
has triumphed over that of the Ger
mans. Following the strategy of Mar
shal Focb and General Weygand, the
Poles last week put to rout the invad-
Ing Russians who. If reports are to
be credited, are directed in their move
ments by former officers of the Ger
man army.
AT this writing the final outcome of
the struggle cannot safely be predict
ed. for the battle is still in progress,
but all dispatches indicate that War
saw has been saved and that the Dan
zig corridor has been cleared of the
reds. Rejecting the first suggestion
Of Foch and Weygand, that they give
up their capital and meet the Rus
slams behind the vistula, the Poles
adopted the alternative plan of their
French advisers. This was that all
advanced units should be called back
and heavy forces concentrated on a
short defensive line before Warsaw; !;
that the enemy should be permitted
to advance in open order and to Sin
f1ltrate," and that the Poles should
then launch counter-attacks with all
tEeir forces and with the aid Of
tanks. At this time the most ad-
vanced Of the reds were within few
miles of Warsaw. Within four days
the Russians were reported as flee
Ing In disorder along the front be-
tween the Vistula and Bug rivers, as
retiring hastily from the Danzig cor
ridor and as being pushed back rap
idly In the southern sector.
The Polish left wing. led by French
Generals Henry and Bllotte in per-
son. drove the Russians out of the fork
between the Bug and Narew rivers,
which is considered the key to the
defenses of Warsaw, and part of
this Polish force moved swiftly north
ward toward Mlawa, threatening to
cut Off the reds who had advanced
far on the roads to Thorn and Plock,
and regaining control of the direct
rail route between Warsaw and Dan
zig. Airplanes. tanks, armored trains
and artillery were used by the Poles
most effectively and thousands of pris-
Oners and great quantities of supplies
were captured.
General Pilsudski chief of the Pol
ish state, led the troops operating east
and south of Warsaw. and this move
ment was considered of the greatest
Importance because its complete sue
cess would result in the cutting of the
lines Of communication of the boil
sheviki. This force was strengthened
by the shortening of the front in Gal
icia, where the Poles continued re-
treating for the purpose Of releasing
many units for the battle to the north.
BY Friday Pilsudski was in possession
of Lukow, Al miles southeast Of War
saw, and was going strong
The two movements Of the Poles
concentrated pincers operation
which promised to force the Russians
altogether out of Poland. The latter,
flushed with their successes, seem to
have forgotten the basic principles of
modern warfare and rushed ahead
without regard to their communica-
tions and supports, as though against
q foe that was already utterly beat
en-. Large bodies got entirely out Of
touch with the main forces and were
easily cut off and captured after they
had been allowed to filter through the
Polish lines.
One thing that greatly annoyed both
Poland and France was ule action of
Sir Reginald Tower, allied high COM
missioner at Danzig, in forbidding fur
ther debarkatiOn ct that port OF