The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-08-13
WARSAW now In
STATE OF SIEGE
Fate of City Depends on Re-
suit Of Violent Battle
Now in Progress.
FIGHTING
Poles Savagely Defend Their
Position-New Army Be-
ing Formed at Posen.

Warsaw, via London, Aug. 13--A
violent battle on which the fate OF
Warsaw depends 10 raging over .
100 mile front northwest and north
fighting 10 In progress. The Poles
are retreatIng along the left hank.
A state OF Siege has beer pro.
claimed In Warsaw.
The Russians are reported 10 have
captured Pultusk, ,twenty-slx miles
north of Warsaw.
The Polish defenders Of Mlava, on
the Warsaw panxla railway. have
surrendered without fighting.
The city was surrounded by red cav
airy and the Poles could make no de.
fense.
RUSSIAN .detachments that outfanked
the left wing OF the Polish army north
west OF Warsaw are advancing toward
Plock on tho Vistula river.
Masses OF Russian reinforcaments
were thrown into the engagement on
the northern front In q desperate effort
TO break through. Two thousand fresh
ros ss on x nro esrs e % rshsa n. rse p
onrush
New Army.
(, A now Polish army is being organized
az posen.
The government 10 anxious over the
situation but has announced IL win re-
main In tho capital to the very last. All
possible volunteers are being flung into
tho battle by the Poles. They are being
mAAsed in tho last lines OF defense on
the northwestern and northern fronts
AZ points whore tho Polish left flank
gave away the, Poles retired so precipi-
lately that they lost contact with the
Russians, At other places the poiN
launched savage assaults and succeeded
In stemmlng the Russian advance.
Fierce fighting IL In progress around
Pultusk, where the reds are swinging
southwark In the direction Of Nasiolsk
ten miles south OF Pultusk.
Fighting Increases.
Fighting Ia lncrea sing IN violence or
the southern front but there have been
no important developments on the center
according 10 dispatches from field head
quarters.
Cen Budenny's cavalry army Ia act
Ing as the advance guard, II has
reached the line OF Radziecho- cholojow.
leaving the Infantry to follow.
Pressing Forward.
The determination Of the hoishevlks
TO press forward 20 Warsaw showed n.
self at various pointa along the battle
iine today. there being hand 10 hand
fightlnR IA many instances. The pOlna
Havagalg defended their poHitions, and
contested avery foot Of ground given up
to the invaders.
Fighting Was reported today within
thirty miles Of the capital, II was said
Pultiak changed hands several times,
and last accounts were that the hghting
was Roing on In the streets, The Poles
were holding the west hank OF the Ma
rev river At this point. beating on the
bolshsyiki from the north, and hurting
back other enemy forces which were
trying 10 cross the river
Warsaw hummed tonight with mill
tnry activity but only soldiers and Of
iicers were allowed on the streets. Prep
Arations for the defense Of Warsaw were
being made and lights burned until late
In the war offices and the foreign Of
fee. where affairs of state were being
discussed. The terms and conditions 10
be carried by the Polish delegates who
win meat the soviet representatives on
Saturday 20 discuss the peace prelimi-
narien were also being drafted.
II was decided late tonight that two
American and two British newspaper
correspondents, M well a. several Poles,
French, Italian and spanish journal
istA will accompany the peace deiega-
ton 20 the eastward on Saturday. Just
how long the delegation will remain A.
MinHk, or wherever the conference win
be held, Is unknown, but diplomats here
tonight said they expected the confer
enca would last four or fve daya
The commissioners with authority 20
negotiate a preliminary treaty on peace
expect 10 leave this city early Saturday
morning 20 meet Russian soviet dele
gates somewhere on the road between
Warsaw and Ilrest- -I4itovsk. the foreign
once announced today. The meeting, i
was HRld. will take place between ana
7 O'Clock Saturday evening.
Polish Successes.
Polish successes on the southern
front, where the Russiana have been
pushing for LemberK, are reported "
toniRht's official communique. The 70.
liAh cavalry and infantry have onsted
the boishevikl from RadElechon. These
towns are IN the district northeast OF
Lemberg and 10 the west and northwest
Of Brody. on the old Galician border.
Fighting IL continuing stiii further
south along the stripa. On the Huczacx
area).
The Associated Press win be repro-
sented with the delegation. and az
effort will he made to send daily dis
patches, either by the wireless tele-
graph or by tho daily courier. TO Mos
cow from the scene OF the negotia-
tions.