The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-30
With Only Thirty Divisions Or
ganize Lemberg Counter.
Fierce Fighting as Soviet
Troops Try Encircling Move.
PEACE DELEGATES PRISONERS
BOlsheviki Even Seal Polish
Wireless Station at Minsk.
Preparations Now Under Way
to Move Conference.

Warsaw. Aug. 50.-While Riga has
been agreed upon by the Polish and
Russian soviet government as the
place for peace negotiations 1t was
said at the foreign ministry late last
night that no word had been received
from the Lelvian government regard
ing the Poles request for permission to
hold the conference at Riga.
Only Local Fighting Now.
Paris, Aug. s0.-MiIitary operations
in Poland seem for the moment at
least, to be limited to local actions
and Polish commanders are utilizing
the period of inactivity along the front
to regrouping their forces, which were
separated during the recent rapid ad-
vance.
Advices from Warsaw state a wire
less message from the Bolsheviki
commander-in-c to Moscow was
intercepted and that in it he made
protests against the sending of un-
armed reinforcements to the Polish
front.
Warsaw. Aug. so.-Preparations
were under way today to transfer the
Russo Polish armistioe negotiations
from Minsk to Riga. in Lathvia, fol-
lowing agreement between the two
governments
The Bolsheviki at first offered to
continue the conferences at some point
in Esthonia, but Foreign Minister
Tchitcherin finally acceded to the
Poles suggestion of Riga.
A conference of Russian and Polish
officials will be held in Brest- -Litovsk
before the transfer, which probably
made
The Polish official communioue to-
day described another Red attempt at
an encircling movement in the Lem
berg sector.
North of Belz (forty miles north of
Lemberg) desperate fighting is pro-
ceeding with General Budenny's cav
airy which has occupied Tysovce (22
miles northeast of Belz)." the state
ment said.
I'm the Bobraka and svirz sectors
I GO miles southeast of Lemberg) the
/ Poles repulsed several enemy attacks
destroying a number of cavalry squad
rons,
During the night of August 2e-27
General Pawlenko's army forced q
Lemberg) and is advancing north
ward"
Only Thirty Red Divisions Now.
General Rozeadowski, chief of staff
said in an interview that the Bolshe-
Wiki evidently are planning a counter
offensive on major scale in the Lem
berg region.
| Ahc DOlSneNlkl OBVIOUSLY Will moi
quit" he said. "Of the seventy divi-
| sions they concentrated against Po-
| land only thirty remain, but they are
| organizing new armies. especially Ga
licia, where they are arnling bands OF
peasants.
According to the latest authorita-
/ tive Information. the Bolsheviki are
| organizing a grand style offensive in
/ Eastern Galicia with fifteen divisions
where operations will resume theil
I regular course on the entire from
shortly"
Minsk, Aug % (via Moscow).-
Members Of the Polish peace delega.
ton, who came to this city to arrange
an armistice and negotiate a treaty
ending the war between Poland and
soviet Russia, have been engaged in Z
continual controversy with BolsheviI
officials since arriving here.
] Disagreements between the delega
tion and the soviet commissaries il
command of the quarters where the
Poles are virtual prisoners. have
reached bewildering proportions re
garding the use of a wireless plan
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