Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-09

the message stated
Soviet forces striking westward from
Brest -Iitovsk, in their great encirclin 8
movement. have cut through the Polish
lines and crossed the railroad running
between Sokolow and Siedlce. They reach
cd point west Of Sokouw but were there
oounter-attacked and violent fighting Is
proceeding, tho statement declares In
this counter-attac the Poles have taken
some prisoners
Bitter fighting ~ reported northeast of
Warsaw where several villages have chang
cd hands n number Of tunes. hut tho
enemy has made no gains Rnnan, about
three miles southwest of Ostrolcuka. was
taken bv the Bolaheviki Yesterday but
now iR IN the hands Of the Poles There Is
heavy fighting along the Rug River from
Drohicsyn tu " lodpiiuier -Ewolyn, where
the Bolshcvkl arc being held In the fight
ing along the southern front tho Poles
have. in general. the advantage
London. Aug o-RuaHian Bolshevik
troops have broken into the town Of
Sok0low, about 40 miles east-northsast
Of Warsaw and have captured several
points south of Brost-litovsk. according
to an official staterpcnt issued in Moscow
Yesterday and received here by wireless
At Makalin, "A railroad junction on the
Bug river, about four miles southeast Of
Ostrow, the Bolshovlki havu beatcu of
fierce counter-attacks by tho Poles. the
statement SAYS II adds that Soviet troops
on the northern front are successfully
advancing toward tho Nercw River.
In the direction of Sicdlce and Iukow
the fighting with alternate success con
tintleS. the statement saws
On the southern front Bolshevik forces
debouched along the river Bug on August
;, striking the Polish lines from Clodaya
To karvtnki village advancing to the town
Of Nladmlr-N Nolhvmsk and developing
their advance south of that town In the
TarnopoI region in Galcla the Bolshevkl
have driven back the Poles to the upper
reaches Of the Stripa river.
Along the Crimean front fighting IS
proceeding favorably TO the Soviet army,
the statement says.
London, Aug S-British workmen held
meetings in many towns of the country
today, notably at Liverpool, Glasgow
Manchester, Nottingham and London
and protested against war to help Poland.
A feature of the London meeting was the
presence of several representatives of
organizations of former soldiers.
A general strike in all the principal
organized industries was advocated IN
resolutions passed at several meetings.
London, Aug, o Field Marshal Sir
Henry Wilson, chief of the Imperial
staff of the British army Admiral
Baron Beatty, commander OF the grand
fleet, and Marshal FOch, conferred at
Hythe relative To the Polish situation
until an early hour this morning accord
ing to central news dispatch, 1t IS
learned the allied naval and military ex-
perts are in complete accord regarding
plans for checking the westward advance
of the Russian Bolsheviki ii is said
There is IA possibility immediate naval
mobilization will be ordered to enforce a
strict blockade of Russia and that France
will cooperate In this movement.
Berlin Aug S.-Reports received in
official quarters here indicate the German
Nationalist movement IS gaming momen-
tum rapidly in the province of Posen and
Is finding adherents among the Polish
elements which heretofore have ardently
championed the annexation of Poscn to
Poland
This is considered one reason why the
Warsaw government had decided not TO
go to that city when it is forced to aban-
don its capital.
London, Aug. 9.-The Bolshevik mill
tary authorities have established Soviets
in the parts of eastern Galicia under their
occupation it is stated in an authorita-
tive dispatch received here