New-York tribune., 1920-08-23
Soviet Army That Sought
to Cut OFF Danzig and
Warsaw in Complete
Rout; Losses Enormous
Budenny Aims to !.
Encircle Lemberg
Polish Troops Continue
Advance in Northeast:
Germans Among Dead

WARSAW, Aug. pa War Of
fee communication issued to-day re-
ports Polish successes on all parts
of the battle front, excepting on the
extreme right, where General Bu-
denny's detachments have crossed
the Dniester River and the Red ad-
vance guards have reached the Stryj,
on the railroad south of Lemberg.
Fighting is reported northeast and
east of Lemberg. Budenny is using
cavalry and infantry in an encircling
movement against Lemberg. At sew
eral points the Reds have been re-
PEELED.
Military authoritis here announced
to-day that the Poles have captured
$4,000 prisoners to date in their
counter attack. Many guns, thou
sands of rifles, hundreds of machine
guns and munitions carts and a
great number of horses also have
fallen into their hands. Thousands
of Reds are thought to be cut off in
the forests, awaiting the opportunity
to surrender.
Germans Found Among Dead
Among the 800 Bolshevik soldiers
killed in the fighting at Mlawa were
found, it is asserted, German officer
and several German soldiers.
On the northwest point, according
to the War Office communication, the
Reds who designed the capture of
Thorn and the cutting off of Warsaw
and, rDanzig. are in full retreat. The
Bolsheviki are reported to have suf-
fered tremendous losses and to be en-
deavoring to escape along the Prus-
sian border in fear of the Polish drive,
which is clearing Poland of Reds ali
through the northwest. More than 1O,-
ooo prisoners were captured on this
front Friday.
Advances northeast of Warsaw ars
announced. The Poles have reached
Ostrov, Czyzow and Bransk. At Mie-
tezyrzec 400 Cossacks surrendered.
Reds Repulsed at Brest-Litovsk
The Bolsheviki have attempted to re-
In the region of Dubienka, where thu
Poles pushed the Reds across the Bug.
the communication says that on the
bolshevlk side was a Jewish volunteer
detachment from Vladowa. The Poles
have captured Hrubieszow, which was
taken after an hours hand to hand
nghtlng in the streets of the village.
The Poles are still holding Hrubies-
zow, Notwithstanding the efforts of
the Bolsheviki to recapture it.
The Bolshevik armies northwest Of
warsaw, between the Vistula and
PRUSSIA, are sending wireless appeals
for help. Whether these troops realize
that the Polish northern drive threat
ems their communications is uncertain,
from the Intercepted messages, which
repeatedly have asked Bolshevik head
quarters for ammunition and supplies.
The Bolshevik wireless apparently is
not functioning properly, as headquar-
ters repeatedly has requested informa-
ton concerning the location of these
troops, the rear of which is endangered
by the Polish advances.
The vanguard of this Red army has
reached points about 100 kilometers
south of Danzig, in what is known as
Grape region around Graudenz that
the French officers advised the Ameri-
can typhus expedition to move to Dan
zig. This the Americans did.
American Consulate Moved
The American Consulate, which
moved from Warsaw to Graudenz when
ceeded to Danzig on the advice of the
French.
The Allied military observers COM
slider that the Poles already have won
victory in their present offensive, but
they say that the danger has not passed
entirely by any means. The Poles have
advanced rapidly at various points
where the Reds have retreated. Some
times the Poles are out of contact with
the enemy. In some sectors, notably
northwest of Warsaw, the Bolsheviki
are reported to be showing more Of an
inclination to fight.
armies, especially rapidly advancing
armies, always have difficulty in NOV
ing artillery and other heavy material
to keep pace with the constantly shift
ing infantry. They assert that upon
the rapidity of the Polish advance
north and northeast depends the fate
of the Red forces who have reached
the corridor" These Reds are roughly
estimated to have between 10000 and
oU,OoU cavalry.
Strategy Becomes Interesting
The observers say that If the Polish
drive continues and carries the Poles
to the Prussian frontier before it is
possible for the Reds to withdraw from
the Thorn region, a most interesting
situation will result--that the Reds
will be compelled to surrender or. IL
they have sufficient supplies Of ammu-
milton. they may endeavor to stand off
the Poles indefinitely, meantime at
tempting an encircling movement
which might take them across the Wis.,
tula in the Posen district and threaten
Warsaw from the west
The Foreign Office Saturday evening
issued the following communication
with regard to the negotiations be-
tween the Poles and the Rolsheviki at
Minsk:
"The Foreign Office received satur-
day cipher radio dispatch sent by
way Of Moscow. This was No. 3.
and from it it appears that frst tele-
gram had been sent. which ha. nat