The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-19
TIDES OF WAR.
EbBINC AWAY
FROM WARSAW
Bolshevik Prisoners Pouring
Into Capital; Russians
Abandon Brest-Litovsk and
Retreat All Along Line.
CONFERENCE PUT OFF
(By Associated Press)


WARSAW, Aug. 1S.-u1 p. ny
Brest-Litovsk, the strongly fortified
town on the Bug river 12O miles east
of Warsaw, according to advices re-
ceived here.
The 57th, 5Sth and eights Bolshevik
divisions on the Warsaw front have
been annihilated and scores made
prisoners, according to tonight's Of
ficial communique.
The Russians lost their bearings in
trying to meet attacks on all sides
from the Polish armies on their flanks,
the statement adds.
The Poles continuing their advances
have occupied Kalyscun, 35 miles east
Of Warsaw; Siedlce, 81 miles east Of
the capital; Milyrcec. 20 miles south
east of Siedlce. and Wlodawa on the
Bug river, 125 miles southeast of
Warsaw.
Flee In DisorderIy Panic
Russian soviet forces are fleeing in
a disorderly panic along the front be-
tween the Vistula and Bug rivers,
where the Poles are advancing with
success.
In their counter-attack to relieve
Bolshevik pressure upon Warsaw, the
Poles are using tanks, airplanes, arm
ored trains and artillery in great num-
bers.
At Novo Minsk, east of here, and
Serock, to the northeast, 5000 pris-
oners, seven cannon, hundreds of
wagons and vast quantities of sup
plies have been captured from the
Bolsheviki, the statement declares.
Novo Georgievsk, the strong fort
ress about 10 miles northwest of War
saw, at the confluence of the Vistula
and Bug rivers, is the center Of hard
fighting.
In the Crimean sector engagements
are going on with indecisive results,
the statement says.
Retreat Looked Like Rout
The Bolshevik retreat north and
east of Warsaw, where the soviet
forces were closely driven by the
Poles, took the semblance of a rout
at some places, the communique re-
ports.
On the extreme left of the Polish
line, however, and in the region of
Lemberg, soviet advances are re-
corded.
Northwest of Warsaw the Russian
troops, who met resistance at Wloc-
lawek, where they had designed to
cross the Vistula, bombarded Wloc-
lawek for hours, the shells damaging
the cathedral and the bishops palace.
Soviet prisoners are pouring into
Warsaw in such numbers that it is
becoming a problem to care for them.
LONDON, Aug 19.-The Russo-Pol-
ish peace negotiations were not con-
tinued Wednesday as agreed, accord
ing to message dispatched from Mos
cow by George Tchitcherin. soviet for
eign minister, to Leo Kamaneff, the
soviet representative.
M. Tchitcherins message follows
Yesterday at the first sitting of the
Moscow conference, the Russo Ukrain.
fans had insisted that the second sit
ting should occur today and should
not be delayed until Aug. 10, as the
Polish delegation desired.
Nevertheless through the fault of
the Polish delegation today, the sit
ting did not occur. The sso-Ukrain.
ian delegation sent through it's secre.
tary an official protest to the Polish
delegation"
BERLIN, Aug. 19.-The Poles are
advancing on Craudenuz, West Prus
sia, in full force. according to a spe
cial dispatch to the Vossische Zeitung
today.
On the left wing strong Polish cav.
airy forces are bearing down on Thorn
from the south where the Bolsheviki
are attempting to cross the Vistula
Heavy fighting between the Poles
and the Bolsheviki is reported before
Goslerhausen.