Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-22
10000 PRISONERS I
CAPiTUREDB YPO[ES
. Mast. few DAYS
War Booty Seized So Large
That Victors Cannot
Estimate It. As
FLIGHT INTO RUSSIA
ONLY REFUGE OF REDS
Dispatches From Warsaw Say
That All Danger of It's
Fate Has Passed. 81 s.,
REDS JOIN WITH THE TURNS
Bolshevist Cavalry Regiments Pass.
Ing Through Armenia Have Re-
Enforced KemaFs Nationalist.
REDS JOIN WITH THE TURNS
Bolshcvist Cavalry Regiments Pass
Ing Through Armenia Have Re-
Enforced Kemal's Nationalist. j

PARIS, August 21.-In tho principal
thcater Of operations on tho Polish
front the Poles are debouching from
Dcmblin and advancing in the direc-
ton OF Brest-Litovsk. They have
reached the valley OF the ;middletBug.
The prisoners taken by the Poles
In the last few days aggregate 10 ,0oD.
The large amount OF war material
has not been estimated Many guns;
with their carriages, have been saban-
doned in the forests.
Fighting I'm the Forcsts. =
The chief operations -are nowtgoing
on In the forests OF the Bug River,
from which the Bolshevist. troops.de-I
feated before Warsaw are retiring
hostility. The Polish army advancing
in the direction OF Ostralenka has
as Its objective the cutting OF com
munications between the Bolsheytst
center and right. Thus 1t Is between
ostralenka and I-omza, on the marshyi
land bathed by tho Narew, that tho
enemy probably will make his last
effort before tho fate OF the Red
army In tho north, the situation .of
which is: extremely grave, is de-
cided.
An Imitation of'the maneuyeryer-
ecuted in 1891 by Nicholas T., the
Bolshcvtsts have Withdrawn a:strong
section OF their forces to attackThorn
ana Wloclawek. cross the vIstula and
cut communications between DanziE
and Warsaw. These troops have en-
countered a.frcsh Polish ar1ny>formcd
In Posnania and Pomerania, which
dcpouched from Graudenz andSThorn.,
HcmniinE In tho Reds.
meanwhile another army. under~dI-
rection OF General BiIlotte, advancing
from Modlin. has attacked them from
inc south Finally n third army. 11n-
der General Hikorsi1i, Is defending
the Narew River. endeavoring ITO cut
or these troops from their ..sInglej
road or retreat In the north.
Scattered over nearly 100 miles
along the frontier OF East Prussia,
between Strasburg and OstraIenl,,
these Rcd forces seem condemned to
annihilation unless they take refuge
on Prussian territory.
Six Bolshevist divisions, constst1n,-
Oh about 10000 men. are surrounded
oy Polish forces between Siedice and.
bfest-Litovsk. according to press dis
patches received here,-today.
Reds Attack ON the Strfpa.
In order to diminish the pressurerinf
inc main theater of operations be-
tween the Narew and the Bug. Tho
Bolsheyists have undertaken q DEM
onstration on the Galician front, at,
lacking tho Polish and INSTANTANEOUS
sitions on the Stripa. Their cavalry
has crossed tho upper courses of. tho.
BUG and~Cossack. patrols are appear.
ing some leagues before Lenders.
This operation. however. is console
cred In military eQunrters as TOO be-
lated to effect any changes in tho
situation on the middle Bug or-toAaf-
Iect the issue of'the battle now going ,
on north OF the Narrow. in which the
fate of the main BoIshevist arniesl
apparently Is being.decided.
The high Polish commandstssre-f
ported to DO fully aware that shs,.
forces of tho Bolshevists have taken
precautions to prevent a surprise, /,