The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-08-06
FLEEING BEFORE SOV|ETS
Americans Are Rapidly Leaving
Warsaw; Welfare Workers
Remain
Poles Certain To Abandon That
City Within Course of
Few Days
No Official Announcement As to
When They Will Make
The Move
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.l

ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.1
p Efforts by the armies of the
Polish republic to stem the tide
of the Russian bolshevistic in
vasion which threatens Warsaw
seem to have been futile.
Brest- Litovsk. the last bastion
in the defense east of the Polish
capital, is in inc hands of the 90
Wet armies; and Lonza. an i'm
portant railroad junction and
strategic base to the northeast,
and Kovel, northeast of Brest-
Litovsk have been given up by
the Poles. =
Hold Part Of Forts.
West of Brest- Litovsk the
Poles still hold the great forts
that have made that city one OF
the principal fortresses of east
ern Europe. but Soviet troops
have been flung across the Bug
River, further to the northwest,
and it would appear this move
will compel retirement of the
Russians are advancing In Eche-
General Mackenzen when he led
Dunajeo caysoaign during the
World war, and the Poles are
repeatedly being outfanked and
forced to leave positions they
have held for days against FIRM
tai attacks.
The Armistice Commission.
Tho p01fch oYr,oicfioo ron, &c
sion leaves Warsaw for Minsk
today to meet representatives of
the Moscow government for the
purpose of arranging an armis-
tice and beginning peace negotia-
tions.
There are many reports of
allied action to stop the advance
of the bolsheviki or to come to
the aid Of Poland, but -, as yet
nothing authoritative has teen re-
ported relative to this phase of
the seemingly desperate situa-
ton confronted by the infant
republic.
Warsaw, August 4.-Most Ameri
cans, excepting welfare workers an,
others having business in Warsaw
will have departed from this city b,
tomorrow night, it was announced b,
he authorities late today. Nor
han two hundred left for Danzig to
hight, and the American legation ha
for three hundred seat res
ervationS on trains leaving tomorrow
Welfare workers, who include per
laps forty or seventy women, VIII
'emain in Warsaw, will be provide,
with transportation by their respec
i've organizations, all of which hav,
veil equipped automobiles. Larg
quantities Of baggage have alread
been shipped out Of the city.
French Have Fled.
The majority Of the French civilian
population has left Warsaw, Their
,eirg about 1000 in the French col
,ny prior to the bolsheviki offensive
The American, British and Frencl
egatons will probably Withdraw
when the Polish government is fore
ID to leave, but the course to be pur
sued by the American legation will
'erend upon instructions from Wash
ngton.
While the Poles have considere,
he question of withdrawal, as we
here is no official announcement
the time 1t will leave O
where 1t will go. There are indica
ions that the government Is movin;
It's records
Progress Is Rapid
Warsaw, August 5.-Russian sovie
armies driving against the Polisl
ines defending Warsaw are main
tanning an average progress of ST.
niles per day In the direction O
his city. They are being held II
he south, however, and In SOM
places are being pushed back from
he districts east Of Lemberg, which
IS one of the detectives of their cam
paign.
Today's official statement issue,
1T general staff headquarters declare
The Poles have retaken the town O
Brody, near the Galician frontier
and have forced the bolshevikiN bacl
into Russia in the region of Radziy
ov, northeast of Brody.
Americans In Fray
American aviators fighting wit
The Kosciuscko squadron are battlin
against General Budenny's caviar
and infantry along the Sereth river
where the soviet forces have no
made Roadway. Parts of this squad
ron were engaged all day yesterda
near Miklicze, where the Kosciusck
and the Bolsheyiki were f1ghtine
The losses suffered by the enemy i
his district were very heavy, today
official statement saying 1000 boil
sheviki were killed and large mum
oers were wounded.
Grim Strain Of War
Poland strained every ounce of he
reserve power yesterday to check
nate the .bolsheviki. Men in who's
hands rests the destiny of Poland as
sembled at various conference
the day, and taking
leading roll In alb direcfinpa sa,.