Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-12
ODESSA CAP PTURED
BY POLES, SOVIET
ARMIES IN FLIGHT
Red Forces Get Terrific Blow
From the Captors
of Kiev.
TWO Boil LSHEVIKT
REGIMENTS WIPED OUT
BY Associated Press to Every Evening

i3E t%NBtidttU Z EtsS ~ livery Evening
Warsaw. May 11-Polish and Ukran-
ian forces have struck mighty blow At
the Russian Bolshevik front south Of klev
and have driven the enemy back along the
Beresina river Btchitza, an important
Dnieper river crossing. has been captured
and serious losses hav been inflicted on
the Soviet army. Fighting now is going
on ~ miles south of Kiev The Polish
line after the capture Of KIev is said to
have led TO the new offensive. which ex-
tends directly west Of Nitebask below KIev
on the Dnieper Polish forces IN . crossed
th b sina rlv r at several points and
have taken Wielatisch after heavy fight
ing.
Northeast Of Mozir. the Bolsheviki
have been forced across the Dnieper.
Attempts We're made bv the enemy to
destroy the railroad bridge at Bitchitsa,
but Polish units prevented this move
and cantured large number Of prisoners.
Announcement is made that two Soviet
regiments were annihilated in the fighting
around this town.
From kiey northward 10 the mouth Of
the Pripet river. distance OF about 50
miles, the Bolshevikl on the west side Of
the Dnieper are slowly falling back and
are building bridges TO facilitate their
nNAAt0 &iiE AllsatiA ODNF VI tic OAiSAl
army reaches the stream
Latest adyices indicate the Bolshevlki
have been driven back out ot the kiev
bridgehead Before this retirement was
forced, heavy artillery FIRE was maintained
ON hiev. often taking the form OF bar
rage. intended, apparently to prevent the
Poles and lkrainnans from bringing up
reinforeementS and supplies
Terror prevailed among the people in
the city during the bombardment, the
sound of shells passing overhead toward
the roads leading into klev from the west
causing CONSERVATION when shells were
not bursting n the city streets.
Capture of Odessa. he most important
Russian port On the Black Sea. Is reported
Official advlces of the taking Of the city
have not yet been received, the COM
muulcation apparently dealing with events
of some daes ago. IS they tell oi the cap
tare Of iultsehin and Bratzlau, on the
Bug rIyer. some distance north OF Odessa
Warsaw. May IL Eighteen men and
women were executed By order OF a
BolsheYlk extraordinary commission in
litomir, Just before the capture Of that
town III the Polish drive ON klev. accord
irg to dispatches from correspondents
II Tit lIRtkll tttt{t11tttA al tlEkE
The messages give details of the alleged
oeeuranee, and add that after the execu-
tlons the members IT the commission,
hearing tia, the Poies were advancing,
attempted t. escape by tram, one mem
Ter committing suicide when the fugitiyes
Were surrounded hy Polish laneiers The
others, L is declared. offered resistance
aud were killed hy the cavalrymen
E Acting upuu statements made bY citizens
al jitomlr the correspondents state the
i military arrested Jew and jewish
Youth Ii Years old who were declared 70
have heea among the eNecutlouers.
The other alleged eNecuuoncrs hal es-
capped
The B8ks. tie report SAYS ge"tendel
/ that the persons who were executed had
attempted to launch i counter revolution