Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-10
POLES OCCUPY KEW
AFTER STIFF FIGHT
Cavalry Drives BoIsneviki
Before Them, Blasting
Their Positions.

! PARIS. May 10 Seven German
! Zeppelins have been seen going east
| over Warsaw. according to news
| paper reports from the Polish cap
! ital. and it is believed they are going
to Russia from Germany with mill
| tary instructors
] WARSAW. May (by the Associated
! f'ress).-Polish cavalry entered the city
or kieV this Saturday morning on the
| heels OF the retiring bolsheviki
| The stiffest fighting engaged in by
| the Poles before they reached the out
skirts of kiev was along the Irpen
river. just west OF that city. The boil
i sheviki. well Intrenched defended Ire
strip between the !rpen and the Dnieper
| until they were literally blasted from
their positions
The Poles first crossed th. Irpen
| northwest of kiev. near the mouth of
the Dnieper early on Saturday. after
| a three day fight before the citv's gates
Soon afterward the passage of the river
was effected in force at various points
| over emergency bridges. some of which
We're built under the Ere of the bolsne-
vik machine guns. The Aialin-k
railroad bridge across the Irpen was de-
| stroyed by the retreating enemy. and is
being repaired by soldiers. aided by the
local population.
Infantry Fought for Two Days,
For two days the struggle was for
the most part in an infantry battle.
] BY the end of that time, however. the
retreating defenders had recovered
sufficiently from their confusion TO
bring up artillery and put it into
play Meanwhile the Poles also had
brought up guns. but the progress of
the artillery to the battle front was
q T>klf hyF t,a
| try.
1t was early on Friday that the
! soviet troops began gradually to give
way before the Polish cannon fire on
all sides. The defenders fell back
upon kiev. where the only available
crossing Of the Dnieper was to be
found. Modern armored trains from
I he south on the Polish side aided the
infantry In THEM fight for the ancient
Russian capital, but the advance
along the railroad from Fastova was
made under the greatest difficulties
because of the railroad being under
fire from the bolshevik guns in their
positions along the chain of hills en-
circling Kiev.
Armored Trains Brought Up.
Armored trains were brought up by
way Of Malin also, and these will
move into kiev as soon as the bridge
over the Irpen is repaired and will
stand by with the reinforcements to
be sent into the city, in preparation
for holding Kiev against counter at
tacks
The army headquarters reports COW
ering Saturdays events show that
Polish troops in force We're in sight
of kiev that afternoon and gradually
moving forward, The twelve-day drive
through the Ukraine. the accounts
said. was reaching its elimination.
with the Polish and Ckrainian in
fantry expected to occupy kiev Sat
urday night or Sunday morning.
Meanwhile. an offensive was begun
to the north in Polesia on Saturday
by the Poles, according to the latest
communicate, which announced that
the military commanders had decided
that an attack was necessary to Off
set the bolshevik concentration to Off
region beyond Mozir. The first days
fighting resulted in the capture of
Ohoinski, east of Mozir. and the rail-
road town of Laslewicze, northeast
of MaZir Much material the state
ment adds, was taken by the Poles.
Ikrainians Join the Poles.
WARSAW, May 81 Ukrainian in
fantry joined the Poles in occupying |
Kiey in force late on Saturday.