New-York tribune., 1920-07-23
Military Missions Of
French and British
Depart for w arsa
to Arrange Details
Will Offer Money,
Food or Soldiers
y. S. Acts to Remove All
Citizens i'm War Zone;
Red Army Advancing

PARIS, July 22.-The Allies have de-
cided to take measures preparatory to
giving military aid to Poland if that
should prove necessary
French mission headed by Jules J.
Jusserand, French Ambassador to the
United States, who is home on leave,
with General Weygand, right hand man
of Marshal Foch, and M Vignon, a
close collaboration with Premier Mile
rand, will leave tonight for Warsaw
to arrange for prompt succor to the
Poles.
On the same train and with the
same object there will be a British
mission headed by Lord Abernon, Brit
'sh Ambassador at Berlin, General
Radcliffe and Sir Maurice Hankey.
These missions, it is learned will
depart with full authority to say to
the Poles that whatever aid is needed,
whether military or tinanciaI or in the
nature of supplies, will be Forthcoming
if the Bolsheviki persist in desipn
to march into distinctively Polish
territory.
Means Help of Troops
1t is stated unotficially, but on high
authority that this means help for
Poland in the form of troops, if thew
are required.
Already large number of Allied Of
ncers and subalterns are with the Po-
ilsh army. They will be increased, it
IS declared, according to circumstances.
with as many divisions of infantry
tank detachments, air forces and artil-
lery as may be transported in due time.
WASHINGTON, July 22.-W;thout
official information regarding the de-
cision of the Allied powers to furnish
military aid to Poland, government Of
ficlals to-day unofficially professed to
see In the new situation most of the
elements of a European war on a broad
scale
Army officers and officials of the
State Department were frankly pes
simistic as to the ability of France and
Great Britain to place armies in Poland
IN time to check the Russian advance
before Warsaw falls. Many were skep-
tlcal of the power of either France or
Great Britain to drive their war-weary
populations into the struggle without
serious unbalancing of domestic af-
fairs.
Although technically the President
still is endowed with the specially con-
ferred war powers, there was no dis
position in official circles to assume
that he would Involve the United States
IN a war between the Bolsheviki and
the Allies unless action might be justj-
fed by some overt act against the army
of occupation on the Rhine. Reports
to the State Department indicate in
creasing tenseness between the Con-
servative and pro-Radical groups in
Germany, and it was generally believed
that unless the radical element gained
the ascendency the chances Of the
United States becoming. involved in the
new situation were slight. A sugges-
tion of American cooperation from
France and Great Britain was regarded
as probable.
u. S. an Observer Only
1t was indicated at the State Depart
ment the part of the United States for
the present will be that of an interest
ed observer Steps already have been
taken to remove from the war area
such Americans as may wish to leave.
WARSAW, July 22.-The menace to
the Polish capital is becoming serious
through the defeat of the left wing of
the Polish army.
Since the attacks of the Bosheviki
against Wilma on July Ia, the Polish
left, or northern wing, has been COM
PEELED to hasten its retreat, and the
Bolsheviki have been following it with
daily advance averaging fifteen miles.
In three weeks the Poles have retired
from the Beresina River to the Niemen,
a distance of more than 1870 miles, and
the distance between the Niemen and
the Vistula, which flows through War
saw is about 15O miles