Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-28

Complete Integrity and lndepend-
ence of Polish Nation
Demanded.
BY the Associated Press.
WARSAW. August 27.-Polish ar
tillery has decimated the principal
column of retreating soviet forces on
the northeastern front, catching the
bolsheviki at short range, according
More than 500 men, including two
general staff officers and eleven line
officers have been captured. Among
the killed was the commander of the
57th Bolshevik Division and his CHIEF
of staff.
Detachments Of the Polish Sd Legion
Division. which are fighting east OF
the Bug river, near Brest-Litavsk
have become engaged in an energetic
defensive action in anticipation of
soviet attack against that city.
Repeated bolshevik attacks in the
region of Lemberg have been re-
pulsed. but fighting continues in the
vicinity of DzielZcon. as Weu as
along the Bobrka and Swirz rivers.
The situation on the northern front
is without change, the statement
says.
WARSAW. August % (by the Asso-
ciated Press).-Part of the Sd Russian
Soviet Cavalry Corps and a detach-
ment of infantry, according to the lat
est news from the northern front. are
still west of kolno, near the East
Prussian border. trying to fight their
way through the Polish forces.
In the vicinity of Mlawa the Poles
took 5000 prisoners and captured
three gunSL
The pursuing Polish armies have
retaken Ossowiec and Grajevo. to the
northwest of Bia1ystok, and are con-
tinuing eastward toward koritzyn;;
Kamieniets. and in the direction of
Kobryn, east of Brest-Litoysk. In this
region the Poles captured 1,200 Rus
sian soldiers belonging to the soviet
reinforcements.
On the southern front. around Lem
berg. the Poles have reached the out
skirts of Krasne and have occupied
Prxemyslany, to the southeast of Lem
berg.
Desperafe Stand Mt Grodno.
PARIS. August 27.-The bolsheviki
are making a desperate stand at
Grodno, according to a statement of
the foreign ministry here today. The
statement added that all available
bolshevik troops are being concen-
trated at Grodno. and a great battle is
expected shortly, extending from that
place to Brest-Litovsk-
Petrosrad Conditions Bad.
COPENHAGEN, August 27.-Advices
from Petrograd to the Beringske
Tidende state that conditions in that
city are becoming critical. and that
the fall Of the soviet government ap-
pears imminent. Information from
the front, together with the desperate
economic situation, is believed to be
responsible for the discomfort prevail
ing in the city.
All freedom Of trade has been pro-
hibited. says the report. Many shops
have been closed and valuables seized
1t Is further stated that the bolshevikl
have punished demonstrators by shoot.
ing. Excitement within the Petrcgrad
garrison is increasing.
LONDON, August 2S.-Only $4,000
Russian bolshevik soldiers have entered
East Prussia and been interned, accord
ing to an official announcement made In
Berlin, says a dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Company from that city.
Polish Delegate Tells Terms.
WARSAW. August 27.-The presi-
on August 10 laid down the follow
ing as Poland's principal conditions fol
peace:
"The political and economic in
tegrity, and complete sovereignty
and independence of Poland within
her frontiers are indispensable for
her economic and political develop
ment.
Guarantees that Russia will not
interfere with the internal question
of Poland"
The text of the declarations was
forwarded to Warsaw from Minsk
August 2s. but oaly reached Warsa"
August 26.
Reds Note .Impertinent."
LONDON. August 27.-The follow
ing dispatch from Lucerne was re
ceived by the London Times:
Premier Lloyd George has re
ceived the soviet note, and the i'm
preston created by it is not a salts
factory one. The tone of the com
Inunication is considered to verge oil
studied impertinence. The note will
be the subject of an exchange o
views between London, Paris an,
Rome.
TT is expected that Premier Lloy,
George will remain here anothe
week"
Premier witos has notified the Rus
+ sian soviet government by wireles
that the Polish victory has produced
no change in the intentions of TIL
government of Poland. says a War
saw dispatch to the Times. Th
premier added that instructions to tn
'POlSn peace deleSauon at MlnSk nav
not been changed. and that the Pole
desire only an honorable peace.
willing to Shift Farley.
PARIS. August 2S.-Willingness t
transfer the Russo-Polish peace nego
tiations at Minsk to neutral countr
is expressed in a wireless messag
from Moscow picked up by the Fife
Tower station today. The details o
the soviet offer could not be de
ciphered, however. the foreign offic
announced.