The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-08-03
When Soviet Demands Discus
sion of PeaCe-Send Poles
Back for Instructions.
BREST- -LITovSK FALLS
Reds in 40 Miles of Warsaw
Counter Offensive Against
Bolsheviki Collapses.

tiations between the Poles and Rus
slams have been broken off, accord
Ing to official advIces received by
the French foreign office today.
The collapse Is reported to have
occurred when the members Of the
Russian delegation demanded
complete discussion Of pe;fce terms.
The Polish First and Fourth ar
mics are In full retrear, leaving a
wide gap open, through which the
red troops are pouring, the ad-
vices to the foreign office stated.
The Polish First and Fourth ar
niles were holding the front north
Ind northeast of Warsaw.
Their retirement. Is said to have
pened the way to the Bug river,
owards which the red forces are
low advancing. The Bug river
flows north of Warsaw and emptles
into the Vistula at Novy Dvor, fit-
POLES RETREATlNe.
The latest advices to Paris re-
eeived by the French foreign office
confirm the reports that the Rus
slams have captured the defenses Of
the city itself, which is more than
three miles distant, has not yet
been taken. The defensive works
were captured Monday.
The first Polish army, defending
Warsaw, is retreatlng, notably be-
tween the Bug and Narew rivers,
the advices show. The fourth Pol
Lltovsk district, also Is retreating.
j. j. Jusserand, French ambas-
sador to the United States, who
headed the French mission to War
saw, still remains In the Polish
capital
FORTRESS OCCUPIED.
The Russians occupied 6rest.
Lltovsk, Aug. I, 1t Is announced
In Mondays official statement from
progress of the soviet troops toward
Warsaw on the road from Blalys-
tok Is reported In the communque.
The Polish envoys, according to the
foreign office dispatches, informed tne
Russians they were not authorized to
discuss peace, but only armistice terms
The Polish plenipotentiaries are said 10
have left for Warsaw to consult their
government. They announced that, II
they obtained authority to discuss
peace, they would meet the Russians In
Minslx on Aug. 4.
The Polish counter offensive is re-
ported in official advices to have col
lapsed.
in Forty Miles of Warsaw.
The Russians driving on, warsaw
from the north are now less than forty
miles from the city, according to a
Basle disptach to the newspaper LIN
formation today, quoting advices re-
ceived in Basle from Koenigsberg. The
dispatch added that the Russians had
occupied Ostroleka sixty. miles OF war =
saw, and M. Lava, sixty miles north
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Violent Battle Progresses. ~
Violent fighting was still in progress
between the Poles and Russians north
east and southeast of Warsaw TO-DAY
with both sides claiming success.
The Polish war office claimed that
the Russian drive on Warsaw from the
north had begun to weaken while the
soviet war office at MOSCOW reported
that the Poles were In retreat south
OF the Narew river with the Russians III
pursuit.
On the old Galicians frontier, south
west of Warsaw, where the Poles are
undertaking a counter offensive, both
sides claimed to be advancing.
The following undated Polish war
office communique was telegraphed from
Warsaw today:
IN the &ector Of LomZa (seventy-hve
miles northeast of Warsaw) the enemy
attacks are growing weaker. The boil
shevik troops have been making deS-
perate efforts to capture the fortress OF
Hrest Litovsk. Our operations in the
Brody sector are proceeding favorabiy.
tNote-The soviet war office wire
lessed a communque from Moscow on
Saturday. saying that the energetic ad-
vance of the Russian red army had car
ried 1t to Brest Litovsk" Later press
dispatches said that Brest Litovsk had
been captured from the Poles by the
Russians)
According to dispatch from Vienna
quoting advices received in that city
from Warsaw. the Russians were COM
peled to withdraw several cavalry diyi-
sions from Galicia to put down revo-
lutionaary movement in Ukranian.
Insist On Secret Diplomacy.
A news agency dispatch from Warsaw
said that these Russians were lnsist-
ing upon "secret diplomacy" at the
arnistice negotiations. This dispatch
said that the Polish government had
sent a wireless proposal to Moscow that
dents be allowed to attend
parley but the soviet re-
jected 1t.
Lost Great Polish Fortress.
Warsaw. according to the Associated
Press reports that Brest- Litovsk, the
last great fortress guarding Warsaw
from the east. has apparently fallen be-
fore a tremendous assault by the Rus
sian bolshevih. North of that place
soviet forces have smashed their way
forward in their drive westward to
point only sixty miles east of this city.
over a front OF 100 MILES Polish
armies are being pounded to pieces be-
fore the rush of bolshevik hordes which |
are being hurled into the battle in a
desperate attempt to capture Warsaw |
before the conclusion OF the armistice |
conference at kobryn. Reinforcements |
are everywhere being hurried to the |
front by the Russians to complete the |
iefeat of the Poles before hostilities |
are halted.
An official statement issued late last |
hight showed the soviet armies had.
reached a line running from kossaKi |
10 CiichanowicZ, which is only sixty |
miles from this city. with which 1t is |
by an excellent automobile |
highway.
Great masses of bolsheviN have been |
hung against the Polish breas astworkers |
defending the port OF Brest Litovsk east |
,f the river Bug. Fugitives who ar
lived here last night from that city |
the soviet forces were in con-
.rol OF the eastern half OF the town.
II is officially admitted the Russians
Brest Litovsk.
ave reached Mieknika. northeast OF
The bolsheviki." said last nights
,fficial statement. have reached the
inc running through Kossaki. Mazow-
ecz. Vyszonki. koscielne, and Ciecha-
iowicz.
'On the northern front the line from
)strolenha to the PrussianN frontier Is
In the region of Lomza.
he Poles are making a stand against
loviee cavalry. but fresh enemy REIN
have been thrown into the
ight southwest OF that city"
Mention Of Ostrolenka was the frst
that he holsheviki had passed
he river Pisha- Ostrolcnka Is south
vest Of Lomza.
Ofheiai Announcement.
ORcisi announcement of the capture
u the fortress Of Brest -Litovsk 10y the
russians was contained IN a soviet war
,fflce communique wirelessed from Mos
,ow today. Russian troops occupied the
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