The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-07-29
Fighting Follows Russia's Ac-
ceptance Of Poles Plea for
ArmistiCe.
BERLIN ISSUES WARNING
Against Bolshevik Agents Re-
cruiting in Germany-Allied
Mission in Stern Action.
(HY FRANK MASoN.) J

Berlin. July ed. N Sj-purinp
g Iightlng on the Polish battle front.
w whieh e mas followed Russia's acceptance
husslans have broken the Polish front
oyer its entire length along the Niemen
r' dWer' SAID q dispatch from Warsaw to-
Savi Ihe Polish losses are reported to
Polish aviators report the Russian
nigh command is massing 10000 cavai.
IyInen between Wilma and Grodnov. in
SHlcatlng that the bolsheviki are prepar-
ing ior new drive north of Warsaw.
"A possible explanation of the con-
.lnued lighting by the Russian Red
army was contained in the following
dispatch from Marggrabowa to the
newspaper th spa Neuer Berliner: Officers of
army are refusing to obey Moscow's
order for an armisitce with the Poles
Tension has developed between the
polsnevik commissars and the army |
sisthheIais. apparently the latter are |
elther unable or unwilling to restrain |
the troops" |
The Polish military authorities at |
rosen have arrested $50 German agita-
from Meseritz. There is no confirma.
llon OF the rumor current here yester-
at Posen. Wv
Minister Of Defense Gessler has is.
sued proclamation warning Germans
20 beware OF bolshevik agents who pre-.
TEND to be. recruiting soldiers for serv-
ice In the Russian white" (antiboIshe-
vlkl army; There is reported to be
many by recruiting agents who declare
they are seeking men for Gen. Wran-
gels army on the Crimean front.
me allied mission at Dantzig is talk
ing ing stern measures to put down labor
touples that arose over the shipment of
war supplies to Poland 1t is reported
that British soldiers are being used as
strike breakers to unload ships con-
Ialniing munitions consigned to the
:, The allied mission is said to be
to change Dantzig from n
Iree port to an out and out Polish port n
unless unless the strike of dock workers and
warscwe rrsreh ,;,n NTH aoush Troops. !
ticnal French officers attached to The
military mission have arrived. All of s
mem VIII be assigned to various Polish 8
lnlts M as technical advisers. q
The newspapers continue to express h
heir contention that the soviets do not q
want peace. but desire to invade Po- +
and They say It is clear from what
$ transpiring in the northeast that the a
olsheviki are aiming directly at War c
aw ana that in the south they are \
narchng upon Lemberg. S
The Gazeta Warszawska declares:
Poland is fully aware that negotiations L
fhile they last, soviet Russia will make
u efforts to cause an outbreak of boil | D
hevism and revolution in Poland G
therefore,. Poland must. in order to 1
an honorable peace, gather +,
II her patriotic spirit and energy" 81
TWentyrtwo Miles inside Frontier c,
The Russian drive into Poland con. II
niles despite Moscow's acceptance OF Il
Glands armistice plea and today the {,
olshevik army was 22nmiles inside the n
olish frontier The Eoviet war office n
wireless from Moscow said b
nat RUSSIAN victories continued"
Send Delegates July 30. IL
Warsaw, July 29.--(A. P.)-The Polish m
,mmittee of national defense sent m
ireless message to the soviet supreme q,
,mmand on July 27 stating that it Fl
ould send delegates on July 30 with al
II mower to negotiate an armistice. hs
UNCERTAIN ABOUT GALiCiA lis
London, July 29.-(A. P.)--Ques- in
TONED In the house Of commons to. r.
day as to whether the bolshevIk tn
advance agalnst Poland had ceased, til
Premier Lloyd George stated he had co
lust received message from the tit
british military mission saying the tw
hoishevlk advance In the north had ST
slowed down and II did not appear Mi
II was being pushed with great tic
vIeor -' .-. -.' .'t fe,
Mr.. Lloyd oeorae said he was not nu M
suro rhout the sitartor In GalIcla. ri
Denies Terms viii BE Hard. lis
London. July 29.-Russia has no in til,
ntion of debating hard peace terms,
Litvinoff. minister of commerce in
e soviet government was quoted as is
wing in a Central News dispatch from ms
this afternoon. Relations mi
tween Russia and the allies can be
ranged If the allies prove thew have po
ven up the idea Of overthrowing the tie,
1scow government" an,
Red Forces Advancing. sar s.'
July 27.-(A. P.)-The boil dea
evik drive from the northeast along lat
: Bialystok railroad and the thrust Ali;
Galicia in the direction of Lemberg
! developing rapidly, despite Polish
Poles hold Pinsk. but If the red III
vance continues, the Poles will be
npeled to evacnate the Pripet coun-
: The Pinsk- Brest- t-Litovsk railroad
eady Is threatened In Galicia the
nting has reached point of seventy l.
ometers east of Lemberg. with the locl
sheviki bearing down upon the city Rus
m threA directions. par
Ilong the Zbrucz and Styr rivers, neg
'theast of Lemberg, the operations eth
lsst chiefly of infantry. fighting. and
hitting in the north also is chiefly by l.
infantry. air
4 last accounts the bolsheviki were a e
hin the outskirts of Bialystok, the Rus
of which is expected here to occur this
any minute. 1t
he newspapers are advocating the ernl
Mediate construction of trenches, tiat
liflcations and other works for the re
ense Of Warsaw before the bolshe- the
advance close. PoIa