The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-08-23
Poles in Counter Offensive
Capture 5000 Russians.
Retake Towns.
RE-ENTER BREST-LITOvSK
Military Situation Now Favors
Poland-Cry of ION to
wilma" Heard.

armies which invaded Poland an
threatened to capture Warsaw appea
10 De on the eve of complete disaster
says the Warsaw correspondent of tn
Matln. He quoted Gen. Weygand a
SAYING Poland will be the grave O
'H"ee-iourths OF the bolshevik army
Bottling the Russians
warsaw. Aug. 23.-(A. P.)-The pro
cess OF bottling the Russian forces OF
the Northern front between Prussia and
the Vistula river has been completed
according to an official statement issued
Just before last midnight The Pole.
nave closed the gateway of escape, TAX.
ing prisoners and materials in such
quantities that it is impossible to count
them.
Polish forces Sunday night were en-
ue'lvoring TO cut off the retreat OF this
Russian soviet armies or force them into
German territoTss'. On the exteme Polish
ieft the soviet cavalry was defeated and
driven out OF Soldau and the regions
occupied by the Russians In the North
Vistula area between Thorn and Plock'
Two Polish cavalry divisions are ad :
vancing toward Bialystok for the evi
dent purpose OF cutting Off the retreat
OF SOVIET troops operating to the north
ol o'. W. warsaw. The correspondent de-
eiares the bolsheviki will soon be forced
INTO hurried general retreat and that
ranks. t"e"
Retirement OF Russian soviet forces
from the city Of Brest-Litovsk was Of
( fcially admitted in a statement issued
Yesterday In Moscow and received here
today by wireless.
The number Of Russian soviet pris-
oners @ captured In the Polish counter
onensive will amount to 5000. accord
ing 10 warsaw advices to the French
foreign office in Paris today.
Bolshevlk Retreat Blocked
warsaw, Aug GA. P.)-Polish
Iqrces have taken the town Of Grudusk,
ABOUT twelve miles north Of Ciechanow,
and nave cut soff the retreat OF bolshe-
Vlk, forces northwest and north Of This
nysz.
The Eighteenth Polish division. which
mas been attacking Ciechanow, has
the part of the enemy detachments |
covering the retreat of the Fourth So |
vet army. which last week advanced |
along the Prusslan frontier until it |
threatened W,re the Polish lines along the
Vistula river. After capturing Cieclia-
now, the Poles advanced rapidly north
ward and succeeded In cutting the only
direct line railroad running eastward
from the soviet position.
Volunteer Polish divisions are now
attacking Przasnysz
Now In Poland's Favor.
lt Is assumed here that representa-
tives of the Russian soviet government
presented their peace terms at the
Mlnsk conference before the Polish del
egates received word from Warsaw of
the decided change in the military sit
uation, which now favors Poland. 1t
is believed In diplomatic circles that
ne delegation sent from. this city to
ainsk is fully informed of military and
other developments, but dispatches
from the delegates have given no hint
that the newsl has reached them. +
One radio dispatch from Warsaw has
been acknowledged by George Tchit-
cherin, who stated 1t had been delivered
TO the Polish representatives at Minsk.
Three Polish officers have been sent
to Minsk with documents, having been
liven safe conduct through the lines
BY the bolsheviki l
Cry Of "on to Wilma"
The Polish government has been un- !
able to communicate with Minsk and !
thus notify the Polish armistice and ]
Russians. The government has been
getting it's Minsk news by picking up
wireless messages from Vienna and t
Sauen. /;
The more hot headed advisers of the
government are clamoring for de- [
cisive military victory before peace Is n
made h
The cry of "on to vina!' and con n
20 Kovel!' is now heard. n
Battle Of Warsaw Ended. .
|
,oles have reached such enormous pro- II
'options they cannot be estimated
rwenty-one bolshevik divisions were
among the prisoners. a
The Third and Fifteenth Russian di- t,
'isions. commanded by Prince Gaia il
han. have been cut off between the II
-istula river and East Prussia and news i
4 their surrender Is momentarily eX- u
ected. =
Hard fighting continues on the front Is
asst Of Warsaw, but the battle of War u
aw" has ended. The Polish counter
ffensive, which not only stopped the y
ussians. but rolled them back all along .s
he line, is swinging into its second d
hase, as the Poles have begun to meet
fronEer resistance from the reds and =,
he Poles advance has been slowed e,
own owing to lack of Polish cavalry -. !
, follow up their recent victory. =,
Defeated In GaIlcla Sc
Gen. Budenny's cavalry army that has n;
cen attempting counter drive against l.
,e Poles in Galicia has been defeated
nd has narrowly escaped annihilation.
to a Central News dispatch m
ON Vienna to London today. The SO
spatch said that Gen. Budenny's army pr
now considerable distance" from sa
emherg. Lemherg was the chief oh al
ctive OBJ the red army drive in Ga fr
,ia SO
Won't Accent Soviet Terms. m
Warsow, Aug. 22.-(A. P.)-The for na
gn office announcement of Saturday IN
sht that Poland would not accept tho re
csSian soviet terms presented to the e.,
,lish peace delegates at Minsk refers ,, a.,
those submitted by NJ. Danishevsky. AZ AZ
,airman OF the soviet delegation. at -
,ursday's session Of the Russo Polish Tr
Inference. M
The Polish delegation's instructions no
IRE to insist upon an honorable and rel
rable peace, and II was said at the tio
reign office today that no new in "
ructlons had been sent. As rapidly gr,
possible the Polish delegates Mt tn,
rsk are being informed bv wireless Ge
d otherwise Of the Polish military Pr
ccesses which NAV result in revers-
? the situation or at least greatly
anging the terms the soviet dele too
tes presented at the opening Of the OF
this
Unable 10 Aid Comrades. in
from the fronts north and ths
Il Of Warsaw. dated Saturday night.
ported that the Russians had been ha'
npetely dispersed. The Russians are tat
irng toward the east along both pu'
nts. the dispatches added. ina
A wireless message from the Rus the
ian field station at Crodno TO Gen. arr
3udenny's Headquarters IN nor'h-
atsern Gaiieia, was picked W here.
Two hours later q reply from Gen. sis
3udenny was picked VI. " read: va "a
"unabIe to send help. Have hands "1 y
Iil In south" a.
he Poles are moving heavy forces ,eS, ,'S
Brest I itovsk as the Russians are " ~
empting to regroup~ for a counter at 80
X In that district. The retreatinE 'i'a
LOST AND~FoUND IN