The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-29
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BolshevIki Bearing down upon the city
from three directions.
Reds Use Armored Autos.
In the south General Budenrfy, the
Russian cavalry commander has re-
inforced his army with runabout ar
Nmored cars carrying machine guns
which fight their way thru roads and
open country while the horsemen keep
to the wooded region and rough coun-
try. General Budenny also has MAJ
Chine guns on carts drawn by four
horses. These are brought up: in. the
cayalry's rear and are used when the
Cossacks make a stand.
Along the Zbrucz and Styr rivers,
northeast of Lemberg. the operations
consist chiefly of infantry fighting.
The cavalry is operating in the Royno
and Lutsk regions, endeavoring to cut
the railroads leading to Kovel and
other railroad functions vital to the
Poles in their movement of troops.
Fighting, in the north-when there. Is
fighting-is chiefly by the infantry,
tho the Bolsheviki have cavalry divi-
sions at the tip of their right wing.
The cavalry is already operating
across the Nieman river in the direc-
ton of East Prussia and to the south
in Poland proper. Much territory has
but the advances are made on groun d
evacuated by the Poles. who were out
fTanked or withdrew because the
Poles say, they were outnumbered by
the red forces. AS
The newspapers are advocating the
immediate construction of trenches,
Notifications and other works for the
defense of Warsaw before the BoIshe-
Wiki advance closely.
French Hurry to Help.
French officers attached to the mil
itary mission have arrived. All of
units as technical advisers. A large
school for officers, under the -superyi-
sion of French officers. was opened to-
day at Rembertoff. a suburb OF War
saw. ltff
The newspapers continued to ex-
do not want peace but desire to m
wade Poland. They say it is clear
from what is transpfring in the north
east that the Bolsheviki are aiming di-
rectly at Warsaw and that in the south
they are marching upon LembeTg..t <
The Gazeta Warsawska declares:
POLAND is fully aware that negotiations
may be broken off any minute and
that while they last soVietIRussia will
make all efforts to cause an outbrea k
of Bolshevism and revolution in Po-
land. Therefore Poland must, In, or
der to safeguard an honorable peace,
gather all her patriotic spirit land
energy" go rs-s
no EGACS Win tNS0S. Huf 2 Fs4ft =
The Russian patriot Barzew, nov IN
Warsaw, is quoted by the Corier
Poranny as saying: 81 do not believe
peace will be made between Poland
and soviet Russia. The soviets need a
temporary rest and they will sign an
armistice. If they sign peace it VIII
mean that the soviets hope thru prop
uganda TO establish a soviet govern-
ment in Poland.
Peace with Bolshevism would be
the greatest calamity for Poland and
RUsSia--that Russia will soon appear
and that will be neither a czarist Rus
STA nor a Bolshevist Russia. We Rus
sian democrats will never stop fight
ing Bolshevism as we believe its vic
tory means the end of civilized Eu-
rope"
Mission Recommends Aid.
Paris, July 2s.-The Franco-B British
mission to Poland has made a report
of the military situation in that coun-
try which it declares is not so desper-
ate but that it can be retrieved with
out difficulty if the missions three
main recommendations are followed.
The mission reports that the Polish
man power is satisfactory both as to
quality and quantity. It recommends
first the immediate sending of NUM-
lions to Poland; second the imm sdidte
employment of six hundred French
officers and two hundred British Off
GERS and third a regrouping of the
Polish army, notably the moving of
troops from the Galician front to the
northern front,