New-York tribune., 1920-08-04

Russian Forces, Contin.
uing Advance, Expect
to Enter W Warsaw bv
Aug.9; CapitalFortiGed
W o1'kers Summoned
TO Seize Industry
Bolsheviki Say Break in
Negotiations v as Due to
Error; Ask New Session

soclated Press) s).-Officlal dispatches
from Moscow report that the Bol.
shevik armies are pounding the Pol.
lsh forces to pieces on a front Of
12O miles, and that the Reds now are
only sixty miles from Warsaw.
They have laid their plans to enter
the Polish capital on August 9.
Meanwhile provisional soviet has
been formed in the part- Of Poland
that have been occupied by Soviet
troops, according to a wireless mes
sage received here from Moscow to.
day Julian Maakievsky is chair
man of the newly formed body, adds
the dispatch.
Capital Won't Be Moved
Despite the military situation,
wireless dispatches from Warsaw
say that the government will not be
moved from that city because of the
fear that radical government would
be set up after their departure.
Other Warsaw dispatches say that
armistice negotiations between the
Poles and Russians at Baranovitchi
have been broken off, but it is as
serted by the Russians that this was
due to misunderstanding.
when the Bolsheviki suggested the
negotiations at Minsk Wednesday. thew
proposed, to save tine. that the Polish
government should notify the Russian
government by wireless that a courier
with new credentials had been sent"
says dispatch to The Herald" the
Labor organ, from Christiania.
70 the surprise OF the Rms ians. the
follsh delegates refused the suggestion
and declared they must return 10 War
saw
Energetic measures for the defense
OF Warsaw have been taken by the
government under the direction Of
French engineers. The defense OF the
clty has been entrusted 70 the north
ern army, under General Hgller.
Polish Front Smashed
"The Polish northern froat.v saws
a a dispatch quoting the Berlin National
4sl'ung, has been completely V smashed,
russian troops viii reach The south
east corner OF the Polish corridor in
few days and endaAger railway traffic
between Warsaw and Danzir. SO that
'he Poles VIII not be able to count
upon the arms and mGnisions arriving
and being unloaded Al Danzig.n
Inc Russians occupied Brest-Iitovsk
august l, 1t IS announced IN MONDAYS
olhclsl statement from Moscow re-
ceived to-day. Further progress Of the
SOVIET troops toward Warsaw on TIE
road from Bialystok is reported in ths
communique.
The Russian manifesto proclaiming
o9e esta oilshment of soviet in occn-
pea Polish territory IS addressed to
the laborers OF Poland and exhorts
them TO rise against Pilsudski's bour-
geolsle, landowner government"
1he manifesto declares that stable
peace between Russia and Poland is
possible only through Soviets of the
Urged to Dust Capitalists
The works and mines must be wrost-
ed from the hands OF the capitalist
spectators and money lenders and be-
come the property Of the people in the
Lersons Of the workers committees.r
continued the manifesto. The lnnd
md forests must be handed over as
he property of the pecole, and be man
iged by the people. The land owners
must be driven away and the property
by the poor peasants com
nlttees. The land of the working peas
ants viii remain untouched.
I'm the towns authority will pass
into the hands Of the workers depu-
ties. in the villages temporary soyiets
wi be formed
"When throughout Poland the bloody
government which dragged the country
into the criminal war is o7erthrown
the soviets of workers deputies of the
towns and villages viii form the Po-
l.sh Socialist Soviet Republic
Due to Misund
WARSAW, Avg. 3 BY The Associ-
sted Press) The breaking of cf the
between the Poles ana
the Bolsheviki, out of which it mad been
hoped would come an arYaistice and
the early cessation of hosti.ities. was
due 10 misunderstanding, accordinr
to the contention of The Russian Soviet
authorities, in wireless dispatch re-
ceived here today. The latest com
munication from the Soviet suggests
that negotiations both for an armi-
!. "''u -oi peaSc pe He!u IN MlnSk
Wednesday.
1t asks that the Poles send a delega-
ton to Minsk invested with all the
necessary credentials to negotiate for
peace.
The Poles contend that It will be a
physical ,impossibility Tor them to com
pr y with this proposal.
While the Polish delegates are re-
tracing their steps homcward from
where the conference
With the Bolsheviki ended so abruptly.
the Bolshevik troops are reported
everywhere to be pressing their at
tacks on the entire battle line from the
East Prussian front on the north 70
the region adjacent to Lemberg in
Gaiicia, on the south
Inside the great battle arc the Poles
are hurriedly preparing defcnses, par
ticularly trenches and barbed wire en-
Ia ng3 3ements in front OF Warsaw. Ac-
tlv'ties on the northern front indicate
tina: the Boshevik plans include an
movement against Lomza
which is of strategical Importance in