Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-08-31
BREST-LITOVSK
TAKEN BY POLES
Seize Stronghold 100 Miles From
Warsaw; Gen. Wrangel
Checks Reds.
0. S. ENJOYS Send REPORTS
Gen. Weygand Declares Polish Nation
Its Own Savior-Says Military OPP
erations All Eexecuted by
Polish Generals.

Washington, Aug. 23.-Brest-Litovsk
has been occupied by the Polish army,
according to advices received by the
state department from the American
commissioner at Berlin. His dispatch
was based on a report received by him
from Posen.
The army of General Wrangel has
checked the advance of the bOlsheviki-
In the direction of southern Russia
and has driven them back across the
lower portion of the Dnfeper river, ac-
cording to official advices received by
the state department.
Paris, Aug. 23.-The military sue
cesses of the Poles continue, accord
ing to a report to the foreign office
from the military mission in Warsaw,
under plans elaborated by the French
general, Weygand. and his staff of
more than 600 officers.
1t is considered that French and
Polish cooperation in the commands
Of the various forces now has reached
a satisfactory stage. J. ]. Jusserand
and Lord D'Abernon, respectively the
heads of the French and British mis-
sions to Poland, have returned to
Warsaw from Posen for conference
with General Weygand and the Polish
staff.
The situation at Danzig is still
causing worry, but it Is expected to be
cleared up when two French battle
ships, now on their way there, arrive
and offer Sir Reginald T. Tower, the
allied high commissioner at Danzig,
sufficient forces to permit the unload
ing of Polish munitions.
Polish forces are advancing with
undiminished speed along the line run
ming from north of Warsaw to VIDE
dawa, about 40 miles southeast of
Warsaw.
Principal interest, hO&ever, attaches
to the maneuvers of General Pilsud-
skis forces Massed reserves, which
he had concentrated at Ivangorod.
southeast of the capital, have adj
vanced 60 miles in three days and eff
fected junction with another army
operating from Cholm. United, these
armies were within 18 miles Of the
strongly fortified Brest-Litovsk, 120
miles east of Warsaw, Wednesday,
and have now probably reoccupied that
important center of communications,
which the reds late Wednesday were
reported to be hurriedly evacuat-
Ing
The success of the Poles In throw
ing back the bOlsheviki in the battle
of Warsaw was "a Polish victory" the
French general, Weygand, told dele
cations at Warsaw who had come to
tell him that he was the most popular
man in Poland, and was proclaimed
by all as "the savior of War
saw"
Advices received here from the Pol
ish capital quote General Weygand, in
his response to the delegations, as fol-
lows:
preparatory military operations
were executed by the Polish generals,
according to the Polish plan. My role,
as well as that of the other French
officers, was limited to filling certain
gaps in the details of execution. 1t is
the Polish nation that has been its
own savior.
This magnificent victory consoli-
dates the Polish state, whose exist
ence is indispensable to Frances ex-
istence. Germany, who had hoped to
resume direct relations with the So
viets and to throw red armies against
the enemy across the Rhine, must re-
nounce for the moment such means of
annullng the Versailles treaty.
IF the Polish leaders know how to
profit by victory, am convinced that
the bolshevik army will soon cease to
exist"
Warsaw. Aug. 20.-The Fifty-sev
.enth, Fifty-eighth and Eighth Dol
shevik divisions on the Warsaw front
have been annihilated and thousands
Of soviet soldiers made prisoners,
The bolshevik retreat north ant
east of Warsaw, where the soviet
forces were closely driven by the
Poles. took the semhlance of a rou
at some places.
The Russians lost their bearings In
| trying to meet attacks on all sides
from the Polish columns on theil
| TANKS, the statement adds.
The Poles, continuing their advance
have occupied Kaluszyn, 35 miles cas-
of Warsaw; Siedlce. 81 miles east o.
the capital; Milzyrec. 20 miles south
| east of Siedlce and Wlodaw0, on thu
Bug river, 1916 miles southeast O.
| Warsaw
| Nopk Srnashec Rernrd