The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-23
Bolshevists Completely Sur
rounded and Prisoners Are
Taken Faster Than Adding
Machine Can Count.
$4,000 LATEST TOTAL
tRy Associated Pressl

night.
They have closed the gateway of
escape, taking prisoners and material
in such numbers that it is impossible
to count them.
The number of Russian soviet pris-
noers captured amount to $4,000
Soviet Russian armies which invad-
ed Poland and threatened to capture
Warsaw, appear to be on the eve OF
complete disaster, says the Warsaw
correspondent OF the Matin
Would Bury Whole Russian Army
He quotes General Weygana as say
ing POLAND will be the grave Of three
fourths Of the Bolshevik army"
Two Polish cavalry divisions are ad-
yancing toward Bialystok for the evil
dent purpose Of cutting off the retreat
| Of soviet troops operating to the north
OF Warsaw. The correspondent de-
clares the Bolshevik will soon be fore
ed into hurried general retreat and
| that discipline has broken down in
their ranks.
Most Of the $4,000 prisoners already
| counted were captured in the terri
tory northwest of Warsaw, including
the Danzig corridor, by the army un-
der command of the French General
Billotte, who formerly was chief to
General Lyautey, resident French Gov
ernor of Morocco.
Composed of Germans
This army now is most effective and
is composed Of German trained men of
Posen. Another Polish army under
,, command of the French General
Henry is striking toward Bialystok
from Warsaw, cutting off the Bolshe-
vik retreat
German workers at Danzig have es-
tablished soviets and have seized the
piers, preventing the landing of any
supplies for Poland. according to
report from that city.
! The German commander of the port
Is said to have refused to assign moor
| ings for the French despatch boat
| Acora and the cruiser Gueydon. Sir
Reginald T. Tower, high commission
er for the league of nations, at Dan
zig, has refused to take any RESPONSE
bility, declaring he must await instruc-
tons from London.
WARSAW, Aug. 23-The foreign
office announcement of Saturday
night that Poland would not accept
| the Russian soviet terms presented to
the Polish peace delegates at Minsk
refers to those submitted by M. Dan
ishevsky, chairman of the soviet dele
alton, at Thursdays session of the
Russo-Polish conference.
The Polish delegations instructions
were to insist upon an honorable and
durable peace, and It was said at the
! foreign office today that no new in
structions had been sent.
| Tell Them of Victories
| AS rapidly as possible, the Polish
delegates at Minsk are being informed
| by wireless and otherwise of the Pol
ish military successes which may re-
suit in reversing the situation or at
least greatly changing the terms the
soviet delegates presented at the open
ing of negotiations.
1t is assumed here that repres enta-
tives of the Russian soviet govern
ment presented their peace terms at
the Minsk conference before the Pol
ish delegates received word from
Warsaw of the decided change in the
military situation, which now favors
Poland
1t is believed in diplomatic circles
that the delegation sent from this city
to Minsk is fully informed of military
and other developments, but dis
patches from the delegates have given
no hint that the news has reached
them.
Was Delivered to Poles
One radio dispatch from Warsaw
has been acknowledged by George
-, Tchitcherin, who stated it had been
delivered to the Polish representa-
tives at Minsk. Three Polish officers
have been sent to Minsk with docu-
pents, having been given safe con-
duct through the lines by the Bolshe-
wiki.
! Polish forces have taken the town
of Grudusk, about IL miles north of
/ Ciechanow, and have cut off the re-
treat of the Bolsheviki forces north
west and north of this city by the
way of Mlawa and PrzasnysZ.
The 18th Polish division, which has
been attacking Ciechanow, has been
met by desperate resistance on the
part of enemy detachments covering
the retreat of the Fourth soviet army
which last week advanced along the
Prussian frontier until it threatened
the Polish defenses along the Vistula
river.
j After capturing Ciechanow the
Poles advanced rapidly northward and
SdSSCCoCu III CuttiAS tIiS oLIy oAlCSt
line railroad running eastward from
the soviet positions. Volunteer Pol
ish divisions are now attacking
PrZasnysz.
POSEN, Aug. 23-Polish victories
over the Russian soviet armies before
Warsaw, caused intense excitement
here today, soldiers and volunteers
parading the streets and singing songs
denouncing Bolshevism,
Streets were emblaZed with wal
) posters asking for volunteers and de
picting the menace of Bolshevism in
, flaming blood red ink, whwile crowds
cheered and sang as they waved good
bye to troop trains department for the
northern front
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