Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-27
EIGHTY THOUSAND
RUSSIAN SOL D|ERS
CAPTURED BY POLES
Killed Number 10000, and 10000
Reported Interned in East
Prussia.
BATTLE RACES FOR
BREST-LITOVSK FORTS
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London, Aug. 27.-The Poles and Rus
SLAMS are fighting fiercely for the forts of
Brest-Litovsk, says Soviet statement
received here by wireless today In the
Iemherg sector violent fighting IL com
tinu,ng with the iluctuating results, the
statement adds.
Berlin, Aug 26.-Tbe number of
Russian Soviet soldiers who hnvu fed into
East Prussia from Poland nov is estimated
at T5,0Do Many were accompanied by
women and children.
The ministry of defense viii send them
TO camps ia the interior via Baltic ports.
There are still 10000 former Russian
war prisoners in various German camps
and the food and quarantine questions
present difficult problems.
Paris, Aug. 27.-The foreign ministry
announced today that France had eoun-
seled Poland TO attain the best strategical
military position until peace is signed re-
gardess of her ethnographical frontier
because the military situation will in
fiuence the peace terms.
France has advised Poland however, TO
withdraw her armies within the Polish
frontier upon the signing of peace.
General Weygand, who is credited with
the Polish victory, is quoted by Warsaw
correspondent OF the Petit parisieh as
saying the Poles should not advance too
far eastward but should entrench along
line that can easily be held If peace is not
concluded before winter.
Eighty thousand Soviet soldiers have
been captured in Poland, 40, 600 killed and
30,o00 interned in East Prussia, accord
ing TO the latest report received from the
French mission in Poland
Warsaw, Aug. 27-Russian Soviet
troops who took refuge in Prussia are
fighting the Poles along the frontier. An
official statement today says that two
Soviet batteries hauled into Prussia by
the retreating Russians, fired upon the
Poles and that the Soviet forces are also
using machine guns against the Poles on
this sector Polish troops who have
reached the frontier have been cautioned
by their commanders not to fire upon
German territory.
The Poles have reached the region of
Kobrin, IS miles northeast of Brest-
Litovsk and In a surprise attack took
100 prisoners, four guns and the entire
staff Of the 57th Soviet division.
In continuation of the long drawn out
campaign to capture Lemberg the Soviet
forces have reached Zadworze, just east of
Lemberg where the Poles have repulsed
repeated attacks.
The Warsaw press is becoming pessi-
mlstic regarding the Minsk peace nego-
tiations. The newspapers, with the ex-
ception of te Socialist journals express the
belief that the moment is propitious to
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circles there are indications of an increasing
feeling that negotiations will come to
nothing. The militarists are advocating
of the war to compel the
Soviets to seek terms Observers here say
they believe the public generally desires
peace.
Warsaw, Aug. 26.-General Tuchats-
chewski, 2S years old, known as the
Soviet Napolean" has been relieved of
his post as commander-in-chief of the
Bolsheyik army on the Polish front be-
cause of his failure to take Warsaw, ac-
cordlng to information given the press
here. Leon Trotzky, Bolsheviki minister
of war and marine, has personally taken
of the army, it is reported by
Bolshevik officers who have been taken
prisoner.
Berlin, Aug. 27.-At today's sitting of
the Danzig State Council, Sir Reginald
Tower allied high commissioner, stated
that the last few weeks had shown peace
and order had not yet been restored in
Danzig and that the constitutional assem-
blys recent resolution concerning neu-
trahty was unwarranted as Danzig is
not yet free state according to advices.
He charged the assembly with hamper
ing the transport of munitions for Poland
and the return of Poles to their country.
He added that if more foreign troops were
landed it was the fault of the people of
Danzig themselves because they had not
the terms of the peace treaty
md the town would have to pay the cost of
the increased occupational force.