Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-09-14
POLES SET TRAP;
ANNIH|LATE RUSS
General Budenny's Army Wiped
Out in Great Battle in
Lemberg Sector.
BOLSHEVIKl ARE OUTFLANKED
Engagement Results in Defeat of So
Wet Troops Along the Entire Gen.
ter Front-Thousands Killed
and Captured.

Warsaw, Sept. 4.-The bolshevik
army of General Budenny, noted cav
airy leader, was annihilated during the
operations in the Lemberg sector which
began August 20 and ended Wednes-
DAY, says the Polish official statement
on military operations issued here on
Thursday.
Isolated deta chments of the BUD
emmy forces succeeded in escaping and
are in disorderly retreat.
/ General Budenny's mounted men
had been endeavoring to break through
the Polish lines and march upon Lub-
lin. They had nearly completed an
encircling movement against Zamosz,
midway between Lublin and Lemberg,
but were outfianked by the Poles and
attacked from the east, the communi-
cation states.
The engagement resulted in the de-
feat of the soviet forces along the en-
tire center of the front, and the Rus
slams were compelled to retreat in dis
order with the Poles in close pursuit
The bolsheviki lost heavily in killed
and wounded, adds the statement, the
Poles capturing thousands of prison
ers, 10 guns, and enormous quantities
of material.
The lighting conferred in the Zamosz
region, the battle taking the CORN of
numerous cavalry clashes with the in
fantry filling in the gaps and attacking
all along the line simultaneously. The
operations were carried out in accord
ance with the Polish battle plans
which had led the Russians into traps
where they were attacked from all
sides.
Besides announcing the victory of
the Poles over Budenny in the Zamosz
battle, the communique reports sue
cesses along the entire center and
southern fronts, where the Russians
were bested in the fighting.
Negotiations for joint operation by
Polish and south Russian forces are
going on between the government here
and Gen. Baron Wrangel.
Cooperation between the Poles and
Ukrainians is declared to be a grave
menace to the bOlsheviki, and it is
said that the latter have shown their
appreciation of this by offering i'm
pOrtant concessions to Poland at the
expense of Lithuania.
These offers, it is asserted, were
made by soviet representatives at semi
official conferences with members of
the Polish peace delegation while it
was in Minsk.
Continued fighting in the region of
Zamosz, As miles southeast of Lublin,
is reported in a Polish official COM
munique.
The northern wing of the Polish
army is reported to be advancing with
out resistance. 1t has captured Gro
dek, says the statement, taking more
than 1000 prisoners.
A group of red detachments operat-
ing east of Cholm for the purpose of
supporting General Budenny's cavalry
was repulsed with heavy loss when it
W tdhS tIlC dSSISSSifC ny
attacking the Poles in the district be-
tween Dubienka and Moniatyez.
Berlin, Sept. 4.-Dr. Walter Simons,
the foreign minister. addressing the
reichstag foreign affairs committee de-
clared that he had been urged to col
laborate with the Russian bolsheviki
against the western powers as means
of breaking the bonds imposed by the
treaty of Versailles, but that after ma
ture reflection he had rejected this
course.
IF we had followed these exhorta-
tons" explained the foreign minister,
Germany would Immediately have be-
come a theater of war. Furthermore,
the disastrous consequences which boil
shevism might be expected to. bring
with it would have fallen with double
force upon Germany"