The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-08-13
NEAR WARSAW
SOVIET TROOPS REPORTED
CLOSE TO CAPITAL
Poles Statement Ayers To Have
Determined To Defend City
... At All Costs

. At All Costs
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.1
Paris, August IA great bat
tie Is In progress on the Russo
Polish front upon which hangs
the fate Of Warsaw, according to
Information reaching the French
foreign office today.
Warsaw, August 11.-11 p. M,
The Poles have launched a coun-
ter offensive with bayonets in
the region of Pultusk, where the
Russians have been striving to
break the Polish defensive lines.
Pultusk is thirty one miles north
of Warsaw.
johannesburg, East Prussia, Au-
gust 11.-Reports rnar Mlawa, an
important city on the Warsaw Dan
zig railway, was taken by the Rus
sian bolsheviki on Tuesday and that
soviet cavalry was within rifle shot
of Warsaw. the fall OF which was
expected Thursday or Friday, were
brought here today by correspond
emit OF the Koeningsburger Zeltung.
There have been no Official dispatch
es indicating the soviet armies have
taken MlaWa, The most recent ad-
vices from the fighting area have
shown the bolshevlki TO be some
thirty miles from the Polish capital.
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aas paeyluf Uh sne popuiations &C
'o pmas;. 70 roasnevlK reports.
dan .sis TOWN. 1or Is M as :, occupied Sol
west OF Mlawa, by consent OF the
German lnnaOatants, according to
ruHiors mere.
eoisn Httaek Wrangel:
ConstSnlIhopie' august l0.-Bol-
sneVikl forces IN southern Russia and
SSa as ~ t1e extreme hanks OF
T W baron Wrangers army north
y; u Csemean peninsula; according to
uiSpaIcnes received Ia tnls city.
ooa hlee sovist DIVISIONS, totaillng o.
susl at AiesnKl, almost directly
Ids tne sream from the city OF
1ersou anu advanced southwark.
IMo DoisnevlkI cavalry columns, sup
poitSu ny uIahuy, are advancing
gu from AIeVan1roYsk along
ene "esl sue Oh tne railway leading
sou'n 10 Cremea. ms Is on the east
e enm eno Oh the soutn RUSSIAN battle
iion'. Ar
w All forces On Duty.
Msaw. August il.-hundreds OF
conveyances OF all descriptions load
% WIN DarDeo wire ana driven BY
Dols ana oi9 men, are streaming
UNJUST ue f0n capitol toward the
DaCue Iront. Mingled with them along
lne roaos are enosess trains OF supply
wagons wnlcn are guarded oy elderly
SI armed w1tn nnes: Al! able
ovSeo men are neins renewed from
o.nsr ouies SO tnat tney may be
ta aae a a, n tne nsnt for the de-
wouen soioers are nurrying nom
place 10 piaca aoung as coEiers,
a an rIsnSn mlntary mission officers
aIe showing extreme actlv1ty, racing
afouIo tne CITY automobiles.
N0t 10 Count Cost
NJ, AS tne ngnting 'front.' draws nearer
WaisaW squaos or cluzens, wearing
sneir IrolnaIy clynAsn clothing and
s s.a na.s' out armed Win rines, are
9IinIns many parts or the city.
and Weu-to. 90 merchants are seen
marching SIDE by side with the more
usual type OF lighter IN the ranks.
Newspaper accounts Of the prep
arat1ons declare that the spirit Of
the people Is to defend Waraaw 70