The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-25
b0LSHEV|K| CROSS
 PRUSS|AN BORDER
 IN GREAT NUMBER
In Northern Region Two Divisions Are Smashed and Third Taken Pris-
 Oner By the Poles
By Associated Press

London, August 24.-A dis patch to the Exchange ,Tele- graph from Berlin says the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitune publishes report that the Rus sian southern army has com menced a counter offensive which appears to have partly succeeded. The dispatches add that the Poles have been forced back in the corridor" be- tween Mlawa and Chozek, while in the neighborhood of Neidenburg decisive battle is in progress. ... ..... .....
 Berlin, August 24.--The govern
 ing board of the railway workers
 union at Danxig has voted to halt
 ali war supplies arriving at that
 port destined for Poland. It will
 permit the transit only of food and
 sanitary supplies. The governing
 board has appointed local surveill-
 ance boards which also will include
 the stations of ZOpp0t, H0he0stcin
 and Neufahrwasser.
 London, August 24.--A French
 cruiser in Danzig Monday and be-
 gan unloading munitions for Po-
 land. but representations from
 Sir Reginald T. Tower, the high
 commfs ssioner for the League of
 Nations. that he could not be re-
 spOnsi5le for the consequences, the
 unloading was suspended pending
 decision by the allies, says dis
 patch to the London Times from
 Danxis, dated Tuesday.
 Warsaw, August 24.- Lomza, seventy-five m e s northeast of Warsaw, and Bialystok, fifty miles east of Lomza, have been recaptured by the Polish armies, says an official communication issued by the war office here today. in the rema ming occupied sectors in the north the bolsheviki are crossing the Prussian frontier in great numbers. In this region the Eighteenth and Thirty third bolshevik divisions have been SlndSneu, ana <Ali VI lfAS riieS o'.A sAA division have been taken prisoner.
 Ihe Fifth Polish army alone, operat- ing on the northern front, has accountei for more than 10000 prisoners. Including the staff of the Eighteenth and the Fifty fourth divisions, says the communication. The military authorities announce, that the various government ent-districts of Po- land. with the exception of Suwalkie and Grodno, have been virtually cleared of the bolsheviki some of whom. ill the panic of retreat crossed into East Prus- sia. but whether they are interned is not known here.
 Many red attachments have been cut off from retreat and are grafually being gathered in Peasants, armed with hunt ing clubs and scythes. are assisting the Polish soldiers in the process of clean ing up.
 In various parts of the country, par ticuiarly between the Nistula and Prus- s!a, where the bolshevilli have been cut off from their communications, there are organized hunting parties consisting of the members of hunt clubs and others who beat the wooded country in search of the red the same as for wild boar. General Pilsudski has issued an appeal to the peasants to aid in the army and urges the peasants to make prisoners in all cases and turn them over to the sol- diers The military authorities declare that since the Polish offensive began about week ago more than 50,000 pris- orers have been taken.
 RED NORTHERN ARMY
 APPARENTLY TRAPPED
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