New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-06
W rangel 11urls
S0viiets Back
Upon Dnieper
Further Successes Reported
for Anti-Reds North of
the Crimea; More Recruits
From Warsaw Join Them
Lithuanians Attack Poles
Each Side Blames Other;
Boundary Conference at
Kovno Is Gale d OFF

CONsrANTINOPLE, Sept. 5.-Fresh
successes by General Wrangel against
the Soviet forces north of the Crimea
are reported in dispatches received
here. General Wrangel, it is declared.
is throwing back the Bolsheviki upon
the Dnieper.
The counter offensives of General
Wrangel have succeeded in Taurida
Province, Crimea. The Bolsheviki, how
ever, are attacking with increased
forces in the peninsula region, and
also are pressing back WrangePs troops
from Ekaterinodar.
A Bolshevik mission has arrived in
Angora. 1t includes the Tartar Ivasoff
and Nouri Pasha, brother Of Enver
Pasha, the Young Turk leader.
Advices received from Trebizond
show that the Bolshevik propaganda is
making Roadway slowly. Assurances
have been given that the lives of Amer
spected. The Nationalists continue to
enlist troops and to levy taxes and
seize food.
Turkish families continue to abandon
their homes in Thrace and move into
Bulgaria.
WARSAW, Sept. 5.-Another detach-
mont Of anti-Bolshevik Russians left
Warsaw yesterday to join General
Wrangel. The detachment is travelling
by way Of Rumania and the Danube.
Eighteen thousand men have gone from
Warsaw SO far to take up arms with
the Wrangel forces.
Last nights Polish communicate as
serts, with regard to the fighting be-
tween the Polish and Russian Soviet
forces, that between Wlodowa and
Dubienka, on the center Of the front,
the Russians launched an attack with
the intention Of forcing a crossing of
the Bug, but were repulsed.
1t is asserted that the Poles have
learned that at Berzec the Russians
were compelled to fight under the
pressure Of machine guns from the
rear.
Poles Advance on Galician Border
In the region of Beliefs, on the old
Galician border southeast of Zamosc,
the Poles are advancing and repeated
ly breaking the Soviet resistance.
To the east Of Lemberg the Poles
have occupied the railway junction of
Krasne midway between Lemberg and
Brody), after hard fighting.
An attack on Polish forces by the
Lithuanians with machine guns and
artillery in the region of Seiny, thirty
five miles northwest of Grodno, Is an
nounced in Polish reports from the
northern front. The reports say the
attack was unprovoked, and that the
Lithuanians had received orders to oc-
cupy Augustowo.
The Polish press comments on the
Lithuanian action as inexplicable, as
the provisional frontier between Po-
land and Lithuania has not been
reached by the Poles. The latter con-
tend that the Lithuanians are occupy
ing several localities on the Polish
side Of that frontier.
Lithuanian Negotiations End
1t is also announced that the ne
gotations regarding the frontier and
the future relations Of Poland and
Lithuania have been broken off and
that the Polish delegates are returning
to Warsaw. These delegates comprise o
special mission which went to Kovnc
| about month ago to confer with the
Lithuanians. 1t is said the Supreme
Council has been informed that the
Lithuanians propose a new line of de-
narration running through Marggra-
bowa, Augustowo and Szczuczyn.
1t is understood the Lithuanian gov
eminent places the responsibility for
the hostilities upon the Poles, asserting
that the Lithuanians were compelled tt
defend themselves. the Poles, on the
other hand, declare the Lithuanians
opened fire first
Last nights Polish communicate as.
serts that the attack by Lithuanians
upon the Poles was in pursuance of ar
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