The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-08-25
REDS NEGOTIATE
FOR . SURRENDER.
Poles Advancing on Northern
Front-Left Russ Army in
Counter Attacks.
FOOD SUPPLY is SHORT
Result Mass Soviet Prisoners
Taken-Kolno Captured
by Poles.


Paris Aug. 25.-Negotiations looking
20 surrender TO the Poles have been
begun by the northern Russian boil
snevik army, according to a Vienna
Sspa.cn Sns received here. The latest in
advance OF the Polish armies continues
rapidly. aLd that the >bolsheviki seem
anxious only TO lose contact with the
foies' The number of prisoners cap
,,eat 90 1y oonae the Poles is said to approxi-
4 Central News dispatch from Berlin
To-Day TO London said 1t was reported
mat The Russians have commenced
counter attack against the Polish left
nank nsnk and are attempting to recapture
Mlava and Chorzele. The Central News
correspondent quoted reports from Mel
oenburg that decisive battle is devei-
oping.
Poles Near Frontier.
The. advancing Polish troops are ex-
pfecsed to reach the Polish chronological
nounced at the Polish legation. Polish
cavalry is approaching Grodno, i55
mics northeast of Warsaw. The United
S.ates has warned the Poles against
was mapped out by the allies on The
basis OF nationality.
Worried at Number captIves.
The Poles are becoming worried ara
embarrassed by the huge number ~
RUSSIAN prisoners falling into their
nands. said a Warsaw dispatch to the
rrnat a1omdon ~ Daily Express today The
me Polish lines are putting Poland's
1000 supply to a severe strain.
According to the Polish general star |
on Monday night more than 10000 |
hassnah thn ian prisoners had been taken by |
kolno In Hands Of Poles
warsaw, Aug. 24.--(A. P)-Koino, an |
important town near the east Prussian |
yontIer north of Lonza. has been taken
N Folsn iorces which have been |
OF the retiring bolsheviki. More than
10000 prisoners who were cut off from
the main body OF the soviet army have
been captured in this region.
reports from various fronts. particu-
larly the northern sectors of the line. in
oIcate the bolsheviki are demoralized
ana fleeing everywhere in great disor-
der. Gen. Solnokowski. minister of war,
has issued a statement to Polish news
papers. declaring that the soviet armies
have been decisively beaten everywhere,
adding that Of 250.00o bolshevik troops
participating in the offensive for the
capture OF Warsaw. more than 14OO 900 |
have been accounted for, And that
nearly all other detachments have been
shot TO DieceE He estimates the num- |
her OF prisoners at 5000 and the num-
her OF other bolshevk casualties at
10000 Military observers assert the
Polish victory and the successes in the
campaign now heing carried out form
enc OF the most interesting military
strategical problems of recent years.
kossacks Reach Prussia.
4 Two Kossack regiments, have crossed
into east Prussia, northwest of Mlawa,
to escape capture, according to an
m Apf hHy vail
there are Indications that soviet in
fantry units numbering many thousands /
of men have also taken flight across the
frontier at various points. The rem
nant of the Fourth bolshevik army is
surrounded near Mlawa, and while dis
is endeavoring to fight its
way eastward. 1t attacked a Polish ST.
berian brigade near Chorzele. about !
twenty miles north of Przasnysz, but
was repulsed. losing many prisoners.
100000 PRISONERS.
Russian prisoners captured by the
Poles now total 10000, according
to Warsaw dispatch to L'lntran-
sloeant today.
Alternating Success.
Polish and Russian bolshevik forces l
are engaged in local fighting. with al Z
ternating success. from Brest- Litovsk
an official statement issued yesterday r
In Moscow and received in London by I
wireless.
East Of Lemberg, soviet operations /
are said to be developing successfully, Z
the Poles offering resistance and In
against the bolsheviki. In the neigh
borhood OF Halicz. soviet detachments
have debouched along the lesser Lipa
river and fighting is proceeding for the I
of the crossings OF that T
stream. The. statement asserts that "a
fighting favorable to the bolsheviki con- s
tinues on the left bank of the Dnieper t
in the region of Kherson, south RUSSIA. a
Surrendered Without Fighting. s
The commander of the fourth Russian a
army on the battle line in northern Po-
and attempted TO obtain permission Tor .
he passage of his troops into Germany,
% escape capture at the hands OF the
oles but IL was refused. according TO
| ispatches from the front today. Many
If the Russians surrendered without
lighting.
The reds are retreating over the en-
ire battlA front from the East Prus-
,ian frontier to the Stryj river in Ga
icia, in the region of Mlava. The Rus
,ians have been making futile enort Z
o stem the Polish advance between me !
tistula and the East Prussian frontier; =
rhe Poles have captured Ossowiecz ana =
irajewo. The Polish vanguard rs near
ng Grodno Thousands of Russians
ave fed into Fast Prussia. y
Heavy street fighting is reported from y
2ialystok, Gen Weygand, head OF the +
french military mission, who played a
part in directing the Polish n
ounter offensive which saved warsaw r
nd defeated the Russians. has left for
'aris. -
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