Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-18
POLES, FIGHTING DESPERATELY, TAKE
 STRATEGIC POINT
Regain Radzymin, Center of Battle for Several
 Days
WARSAW REMAINS IN
 CONTROL OF POLES
Reds Lose Many Prisoners. and
 Abandon Booty in Retreat

warsaw, Aug. 154-A feature of the lighting on the Warsaw front is the struggle for possession of Radzvmin to the northeast of the capital. At last accounts the Poles had retaken haaZymIn Tn counter stroke deliv- cred this afternoon and had pushed the bolsheviki northeastward. The Poles are now holding a line about a mile on the other side of the town. which has been pretty well shot up by the bolsheviki artillery.
 Radzymin has changed hands four or five times, being between the lighting lines of the last few days. The Reds in this sector are using in- lantry, numerous machine guns. ar- tlllcry and cavalry. Allied observ- CTS stood on hill today and watch ed the bolshevik cavalry chase the Poles from woods just east of Radzy- min. Then they report the Poles made stand, drove back the cavalry into a thicket and turned artillery fire on them.
 In the fighting in the region of kadzymln, northeast of Warsaw. the Poles have taken many prisoners. in- cludlng bolshevik commissary and brigade commander. During the bat tie here Polish chaplain of the eighth infantry division, Ignacy Kor- upka, was killed while leading the attacking forces clad in his church robes and with crucifix in his hand. Five Polish officers were al- so killed and eleven were wounded. French tactics are being used thru out the counter action
 The Poles are bringing into play defense line and are awaiting com pletion of the arrangements to strike at the soviet forces with q rush of artillery, followed by repeated in- fantry attacks.
 Poles Retain Initiative.
 Paris, Aug. 17.--Warsaw is holding out well, according to the latest news received here tonight. The Poles wko were beginning to repeat their old despairing cry of 1881, "God is too high and France too far,' forti- fled by the counsel of Frances ex- pert soldiers, have now picked up spirits with immediate effect.
 While it is too soon to forecast the favorable issue of the great bat tie now raging under the walls of the capital, the Poles appear to re- tain the initiative they took Satur- day and continue to hold the bolshe- wiki in check. In the southeast. on the western Bug, they have scored notable successes. Nevertheless, the situation, with Warsaw threatened from three sides, undoubtedly re mains serious and everything de- bends on the ability of the Poles to keep up their aggressive tactics.
 It is consideration significant in military circles that the Moscow wire less has been unusually silent to- day.
 Tireless efforts by the Poles to push back the invading bolsheviki have resulted in the capture of im- portant strategic positions. Three days ago the Polish forces faced an extremely critical situation, with the Red center virtually reaching the outer forts of the capital. On the right wing the soviet troops had cap- tured the Pultusk-Serock bridge head, driving the Poles from the fork where the Narew joins the Bug.
 Sunday, however, the Poles launch- ed counter-offensive from Novc Georgievsk, clearing the north bank of the Narew, and yesterday they re- captured the Serock bridgehead be- fore the bolsheviki had time to es- tablish themselves. Operations are now proceeding against the Pultusk forts.
 The bolsheviki in their retreat abandoned considerable booty which has not yet been inventoried. Oper- ations by the Polish right against the Wiepez and the middle Bug con- tinue according to plan.
 Reds Invade Rumania.
 Constantinople, Aug. 17.-Rumania has not been actually invaded by or- ganized bolshevik forces, but rowing bands are overrunning her north- eastern frontiers, causing great un- easiness, say observers who have just returned to Constantinople. Ruman- ia, they add, is holding her entire army ready to resist an invasion and there are constant rumors in the country of general mobilization.