Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-09
Wdrsn1v Forts
Are Under
Fire.
POLISH CABINET
FZEES TOBORDER
Bolshemks Take To,un
Forty Miles From
Polish Capital

LONDON. August 9-The Polish
government is leaving Warsaw, it's
capital. it is asserted in a wireless
dispatch from Moscow, received here
this afternoon.
The cutter forts Of Warsaw have
been under bombardment since Fri
day morning, says wireless dispatch
received from Berlin today. The Poles
are returning the bolshevik fire.
The place to which the government
is being removed. the message says,
is kalisz.
kalisz is the capital of the province
OF kalisz and is about $50 miles west
southwest of Warsaw, close to the
old German border. 1t is on the di-
rect railway line from Warsaw to
Posen, for which latter place all the
left. it was announced in an Associ-
ated Press dispatch from the Polish
capital fled at midnight last night.
PARIS. August s.-Russian cavalry
driving westward from Proasnysz has
occupied Chor, which is within days
riding distance of the Warsaw -Danzig
railroad, which is expected to be reach
ed either at Miawa or Ciechanow late
this evening or early Tuesday, according
to advices reaching the French foreign
Office today.
The soviet cavalry units are report
ed greatly depleted. owing to the ex-
haustion of both men and horses in
the past weeks hard riding.
Counter Attacks Repulsed.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, August 9.-Russian boil
shevik troops have broken into the
town OF Sokolow, about forty miles
east-northeast of Warsaw, and have
captured several points south of
Brest-Litovsk. according to an official
statement issued in Moscow yester-
day and received here by wireless.
At Malkin. a railroad junction on
the Bug river about four miles south
east. Of Ostrow, the bolsheyiki have
beaten off fierce counter attacks by
the Poles, the statement says. 1t
ern front are successfully advancing
toward the Narew river.
In the direction of Siedlce and
Lukow the fighting continues. with
alternate success. the statement says.
On the southern front I. bolsheyik &
on August 6, striking the Polish lines
from Ulodaya to Karytniki village,
advancing to the town of Vladimir
Volhymsk and developing their ad-
vance south of that town. In the
Tarnopol region, in Galicia, the boil
sheviki have driven back the Poles
to the upper reaches of the Stripa
river.
Along the Crimean front fighting
is proceeding favorably to the soviet
army, the statement says.
Violent Battle Mt SiedIce.
WARSAW, August 8.-Soviet forces
striking westward from the vicinity
Of Brest-Litovsk in their great en-
circling movement have cut through
the Polish lines and crossed the rail-
road running between Sokolow and
Siedlce. They reached point west Of
Sokolow, but were there counter at
tackled, and violent fighting is pro-
ceeding. according to an official
counter attack the Poles have taken
some prisoners.
Bitter fighting is reported north
east of Warsaw. where several viii
lagos have changed hands a number
Of times. but the bolshevik forces
miles southwest of Ostrolenka. was
| taken by the bolsheviki, but now is
| in the hands of Poles. who have taken
| up the defense of this town. There is
| heavy fighting along the Bug river
| from Drchiczyn to Wlodzimier-Zwo-
| held. In the fighting along the south
ern front the Poles have, in general,
/ the advantage.
The reds are gradually creeping up
| on Warsaw. They are reported DOW to
| be only sixty kilometers away and
Efforts are still being made by the
civil population to back up the troops
| at the front.
| Railway Next Objective.
| Przasnysz, a city about forty-one miles
directly north of Warsaw, has been
captured by bolshevik cavalry, which is
sweeping in broad lines westward along
| the Prlssian frontier, according to an
official statement issued here tonight.
Smaller detachments are approaching
Mlawa, about nine miles further west,
and some have been reported near
Ciechanow, still nearer this city. This
is one of the most rapid strides the
crossed the Orzyc river in their push de-
| signed to cut the Warsaw-DanZig rail-
way.
All foreign legations in Warsaw left
| for Posen tonight on a special train.
John Campbell White, secretary, and J.
| lPeirrepont Moffit, third secretary Of the
American legation, and the military at
taches will remain in Warsaw for the
present, but the rest of the personnel
left on the special last night.
| Women Have Fled Warsaw.
The only American women remaining
in Warsaw are few Red Cross nurses
and some Y. NJ. c. A. workers.
| The entire police force of Warsaw-one
| thousand strong-armed with new Eng
lish rifles, has left for the front. Their
! places as guardians of the peace in the
capital are being taken by men too old
to fight.
Among. the volunteers who have gone
to the front is Stanislas Patek, former
minister of foreign affairs. He enlisted
as a private in the cavalry.
| Warsaw Is beehive of activity
Supplies for the artillery, cavalry and
infantry constantly are moving
through the streets toward the front
The population believes that great
battle is to be fought on a line Sc
lected by the general staff which will
settle the fate of the city.
Pole Retreat Ordered.
| BERLIN, August s.-Advices from
Marienwerder today state the Polish
upper army command has ordered a
retreat behind the Vistula river and
| that the fighting, which is now Of
fcially reported between the Narew
and Bug rivers. consists merely of
rear guard actions. The Polish vol
unteer army. it is added, is complete
| failure, the Russia ms meeting with no
opposition in crossing the Bug at
! Brest- -Litovsk along a-wide front and
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