Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22
! iREDS PLAN STAND
!. . AGAINST POLES ON
| RUSSIAN FRONTIER
SoIdau to Be Scene OF De-
cisive Encounter, Is
Report.
SOVIET STRIKES TO CUT
WARSAW W-DANZIG LINES
Strong Force Attacking Towns
I Near vistula, Facing Power
full Defenses.
.6y the Associated Press.

.cBy the Associated Press.
BERLIN, August 21.-A special dis
kpatch to the Berliner Lokal Anzeiger
from its correspondent on the East
SPrussian border states that the soviet
hstaff has ordered the civilian population
ito evacuate Soldau, on the Polish
s>frontier, expecting that the town will
be a battle-ground within the next few
days
The newspaper correspondent ex-
i~presses the belief that the bolsheviki
will bring up heavy reinforcements.
He reports the Poles used their ar
tillery effectively on the heights west
of Strasbourg, on the Polish frontier.
A special dispatch from Allenstein
declares the Inhabitants of Soldau
have been warned by a Polish aviator
that the city will be bombarded. The
message adds that Soldau's popu-
1ation is in turmoil anticipating that
the Poles will wreak vengeance for
their jubilation when the bolsheviki
occupied the place. A citizens COM
mittee. headed by a former German.
Mayor Satuchel, has been succeeded
by revolutionary government headed
by a woman named Mueller.
The bolsheviki at Soldau are forti-
flying themselves in the vicinity Of
the city. drafting male and female
civilians for the work of digging
trenches.
10000 Reds Captured.
PARIS, August 21.-In the princi-
pal theater of operations on the
Polish front Poles are debouching
from Denblin and advancing in the
direction of Brest-Litovsk. They have
reached the valley Of the Middle bug.
The prisoners taken by the Poles in
the last few days aggregate 1900.
The large amount of war material has
not been estimated. Many guns, witk
their carriages, have been abandoned
in the forests
The chief operations are now going
on in the forests of the Bug river.
from which the bolshevik troops, de-
feated before Warsaw, are retiring
hastily. The Polish army, advancing
in the direction of Ostralenka, has as
its objective the cutting Of communf-
cations between the bolsfevik CEN
ter and right. Thus it is between
Ostralenka and Lomza, on the marshy
land bathed by the Narew, that the
enemy probably will make his last
effort before the fate of the red army
in the north, the situation of which
10 extremely grave. is decided.
Soviet Faces Disaster.
In imitation of the maneuver exc
sheviki have Withdrawn strong
section of their forces to attack
Thorn and Wloclawek, cross the Wis.,
tula and cut communications be-
tween Danzig and Warsaw. These
troops have encountered a fresh Po-
lish army formed in Posmania and
Pomerania. which debouched from
Graudenz and Thorn. Meanwhile. an.
other army, under direction of Gen.
Billotte, advancing from Modlin,
has attacked them from the south.
Finally a third army, under Gen.
Hikorski. is defending the Narew
river. endeayoring to cut of these
troops from their single road of re-
treat in the north.
Scattered over nearly one hundred
miles along the frontier Of East
Prussia. between Strasbourg and Os-
tralenka, these red forces seem con-
demned to annihilattion unless they
take refuge on Prussian territory.
Advance In Galieia.
In order to diminish the pressure
in the main theater of operations be-
tween the Narew and the Bug. the
bolsheviki have undertaken a DEM
bnstration on the Galician front, at
lacking the Polish and Ukrafnian
positions on the Stripa- Their cavalry
has crossed the upper courses of the
Bug and Cossack patrols are appear
Ing some leagues before Lemberg
This operation. however. is consid-
ered in military quarters as too be-
lated to effect any changes in the
eituation on the middle Bug or to
Affect the issue of the battle now 60
ing on north of the Narew, in which
the fate of the main bolshevik armies
Yapparently is being decided
The high Polish command is report
!. ed to be fully aware that the forces
of the bolsheviki have taken precau-
tions to prevent q surprise
Poles Name Terms.
WARSAW, August 21.-It is not be-
1ieved here that the recent Polish.
Russian military successes will ma
terially change the program of the
Polish delegation at present treating
with the bolsheviki in Minsk. The
newspapers express the belief that the
bases of peace remain as follows:
First-Poland will claim only the
territories inhabited by a majority of
Polish and Catholic population. (The
soviet government does not contest
this point)
Second-Poland will claim for the
peoples once forming a part Of ancient
Poland the right freely to determine
their lot
Third-The decla ration OF the soviet
government on these points, which
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