The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-02
GERMAN TROOPS
SENT TO BORDER
Note to Allies Declares I'M
mediatt Action Now Necessary.
Had Asked Entente Permission
But Received No Reply.
REDS ARE NEARING WARSAW
Lemburg, in Path of Invaders,
May Fall Soon.
Even Polish Women Aid in For
tifying Capital.
SURRENDER is DEMANDED
Terms of Armistice Call for
FiEe-Year Occupation.
Moscow Government Also
Wants All Coal of Nation.

Vienna, Aug. 2-Rumania has
served an uItimatum upon soviet Rus
sia giving the soviet three days to
withdraw their troops from Ruman-
ian territory, according to Belgrade
dispatch received here today.
In the event of Russia's failure to
comply, it is added, Rumania will de-
clare a general mobilization.
Germans send Troops.
Paris, Aug. 2.-Germany has issued
orders for troops to be sent to the
eastern Prussian frontier if necessary
TO guard against Poles and Bolsheviki,
who may carry their warfare across
it. the allies were informed today.
A note to the allies said that the
entente not having replied TO previous
requests for permission to send Ger
man soldiers to the frontier, the Ger
man government had authorized the
commissioner at Allenstein, East Prus-
sfa to send troops to the border II
necessary. The original request, sent
Julv 2I. said Polish-Russian disturb
ances made presence of German troops
on the border imperative.
Doctor Goeppert, head of the Ger
man delegation in Paris, delivered the
note AS the council of anbassa dors
vas not in session, the members being
on vacations. the note was delivered
directly to the French government
Reds Demand Surrender.
London. Aug. with the Boishe-
Wiki demanding virtual surrender OF
Poland as the price of peace, fighting
is continuing near warsaw ana Lem Lem
berg. according to the official com
rnuniques of both sides, received here
today.
Basle dispatch from Bolshevist
sources said the soviet arm1stlce dele-
gates had informed the Polish repre-
senta tives the offensive would not halt
until they had agreed to turn their
country over to Bolshevik military oc-
cupation for five years, surrender all
war material, give up several big cities
and per cent of their railroad equip
30 Miles from Warsaw.
The Bolshevik official statement re-
ceived here today by wireless, showed
the Red troops advancing at Lonlzha,
ninety miles northeast OF warsaw, ana
at Bielsk, one hundred miles east.
1t failede however. to confirm the re-
ported capture of Brest-Litovsk. Ihe
Reds were twenty miles northeast OF
that fortress at KObrin the statement
said.
said the soviet cavalry raiders were
oDerating sixty miles north of that
citv They apparently were scouting
onsiderably in advance of the main
forces and this indicated Polish re-
particular area. The Warsaw COM
InuniGue placed the Bolsheviki at
Rrodv. fifty-eight miles east of Lem
berg. ,.s,-t..
word had come of the Russlan-P olisn
arn1istice negotiations and British OF
ficials were plainly worried IheA
feared the Reds intended to accom-
..plish a complete Polish disaster, rem
dering them absolutely helpless. be-
fore Imposing their drastic terms oi
peae' warsaw Feels Battle.
The hot breath of battle was beine
felt in Warsaw today D1spatche'
from that city told now a sPlIit ~ q
dread crept thru it, as news came ina
the advance of the Bolshevlkl con
+in,-ed unchecked. With Trotzky
armies nenacing the capital from TN
north ard from the east, measures
,ers taken for a desperate defense o
lng s-,'a o,'y y,aon1e went into the fields will
tcl- and shovel and under the direc
zion of army engineers. commences
tbrovying up earth works on all sloes
They labored at top speed, many AeiIi A
inc exhausted Meanwhile, the en-
cheers were driving stakes and mesh
- barbed wire across the pr1nclpa
Ids down which Red cavalry nigh
swoop in a sudden descent upon IN
town a-.,7 so
Newspaper OllACSS WStN
- ~ the Polish armistice delegate
Who. under promise of the Bolshevik
that the international armistiee RUE
vo,11d be obeyed to the letter. had dis
appeared into the mysterious GU
+bere'' bevond the front. someWher
1aL;nd tI7e soviet army's lines an
from whom no word had come sine
the ranks of the Red troops closed a
their heels.
Try to Reform Battle Line.
At the war office. every effort wa
being made to plan reorga nization Q