The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-07-31
Russians Attacking With vio-
lenCe Along Entire Polish
FrontierDriving on
Warsaw.
ALLIES WARN SOVIET
Continuance Hostiiities Jeop-
sardizes Proposed General
Peace Conference
in London.
in London.

London. July 3i.--U. N. S.)--Althougl
the Polish armistice envoys are reporte,
to. have crossed the Russo Polish line
last night and active negotiations for /,
truce were to begin this morning. off
cial dispatches to the British govern
ment indicated that the Russian sovie
troops were pressing their attacks will
violence along the entire Polish frontier
The Russians are reported to have
taken Lomza, seventy-fiye miles north
east Of Warsaw. II 1t Is confirmed. thii
seizure would constitute direct attach
upon Polish territorial integrity The
allies hpve already warned soviet Rus
sia of the serious consequences of in
yading the Polish territory inside the
demarkation line.
Up to noon the foreign office and the
war office had received no official news
OF the opening of actual armistice ne
gotiations between the Polish and Rus
sian delegates either at Baranovitchi
or Brest-L -Litovsk.
The action of the Russian high COM
mand In, continuing assaults against
the Polish line over fifty-mile front,
despite the fact that the soviet govern
nient at Moscow had officially accepted
PolaHd's request for an armistice and
cessation Of hostilities, is jeopardizing
the proposed general peace conference
OF Russia and the Russian border states
A note from the italian government
, regarding, the Russian situation Is on
the way to London. 1t is understood
that Italy has pledged herself to con-
form with the Anglo French decision on
the conditions Russia must accept to
enter general parley at London.
a wireless dispatch received here at
10 o'clock reported that the Russians
had reopened their drive north of War.
saw and had seized Lomza Lomza is
If Cf nf ha
Polish. capital and Is but twenty miles
from the, sGerman frontier. .-,..
The Polish army envoys left Warsaw
late Friday for Baranovitchi and ex-
tween 8 and o'clock for formal ex-
change. OF introductions, said o dispatch
from the Polish capital
Members of the Polish armstice dele-
CATION expressed the hope when they
left Warsaw that the soviets' terms
cepted without lengthenings so that the
news could be flashed to the world that
fighting had at last come to an end on
the battle, front. ~
Reach Brest. .Lltovsk. e.
+ Continued successes for the bolshe-
Wiki against the, Poles are announced
In an official statement issued Friday
by the Russian soviet government at
Moscow and received here today by
wireless. The statement says that the
bolsheviki. advanced to Brest -Litovsk
on Thursday. t-..--
The Russians have occupied Pru-
sha1y Gao miles east of Warsaw. Our
energetic advance has carried our troops
to Brest -Litovsk. tgNseg fr9
The communique. which was timed
Moscow Saturday morning. shows that
tho red army Is rolling back the Poles
despite the dfmistice. The text fol-
lows:
s.siIxyA ta,,o ooo,,n,o5 1o;oto.+ni. ran
miles northeast of Warsaw. t1
"In the direction of Bielsk (100 miles
northeast of Warsaw we have forced
the Narva river after fierce fighting"