The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-08-12
POLES MUST Give
UP THEIR CAPITAL
Military Experts in Warsaw Say
City Must Be Evacuated
Within Three Days.
RETREAT IS BECOMING A ROUT
Polish Army Along the Bug Failed
TO Destroy Bridges Behind Them.
Failure Of Farley With
Reds Stuns People.

Paris, Aug. G.-Warsuw win have
TO be evacuated within Il few days IN
the opinion of the French and Brit
ish military experts there, and the
government is expected 10 be moved
within that period, probably to Ora
COW.
The report Of the members of the
military mission, telegraphed here, de-
clared that the Polish army along the
River Bug, had retreated so preclpi-
lately that 1t did not even destroy the
bridges behind it. This river was
Warsaw's line Of defense.
Cracow, Poland. Aug. 6.-Thousands
Of wounded soldiers are taxing hos
pital facilities here, and doctors and
nurses, exhausted by long vigils, are
often dropping beside the operating
| tables. The American Red Cross has
opened an improvised school for nurses
and 800 women are being given a hasty
elementary course.
Warsaw, Aug. 6.-The suspense IN
der which Warsaw has labored for
three days was heightened by the
news that the negotiations at Barano-
vitchi between the Polish and soviet
Russian armistice commissions had
| been without result
The report that the Russian soviet
government insisted that peace con
versations begin at once caused
sensation in political circles.
Announcement was made that Gen.
Romers party was authorized oD,y to
confer with the bolsheyiki on the
question Of an armistlce. This was in
line with the understanding that pre-
vailed when the Polish emissaries left
| this city for the front.
The breaking off Of the negotiations
was due to a misunderstanding, ac-
cordng to the contention Of the Rus
sian soviet authorities in II wireless
| dispatch received here.
The latest communication from the
| soviet suggests the negotiations both
! for an armistlCe and for peace be held
| in Minsk today,
II asks that the Poles send a dele
cation 10 Minsk invested with all the
necessary credentials to negotiate for
peace.
The Poles contend that II will be
physically impossible for them to com
ply with this proposal.
officials Of the American consulate
have packed up their most important
records for prompt shipment from this
city in case the Russian bolsheviki
continue 10 advance. The task of Wis
ing the passports of the hundreds
who desire TO leave Warsaw will cob
tinue until the consulate is forced 10
close.
Outgoing trains for Vienna, Pesen
and Danzig are crowded, and seat res
| ervatiOns are selling at a Nrge pre-
MUM People are fighting to gain
entrance TO the station platforms and
| rush for places TO sit or stand az soon
as the trains back IN. A close guard
is maintained by troops, who inspect
| all persons 10 see that no soldiers de-
part until they bear proper ereden-
tials.
While the Polish delegates hre re-
tracing their steps hOmeWard from
! BaranovitChi, where the conference
with the bolsheviH ended So abruptly,
the bolshcvik troops are reported
everywhere to be pressing their at
tacks on the entire battle front from
the East prussan line on the north to
the region adjacent TO Lemberg In Gu.
licia on the south.
Inside the great battle are the
Poles are hurrIedly preparing de.
lenses. particularly trenches and
harbed-wire entangIements in Cont of
Warsaw.
Many Americans and British sub.
iects, including number Of former
officers. are reported hy the recruiting
officers 10 be enlisting in the Polish
vofentecrs.
London. Aug. G.-The British gov.
eminent Is irrltated over what # be
lieyrs IS soviet Russia's equiyoCatior
over the British suggestion that the
Russians halt Mt the armistice line OF
dcmarcarion IN Poland aud begin
peace negotiations
II has dispatched sh0'., note tC
thr soviet government demanding q
yes or no answer as Ia whether that