The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-21
SIXRED DIVISIONS
ARE SURROUNDED
Rapid Advance Against Reds
Reported From Warsaw.
Moscow Refutes Claim Poles
Hold Brest-LitOVsk.
POLISH COUNTER STILL CROWS
Soviet COmmunique Says Fight
ing Line Stationary at Warsaw.
Fierce Fighting Along the River
Bug, Says Paris.
POLISH COUNTER STILL GROWS

Paris. Aug. 21.-Sfx. Bolsheviki di-
visions consisting of from 10000 70
10000 men are surrounded by Pol
ish forces between Siedlce and Brest-
Ltovsk. according to press dispatches
received here today.
Warsaw, Aug 21-The Russians
have been driven back from Warsaw
at least thirty miles at all points. an
official communique reported today.
General Budenny's Russian cavalry
has opened an attack to capture Lem
berg and has approached to within
miles of that city the statement
said.
Polish progress to the southeast
ward Of Warsaw continues. There are
now no Russians within 80 miles of
the capitol"
Rctake Large Territory.
The Polish armies, continuing their
offensive. have retaken nearly ten
thousand square miles of territory
from the Bolsheviki. it was officially
announced today
The Polish offensive in the direc-
tton Of East Prussia is developing
swiftly" the communique said.
West of Lublin and southeast OF
Warsaw. the Poles recaptured two
thousand square miles of territory be-
4 I
inc to the depth of forty miles.
East of Warsaw on the line of
Novo Minsk. Siedlce and Biala. we
captured more than 1000 square
miles. advancing fifty miles on a 125
milo front"
Poles Make $4,000 Prisoners.
Paris. Aug 21.-The Poles have
taken 5000 BoIshevik prisoners up
to Tuesday. the French war office an
nounced today Yesterday they cap
tured an additional 500 in occupying
Glrany.
F.erce fighting was reported to be
fp progress along the river Bug near
Z e~t-L.tovsk also in the vicinity of
Ciechanof and Plonsk.
Deny Drcst-Litovsk Taken.
Moscow, aug. 81. Cvia wireless to
I.ondon) Fighting is progressing
less than twenty miles from Warsaw,
the Russian official coIpmunique
clc imed tOdav
The statement indicated the Polish
carl al was still threatened on the
eos north and northwest.
Fierce fighting is underway in the,
vicinity of Plonsk $50 miles northeast
or warsaw and Ciechanof us miles
northeast ot PlonsI).' the COM
muuiquo said
In The WerSaw region. fighting IS
going on west of Vyskof (25 miles
north and cas-: of Warsaw and San
is!2vov f20 miles east of Warsaw.
Fighting also is proceeding in the
BrcSt-Litovsl1 region along the west
ern bank of the BuC."
The latter statement would seem
to refute Polish and neutral reports of
recapture of Brest-Litovsk by the
Polcs.)
continues north and northeast of
Warsaw. near Plonsk and Giechanow.
according to Bolshevild official
statement issued yesterday in Moscow
and received here by wireless.
Further to the northeast. the Soviet
and Polish armies are engaged near
Wyszkow and Stanislawow. while in
the region of Brest-Litovsk, fighting is
proceeding along the line of the west
ern branch of the Bug River.
Advancing at Lembcrg
Near Lem berg, the statement says,
the Bolsheviki are developing their ad-
vance after occupying the village of
Gliniany and have advanced to a line
of villages and southeast of Lemberg.
IN the Tarnapol region, eastern Gaicia.
soviet forces have crossed the Stripa
river and have advanced in a westerly
direction. il is declared.
In the Crimean sector, the BoIshe-
Wiki have occupied the village of
Nasilyevka after fierce fighting. dur
ing which they captured an armored
train and its auXiliaries. Farther east
anti-Bolsheviki forces have landed
near the outskirts of Aktyrskaia on
the Sea of AzOv. but soviet troops
have been dispatched to that front
and have engaged in an attempt to
expel the landing forces The fighting
there is said to continue.
Polish Irregulars in Fight.
Berlin. Aug. 21-Comparison OF
somewhat obscure telegrams would
seem TO indicate that irregular Polish
bands and not Polish troops. have
been engaged in fighting reported dur
ing the last two days in the neishbor-
hood Of Kattowitz, upper Silesia.