New-York tribune., 1920-08-02
Fortress of Lomza and
Two Towns Near Ger
man Border Reported
Captured by Bolshevikl
Haller's Defense
Encourages Allies
Fear Felt for Troops al
Brest-Litovsk, Which II
Said to Have Fallen

ated Press 1.-THE Russian Soviet
army is now within seventy-fiva
miles of Warsaw. 1t has captured
Lomza, which is just that distance
northeast of the Polish capital, and
the towns of Kolno and Szcuczyn,
near the German border in tina
Lomza region.
In spite Of these ana other Bolshe-
vik successes, military experts of tfa
Anglo-French mission in Poland arc
reported to De optimistic because O..
the remarkable stiffening in the re,
sistance of the Polish northern army
under General Haller.
Concern Over Fourth Army
The chief concern of the experts 10
the position of the Fourth Polish
Army, defending Brest-Litovsk. but
Polish advices declare the pressure
upon that army will be relieved
shortly by the Polish counter offen-
sive which is being directed north
eastward from the region of Brody,
northeast Of Lemberg.
A large number of ships is arriving
at Danzig daily from French and
British ports with munitions, which are
being unloaded rapidly and rushed to
the Polish front, according to word re-
ceived here. An efficient unloading
system has been organized by the Allied
experts, and in putting this system
into effect French, British and Polish
workers are laboring side by side
without interference, it is declared.
Brest-Litovsk Reported Taken
LONDON, Aug. 1.-The fortress Of
Brest-Litovsk, the stronghold 10 miles
east of Warsaw on the boundary Of
Poland proper, is reported to have been
captured by the Russians, according to
a wireless dispatch from Berlin to-day.
The reports, says the Berlin message,
came from eastern Germany, and de-
clare that Brest-Ltovsk has been
taken by the Bolsheviki. after only
slight resistance from the Poles, and
that the Soviet forces were continuing
their advance toward Warsaw and
Lemberg.
The Bolshevik cavalry on the Ger
man eastern frontier, the message adds,
has been withdrawn and started in the
direction of Warsaw.
Fridays official Soviet communioue
from Moscow, transmitted through
London Saturday, while it did not
claim the capture of Brest-Litevsk, in
dicated that the Soviet forces had
reached that fortress in their forward
movement against the Poles. The
statement said: 1--WE occupied Pursuant
Tuesday and advanced to Brest-Ltovsk
Thursday.'
Reds Occupy More Towns
A continuance Of the Bolshevik ad-
vance west of Bialystok, with the or
cupation of towns and villages. is re-
ported in Saturdays communique OF
the Russian war Office at Moscow, re
ceived here to-day. 1t reads:
SIN the direction of Lomza (seventy-
forced the rivers Boboff and Nareff.
"West Of Bialystok oar advance is
continuing successfully. To the souta
of Bialyseok we occupied Bielsk.
"In the region of the Belovezh Forest
we occupied Belovezh station. North
east of Kovrin we have broken the
enemys stubborn resistance and oc-
cupied a series of villages"
Poles Repulse BoIsheviki
WARSAW, Aug. (By The Associ-
ated Press Bolshevik forces, which
have been concentrated on the banks
of the Narew River, with the apparent
object of driving to Warsaw along the
Bug River, have begun a series of
strong attacks, according to Polish
communicate issued here to-day. The
statement adds that the Poles have
repulsed the Bolsheviki with heavs
loss in a sector near Topieloe, the f IS
slams abandoning eleven machine guns
and leaving 500 dead.
A desperate struggle is going on
west of Bialystoks on the Brest-
Litovsk Railroad, for possession of the
line running through Torczeja and
Lubina and along the Rivers Nurets
and Zerzyce.
The fighting in the Brody region is
reported by the statement as favor
able to the Poles.
No Word of Truce ENJOYS
Nothing has been heard up to this
hour from the Polish armistice nego-
! tiators since they were swallowed up
in the darkness within the Soviet Rus
sian lines at O'Clock Friday night, on
their way to meet the Soviet armistice
envoys.
While the crossing of No Man's
Land was arranged to take place AZ
| p. m, there was an hours delay, due
to a misunderstanding in signals.
owing to the difference in time kept
| by the two armies, and the Poles were
obviously agitated by the wait inn
posed upon them before the jump-o II
from the Polish front TO the Soviet
| lines.
! The crossing was made in quiet
sector, in the region of Kobryn Seven
Polish automobiles bore the ennis
saries. The cars carried white fag..
| The motor bearing General Romer
the head OF th1. delegation, wens cv,:
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