The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-25
Polish Authorities Report That
More Than 10000 Prisoners
Have Been Captured.
BALFOUR WARNS sovIETs
Russian Emissaries Plan to Quit
England Because of Italian
/. English Note.
(The Associated Pre...l

Warsaw, Aug. 24.-With the capture
of Lomza and Bialystok, all the var
ious government districts, except two,
are declared to have been cleared of
Bolsheviki, according to the official
communique issued today. In the re-
manning occupied sectors to the north
the Bolsheviki are crossing the Prus-
sian frontier in great numbers.
In this sector the thirty third Rus
sian division has been smashed, many
Red detachments have been cut off
from retreat and are gradually being
gathered in.
General Pilsudsk has issued an ap-
peal to the peasants to aid the army
and urges the peasants to make pris-
oners in all cases and turn the Reds
over to the soldiers.
Military authorities declare that
since the Polish offensive began more
than $4,000 prisoners, 200 guns and
1000 machine guns have been taken.
London, Aug. 24.-Arthur J. Balfour,
lord president of the council, on behalf
of Premier Lloyd George last night
sent to Leo Kamaneff Russian soviet
representative here, a copy of the
commrtnique issued in Lucerne as a
result of the conference of Premiers
Lloyd George and Giolitti.
Mr. Balfour pointed out that, ac-
cording to the latest information, the
Bolshevist terms to Poland funda-
mentally contradict those Kamaneff
communicated to Great Britain re-
Gently. Mr.. Balfour asked If this
information was correct, ands if so,
whether the Bolshevists intended to
adhere to the new terms.
An answer by Friday evening at the
latest was asked for by Mr.. Balfour,
who cited the urgency of the matter
and said that on the answer to these
questions depended the future policy
of Great Britain.
NJ Kameneff, head of the Russian
soviet mission here, is preparing to
leave England, according to the Daily
Herald. This action is attributed to
the Lucerne decision by the British
and Italian premiers and Balfour's let
ter to NJ Kameneff.
Warsaw, Aug. 24-The capture of
Prsasnysz, 60 miles north of Warsaw,
and Nlawa on the Polish frontier 10
miles northwest of the capital is re-
ported in the Polish official statement
issued last night. The bulk of the
fourth soviet army and the entire third
cavalry corps have been surrounded
by the Poles, the statement says.
London, Aug. 24.-Russian Bolshevik
forces in the regions of Lomza, about
75 miles northwest of Warsaw and
Bialystok. about 63 miles northwest of
st-Litovsk, are engaged in heavy
lighting against advancing Polish le
sions, according to an official state-
aaent issued yesterday in Moscow and
Received here today
Berlin, Aug. 24.--The German bor-
der troops are calling for reinforce
ments as they are unable to control
the increasing tide of Russian soviet
soldiers who are crossing the frontier
and expressing the desire TO be in
termed, according to dispatch from
Allenstein, east Prussia, today.
Among the troops escaping into
Germany are many Chinese and Cir
cassians. the dispatch says. The COM
nlander of the 54th Russian brigade,
accompanied by the chief of stan and
the staff members, crossed the Ger
man frontier at Kamerau, where
troops of the, Russian 18th division
also are arriving. The Russian OFF,
,ers took the train to Neidenburg. "a
miles south of Koenigsberg, where
hey were taken in charge by reich
swehr troops.