The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-12
SOVIET FORCES SFALL OF WARSAW
OUT NUMBER THE SEEMS IMMINENT
POLES TWO AN ND.FRANCE- ENGLA AND
HALF TO ON E'OPINIONS D|VERGE
Old Men and Boys Help in
Defense of Polish Capital;
Bolsheviki Encircling
the City

Warsaw Aug. IA communication
issued today by the war office says
there is heavy fighting on either Zip
Of the ill-shaped line which the bol-
shcyiki are trying to bend down
upon the Vistula river, with Warsaw
as the prize. Northwest Of the capi-
tai fighting RACES for the possession
Of Ciechanow. The Polish garrison
at Mawa has repealed repeated Red
attacks.
Between the Narew ana Bug rivers
there is close up fighting in which
the Poles are holding their own. For
the most part the Reds are using
machine guns and rifles
Boys and Old Men Serve
Hundreds of conveyances o. all de.
scriptons loaded wgh barb wire
and driven by boys and old men are
streaming through the Polish cap
ital toward the battle front Mingled
with them along the roads are end.
less trains of supply wagons which
arc guided by elderly civilians armed
with rifles. All able bodied men are
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may be made available for the defense
of Warsaw.
Women soldiers are hurrying from
place to place, acting as nurses, and
French military mission officers are
showing extreme activity, racing
around the city in automobiles
As the fighting front draws nearer,
Warsaw squads of citizens wearing
their ordinary civilian clothes and
straw hats but armed with rifles,
are drilling in many parts of the
city.
As the troops pass through the
streets, many boys in knickerbockers.
elderly men an dwell.to.do merchants
are 10 be seen side by side with the
more usual type OF fighter in the
ranks. The class distinctions are
forgotten or brushed aside.
Newspaper accounts Of the Drepa-
rations declare that the spirit of the
people is to defend Warsaw, repel
the invader and not TO count the cost
in blood The government while it
will not concede that a date has been
set for the evacuation of the city,
is gradually moving away the import
ant state documents, the packing Of
which began several days ago.
TrotslSy With Troops
Leon Trotsky, Russian bolsheviki
minister of war has arrived at Baly-
stok, just behind the soviet front,
and has set up headquarters there.
| according to news from the other side
of the battle line. Speaking in Wilma.
| the capital of Lithunia, recently he
announced soviet Russia had been Of
ficially recognized by the western
powers and that NJ Krassin and Ka-
meneff, heads of the oolsheviki COM
mercial mission TO Great Britain, had
been received atLondon with the Gre
dentials usually accorded foreign am
bassadors. He asserted bolshevism was
more powerful than ever and soon
will spread TO other countries"
'In a year, he continued, "all Eu.
rope will be bolsheyiki."
Warsaw newspapers publish inter-
views with soldiers. who declare the
bolshevik advancing upon this city
claim they have come to exterminate
the burgeoisie, and distribute the land
among peasants. 1t is asserted they
impartially pillage mansions, farms
and cottages and either forcibly enlist
the men in the country or send them
to the rear.
Bolsheviki prisoners say that the
high command OF the soviet armies
fears a reverse before Warsaw and Is
hastily preparing positions of the line
of Grodno, Slodim and Sarny to which
il can withdraw in case of defeat.