The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-19
BOIsheVik Army Sent Against
Warsaw May Be Crushed.
LukOw, Al Miles Southeast of
Capital, Retaken.
MANEUVER WAS DARING ONE
Only Marching Ability of Polish
Made Blow Possible.
Women Are Taking Part in the
Front Line Fighting.

Warsaw, Aug. 1S.-Russian soviet
forces are evacuating Brest-Litovsk,
the strongly fortified town on the Bug
river 12O miles east of Warsaw, ac-
cording to advices received here to-
night.
Polish Successes on all fronts, with
exception of the southern battle sec
tor, where the Russian soviet forces
are advancing in the direction of Lem
berg. are reported in the official state
mont on fighting operations issued to-
night.
The statement declares: THE Boil
sheviki retreat north and east of
Warsaw, where the soviet forces were
closely driven by the Poles took the
semblance of a rout at some places,
the communique reports. On the eX-
treme left of the Polish line, however,
and in the region of Lemberg, soviet
advances are recorded"
Northwest of Warsaw the Russian
troops who met resistance at Wlockla-
wek. where they had designed to cross
the Vistula, bombarded Wlocklawek
for hours, the shells damaging the
4 cathedral and the bishops palace.
p Soviet prisoners are pouring into
Warsaw in such numbers that it is be
coming a problem how to care for
them.
The Fifty-seventh, Fifty y-eighth and
Eighth Bolsheviki divisions on the
Warsaw front have been annihilated
and thousands of soviet soldiers made
prisoner. tonights official statement
says,
Reds Flee in Disorder
Russian soviet forces are fleeing
in disOrderly panic along the front
between the Nistula and Bug rivers,
where the Poles are advancing with
success says an official statement is
sued here tonight.
In their counter attack to relieve
Bolsheviki pressure upon Warsaw, the
Poles are using tanks. airplanes. ar
mOred trains and artillery in great
numbers At Novo Minsk, east of
here, and Zrock. to the northeast,
dreds of wagons and vast quantities of
supplies have been captured from the
Bolsheviki, the statement declares
Reds Face Complete Defeat.
Paris. Aug. 19.-The Russian army
will be completely defeated" if the
Poles can maintain their counter
offensive three days longer, according
to official advices received by the
French foreign office from Warsaw
today.
The military situation was described
as continuing most favorably' and
it was declared that the Bolshevik
right wing. north of Warsaw, is in
crushed.
Poles Take Lukow
Lukow, a city Al miles southeast of
Warsaw and II miles south of SeidIce
has been captured by Polish troops in
their counter attack against the left
Awing of the Bolsheviki army before
Ahe Polish capital. SAYS the Warsaw
correspondent of the newspaper Ex-
celsior. His dispatch which was sent
on Tuesday night, declares the Boil
sheviki right wing also is in bad
situation.
The maneuver executed by the Poles
in their counter attack was an exceed
ingly daring one. the correspondent
declares. It consisted in concentrat-
ing heavy columns of troops and de-
livering a surprise attack against the
flank of the main Bolsheviki army.
It was completely successful because
of the ability of the Polish infantry in
marching. and he asserts that very
important consequences of the plan
are expected.
Are EvacuatinS Wilma.
London, Aug. 19.-The Bolsheviki
are evacuating wilma and removing
their headquarters to Grodno. accord
ing to official advices received here
this afternoon.
The above dispatch indicates that,
despite Polish and neutral reports.
the Russians are being routed
on several portions of the front, the
Reds are moving their headquarters
90 miles closer to Warsaw Grodno
is $50 miles directly northeast of War
saw, where the River Niemen strikes
the RussO-POlish boundary fixed by
the treaty of Versailles Wilma is 90
miles beyond Grando, in a straight line
from Warsaw.
Push New Won Advantage.
The Poles were reported today to be
desperately pushing their newly won
advantage over the Russians, in race
against time.
Balanced against continued Polish
successes along nearly the entire 300
mile battle front was the apparently
we'll established fact that President
Pilsudski and General Weygand have