Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-08-27
Soviet Russians Put to Rout by
Poles Following Strategy Of
Foch and Weygand.
WARSAW APPARENTLY SAVED
Baron WrangeI Scores More Victories
Over the Reds-Tennessee Legis-
lature Gives Final Touch to
Suffrage Ratificatcn--Mn-
ers and Operators Can't
Agree.
BY EDWARD w. PIckARD.

Once more French military genius
has trumphed over that of the Ger
mans. Following the strategy Of Mar
shal Foch and General Weygand, the
Poles last week put TO rout the lnvad-
Ing Russians who, If reports are to
he credited, are directed in their move
ments by former officers Of the Ger
man army.
At this writing the final outcome of
the struggle cannot safely be predict
ed for the battle is still in progress.
but all dispatches indicate that War
saw has been saved and that the Dan
zig corridor has been cleared of the
reds. Rejecting the first suggestion
of Foch and Weygand, that they give
up their capital and meet the Rus
slams behind the Vistula, the Poles
adopted the alternative plan of their
French advisers. This was that all
advanced units should be called back
and heavy forces concentrated on
short defensive line before Warsaw:
that the enemy should be permitted
to advance in open order ard TO lin
fltrate," and that the Poles should
then launch counter-attaeks with all
tleir forces and with the aid of
tanks. AT this time the most adj
vanced of the reds were within a few
miles Of Warsaw. Within four days
the Russians were reported as ilee-
ing in disorder along the front be-
tween the yistula and Bug rivers. as
retiring hastily from the Danzig COR
rider and as being pushed back rap
| idly in the southern sector.
The Polish left wing, led ny French
Generals Henry and Billatte in per-
son, drove the Russians out of the fork
between the Rug and Narew rivers,
/ which is considered the key to the
defenSes of Warsaw. and a part of
this Polish force novel swiftly north
ward toward Mlawa, threatening to
cut off the reds who mad advanced
far on the roads to Thorn and Plock,
and reganing control of the direct
rail route between Warsaw and Dan
zig. Airplanes. tanks, armored trains
and artillery were used by the Poles
most effectively and thousands of prls-
oners and great quantities of supplies
were captured.
General Plsudski. chief of the Pol
ish state, led the troops operating east
and south of Warsaw, and this move
ment was considered of the greatest
inheritance because its complete sue
cess would result in the cutting of the
lines of communication of the boil
sheviki. This force was strengthened
bv the shortening o. .he front in Gal
icia, where the Poles continued re-
treating for the purpose of "eleaslne
many units for the battle to the north
By Friday pilsudski was In possession
of I.ukow, Al miles southeast of War
saw, and was going strong.
Ilt lNp movements ~ 49,
concentrated a plncers operation
which promised to force the Russians
altogether out of Poland. The latter
flushed with their successes, seem te
have forgotten the basic principles OF
modern warfare aud rushed aheaC
without regard to their communica
tons and supports, AS though asains
n foe that was already utterly beat
en-. Large bodies got entirely o'; OF
touch with the main forces and wert
easily cut off and captured after the
had been allowed to filter through TIE
Polish lines.
One thing that greatly annoyed botl
pnlond and France was the action o