Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-28
ARTILLERY
DEC|MATES COLUMN
OF RETREAT|NG FOE
Reds Making Desperate Stand az
Grodno, Concentrating All
Available Forces.
GENERAL WEYGAND
CAUTIONS VfCTORS
BY Associated Press 70 Evcry Eveninz

BY Associated Press 70 Every Evening
Warsaw, Aug. n Polish artillery has
decimated the principal column Of retreat
ing Soviet forces on the northeastern
front, catching the BOlsheviki AZ short
range, according 10 an official statement
issued here More than GOO men including
two general staff officers and cls'en lIne
officers have been captured Among the
killed we're the commander of the hfiy-
seventh Bolshevik division and hls chini
Of staff
Detachments Of the Polish third legion
division which are fighting east Of the
Bug River near Brest-Litov5k have be-
come engaged in an energetic defensive
action in anticipation o. q Soviet attack
| against that city.
Repeated Bolehevik attacks N the rr-
| gion Of Lemberg have been repulsed but
| fighting continues IN the vicini'y Oi
, Dzielwoon, 80 wen az along the Bobrka and
! Swirz Rivers
The celebrated communist, Wicra levin
/ has been caught by the Poles ~ kedz'n
/ and executed according the newspaper
| Paris, Aug 2s.-W Willingness n transfer
/ the Russo-Polish peace negotiations
/ from Muak 10 3 neutral country ls eN-
+ pressed in 4 wireless message from Mos
COW picked up BY the ETfel tower station
today.
london. Aup. "a Only 34oOo Bol
I shevik soldiers have entered Prussia and
I been interned, according 70 an official
\ announcement made IN Berlin, says
I dispatch
Paris. Aug. % The Bolsheviki arc
making a desperate stand A. Grodno,
according 70 p statement - the f"reigl
/ Ministry here The statement added
that al available BoishevIk troops are
f being concentrated ~ CTodno and great
I battle Is expected shortly extending from
/ that place to Brest-Litovsk.
/ Bolshev1k reaction against Polish armies
/ along the front east of Warsaw Is not
expected. a. least for the present, ~
/ Cen. Wevgand, who is credited with hsv-
I ing directed the defense ~ the Poiisn
caT3ital and hurled the SOVIET armies bark
from that city. according ~ tho Warsaw
correspondent 81 the Petit Parlslen.
Cen. Wevgand Is quoted a. saying
the Poles should not advance TOO far
eastward. bnt should intrench them
selves along a line that can - easily
held. 80 that they may De able % le-
sist any effort on the part q -oViet
I kff~<fN 70 trtEK WNfhNtsftAs-+&
against them IN future.
4Tt a most difficult 70 be = prophet
AZ fhis moment. the correspondent
quotes the General as saylnE, bur
seeinn that Gen Wrangei, n south
Russia. Is going well, ] hope the boisie-
Wiki VIII not be able to flnd any CONSIDER
able forces 10 bring against Poland hl-s-
sja possesses vast resources. out Ne can
for the moment. feel reassured. for ne
/ BoIshevlki undoubtedly used everything
available 70 take Warsaw hos -
sources were mediocre, cspeclhhy ~
artillery. a large part OF which has neen
/ captured BY the Poles. AZ the beginning
Of their offensive, however. tney haa
everything in their favor yet were usAtei,,
Cen. Wrangel seems strong anu vel
equipped and IN his progress, which y NOT
haphazard but systematic, one gets the
IMPRESSION that be is administering skii-
fuIlv in occupied territories 50 that ne viii
not. ike Gen. DenikIne, leave revolt De-
hind him.
We may then, De optimistic, ana /
leave Warsaw with an excellent impres-
sion OF the situation and tUl oi nope
bat am convinced that hard work Is
needed TO make the Polish Army worthy
IF peace is not concluded before
winter the Poles should estapilsA tuc4ti-
selves in positions that would enaoie
them to resist vietoriously a possible
future offensive. They should not % tor
far. however. but should choose strong
lire and build up an organization behind
it so as to be prepared for any event'l'liiiy
Where that line should be | do not knov.
and if [ did would be very careful
not 10 give any information regArdlng -
Warsaw, Aug 2S-Part Of the tnlrd
, Russian Soviet cavalry corps ana "a
: detachment Of infantry, according 70
the latest news from the stall vest "a
kolno. near the east Prusslan border
irving TO fight their WAY through me
Polish forces.
, In the vicinity Of NIlswa the Poios tooN
5000 prisoners and three guns. he
pursuing Polish armies have retaken
Ossowicc and Graievo. % the northve~,
OF Bialvstok and are continuing eat"aTd
, ia the direction Of kobryn, east q brv>' :
| Iitovsk la this region the Poles captured
l,2OO Soviet reinfOTCementS-
; On the southern front around Lemot <
: the Poles have reached the outskirts
( OF Krasne and have occupied Przemysiany
: TO tn, southeast of Lemberg