Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-21
AMERICA CAUTIONS
POLAND To AVOID
FUTURE AGGRESSION
Reds Admit Being Driven
From Several important
Points-Peace Farley Be-
gan Thursday

gan Thursday
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2O.-Poland
has been warned by the United
States not to repeat her advance into
Russian territory if her army sue
ceeds in driving the Bolsheviki from
Polish territory, it was stated Off
cially here today.
Unless this warning is hseded.
Poland may prejudice her own case
in the eyes of this government, it
was learned.
The attitude of this government is
indicated in the note to Italy out
lining the American attitude toward
the Polish-Russian situation. This
note, while declaring for the "polit-
1cal independence and territorial in
tegrity of Poland" concludes with a
request that the allied and associated
powers declare that the true boun-
dar1es of Russia be respected and
no transgression by Poland, Fin
land or any other power" be per-
mitted
Other warnings have also bee
given the Poles by this government.
CLAIM THAT GERMANS ARE
COOPERATING WITH REDS
WARSAW, Aug. 20.-German cit
liens are cooperating with the Boil
shev1ki everywhere in the invaded
areas, particularly in Pomerania, the
Polish official communique reported
today.
The Reds were said to be employ
ing terrorist" methods to subduc
the anti-Bolshevik population in cap.
tured territory.
Polish troops have pushed the enc
my back, eighty to one hundred miles
from Warsaw.
american aviators operating with
the. Polish armies have been singled
out for praise by President Pilsud-
ski
SOVIET ABANDONS POINT
80 MILES FROM WARSAW
LONDON, Aug. 2O.-The Russian
Soviet forces have abandoned Lukow.
sixty-eight miles southeast of War
saw, and Radin, eighty miles to the
southeast of the Polish capital, ac-
cordlng to Thursdays communiuue,
issued by the Moscow government
The communicate claims that the
Poles We're driven back seven miles
from Cfechanow, forty five miles
northwest Of Warsaw.
The statement reads: -
The fighting at Plonsk (north-
west Of Warsaw, continues. South
west of Ciechanow we have driven
back the enemy. We are seven miles
from Ciechanow.
1--WE have abandoned Lukow and
Radin and fighting is proceeding for
Biela and Wlodawa (Biela is twenty
five miles northeast Of Radin and
Wlodawa forty-two miles southeast
OF Radin). In the Cholm and
Hrubieszow regions southwest OF
Lublin), our advance continues"
Confer on Peace Thursday
The second sitting of the Russo
Polish peace conference at Minsk
took place Thursday and a SUM
mary of Russia's terms was COM
municated to the Poles. They were
substantially the same as those the
Russian delegation published in Lon
don, says a Moscow official state
ment dated Thursday and received in
London this morning.
Stated orders for the conference
were agreed upon.
Toward the end of the session the
Russian delegates protested against
the Poles efforts to drag the negotia-
t1ons, the statement says.
FRENCH SEND BATTLESHIPS
TO AID IN CLEARING DANZI<s
PARIS, Aug. 2O.-The military sue.
cesses Of the. Poles continued yes
terday, according to report to the
foreign. office today from the mill
tary mission in Warsaw. under plans
elaborated by. the, French General
Weygand and his staff of more than
900 French officers.
All these officials are now either
in u command of the forces
Russian Soviet menace or are aiding
the Polish commanders.
1t is considered that French and
Polish cooperation in the commands
ed satisfactory stage. J. j. JUS
serand and Lord d'Abernon, respec-
lively, the heads of the French and
British missions to Poland, have re-
turned to Warsaw from Posen for
a conference with General Weygand
and the Polish staff.
The situation at Danzig Is still
causing worry, but it is expected to
be cleared up when two French bat
tleships, now on the way there, ar
rive and offer Sir Reginald T. Tower,
the allied high commissioner at Dan
zig, sufficient forces to control the
piers and permit the unloading of
Polish munitions.