Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-08-13
POLES MUST Give
UP Their CAPITAL
Military Experts in Warsaw Say
City Must Be Evacuated
Within Three Days.
RETREAT IS BECOMING A ROUT
Polish Army Along the Bug Failed
to Destroy Bridges Behind Them
Failure of Farley With
Reds Stuns People.

Paris, Aug. 6.-Warsaw will have
to be evacuated within few days, in
the opinion of the French and Brit
ish military experts there, and the
government is expected to be moved
within that period, probably to Cra-
COW.
The report of the members of the
military mission, telegraphed here, de-
clared that the Polish army along the
River Bug, had retreated so precipi-
tately that 1t did not even destroy the
bridges behind it. This river was
Warsaw's line of defense.
Cracow, Poland, Aug. 6.-Thousands
OF wounded soldiers are taxing hos
pital facilities here, and doctors and
nurses, exhausted by long vigils, are
often dropping beside the operating
tables. The American Red Cross has
opened an improvised school for nurses
and 300 women are being given hasty
elementary course.
Warsaw, Aug. 6.-The suspense un-
der which Warsaw has labored for
three days was heightened by the
news that the negotiations at Barano-
vitchi between the Polish and soviet
Russian armistice commissions had
been without result.
The report that the Russian soviet
government insisted that peace con-
versations begin at once caused a
sensation In political circles.
Announcement was made that Gen.
Romer's party was authorized only to
confer with the bolsheviki on the
question of an armistice. This was in
line with the understanding that pre-
vailed when the Polish emissaries left
this city for the front.
The breaking Off of the negotiations
was due TO misunderstanding, ac-
cordlng TO the contention of the Rus
sian soviet authorities in a wireless
dispatch received here.
The latest communication from the
soviet suggests the negotiations both
for an armistice and for peace be held
in Minsk today.
II asks that the Poles send a dele
cation TO MIinsk invested with all the
necessary credentials to negotiate for
peace.
The Poles contend that It will be
physically impossible for them to COM
ply with this proposal.
Officlals Of the American consulate
have packed up their most important
records for prompt shipment from this
city In case the Russian bolsheviki
continue TO advance. The task Of vis-
ing the passports Of the hundreds
who desire to leave Warsaw win con-
tinue until the consulate is forced to
close.
Outgoing trains for Vienna, Posen
and Danzig are crowded, and seat res
ervations are selling at a large pre-
MUM. People are fighting to gain
entrance to the station platforms and
rush for places to sit or stand as soon
as the trains back in. A close guard
is maintained by troops, who inspect
all persons to see that no soldiers de-
part until they bear proper creden-
rials.
tracing their steps homeward from
Baranovitchi, where the conference
with the bolsheviki ended so abruptly
the bolshevik troops are reported
everywhere to be pressing their at.
tacks on the entire battle front from
the East Prussian line on the north to
the region adjacent to Lemberg In Ga.
licia on the south.
Inside the great battle are the
Poles are hurriedly preparing de
fenses, particularly trenches and
barbed-wire entanglements in front OF
Warsaw. .-4s
4. Many Americans and British sub
jects, including a number Of former
officers, are reported by the recruiting
officers to be enlisting in the Polist
volunteers.
London, Aug. 6.-The British gov
-ernment is irritated over what It be
lieves Is soviet Russia's equivocatior
over the British suggestion that tn,
Russians halt at the armistice line Of
demarcation in Poland and begir
peace negotiations.
Il has dispatched a sharp note I,
the soviet government demanding
yes or no answer as to whether tina
government intends to listen to tn,
suggestion.
The note. It is reported, contains n,
threats and Is not In the nature Of al
ultimatum. simply requesting a quicl
> answer as TO what soviet Russia In
tends TO do