The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-16
POLES REPORT
SUCCESS IN
CITY DEFENSE
Radzymin Recaptured After
All Day Fight; Lon d on
Hears Reds Are Nearing
Capital After Hard Fighting.
RECAPTURE A TOWN
(By Associated Press)
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MOSCOW, Aug. 16-The Bolsheviks
have pushed their lines to point five
miles from Warsaw, whwere the battle
is continuing, it was officially an
nounced today.
The communique said there was
fighting on the Radzmin-Oklunieff line
which is five miles from Warsaw on
the eastern side of the capital
WARSAW, Aug. 16-Fighting at
various points on the front is reported
in today's official communique.
Radzymin, to the northeast of the
capital, is again in Polish hands after
an all-day fight.
The Russians are attacking on both
sides of Darzmin at Pegreci and at
Okuniew less than Is miles due east
of Warsaw.
An armored flotilla is patrolling the
Vistula river between Warsaw and
Thorn to prevent the Russian Bolshe-
viks from crossing that stream in the
movement to encircle this city.
Many Of these boats saw servisce
along the Pripet and Dnieper rivers,
some having been captured from the
Bolsheviks and moved to the Vistula
by railroad.
Soviet Cavalry Working.
Soviet cavalry Is working westward
along the Prussien frontier, and was
reported at various points northwest
of Warsaw today. These horsemen are
a:e a source of constant annoyance.
many detachments following the tao
tics adopted by General Budenny on
the southern Polish front in raiding
districts, endeavOring to drive in be-
hind the Polish lines and spreading
CONSERVATION among the peasants.
Estimates of the number of these
raiders vary, but it is reported there
are several thousand of them, some
of whom were infantrymen, who have
taken horses from peasants and NOV
ed forward.
1t is known the Bolsheviki had a
cavalry division upon their extreme
right, and it is this organization that
has been making headway and against
which armored motor boats and other
fighting craft are prepared to battle
in the event of the cavalry trying to
force the Vistula, sever the Warsaw
Danzig railway and possibly totally
isolate this city from the outside
world.
People Still Leave City.
Depots are still thronged and trains
the city of Warsaw is really quieter
than week ago, officials asserting
that most Of the panicky persons have
left.
The racing season having closed a
fortnight ago. 800 horses which were
entered for the various events have
been taken to Posen. That city is So
crowded that the government has re-
QUESTIONING rooms and buildings for
various government departments.
LONDON, Aug. 6-The Russians
are pressing their fight for Warsaw
within a dozen miles of the capital on
the northeast, it is indicated from
Sundays official statement from Mos
COW, received today. They report the
capture of Radzymin in this sector,
and the continuation of the battle
along this front, and also near Novo
Geirgievsk, to the northeast of War.
saw.
The capture of Soldau, about IL
miles northeast of Mlawa, near the
East Prussian frontier, also is an.
nounced. The statement reads: 1--WE
captured Soldau after fierce fighting
Fierce fighting is proceeding along
the line Of the river Vkra and the re-
gions Of Novo Georgievsk and IZgerZh
On Aug 13 we captured Radzymin
Fighting is continuing on the front OF
Radzymin, Okuniew and Dyubo sta
ton.
Sundays Polish official statement
conceded the capture by the Russians
OF Radzynin. but added that the town
vas recaptured by an attack by the
white Ruthenian division and that a
desperate struggle was continuing in
this sector.