The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1920-08-06
POLAND SITUATION
REMAINS CRITICAL


desperate situation on the front near
est Warsaw, the Kosciuszko squad
ron, the air force composed for the
most part of Americans attached to
the Polish army, is beinv transferred
from the southern front. The SQUAD
ron will aid in the defense of the
Polish capital.
The American Consulate in War
saw will be closed Friday and Consul
Rankin is making preparations to de-
part Friday night. Most of the rec
ords already have been shipped away.
The American legation here also is
prepared to close within a few days.
The legation employees have shipped
their baggage to Camp Grape, the
emergency headquarters of the
American typhus expedition.
The defensive line east of Warsaw
has been pierced in several places, ac-
cording to reports from the front.
Preparation have been begun for
transferring the government, if that
move is necessitated by the Russian
adfance. The officials, however, still
hope the Soviet forces will be check
ed somewhere east of tn Vistula.
No announcement has been made
as to what place the governmnt
would move to, but it is reported it
would be Posen or Czestochowa, 143
miles southwest of Warsaw near the
Silesiona frontier.
Of the developments along the
eastern defense line, the word from
the front shows that after a halt of
several days while reinforcements
Were hrnnht IN and supplies for-
warded along the river, the Boisheviki
forced crossings of the Bug at num-
ber of places. At one point southeast
of Ostrov, the Soviet troops are re-
ported to have crossed the river in
large numbers.
Tonights communique from head
quarters announced that the Russians
had force the Bug in the region of
Drohiezyn (about 70 miles east of the
capitaD, this being part of the So
Wet movement to outflank the defend
ers of Warsaw and push on toward
the Vistula. The Poles counterat-
tackled and fierce fighting is continu-
ing.
Between Drohiezyn and Brest-Lit-
ovsk, the communique continues the
Poles launched a counter-attack
against the Russians wro had crossed
the Bug below Brest-Litovsk. In the
region of Brest-Litovsk, which is IN
the hands of the Russians, they re-
coiled for an attack which compelled
the Poles to evacuate Terespol, just
to the west of the river.
There was fighting at various
points to the south, but without gains
for the Russions.
The Soviet troops have been check
ed in their westward push along the
Prussian bordsr, the statement an
nounces. They have reached Mysze-
nice in an advance apparently diegned
to bring them to the Warsaw-Daniz
railway. Military observes assert
that this is part of the Russias out
hankipg movement, planned to encir-
Gle the capital, thus saving the heavy
losses which would result if Warsaw
were attacked directly.
Russian gains are conceded north
and east of Warsaw, where the Soviet
forces are regrouping for what may
be the final exertion in their attempt
to bring Poland to their terms of
peace by directly thrateneing his
capital.
In the center of the front bearing
down upon Warsaw from the north
east the Russians, according to the
communique are being held along the
Ostrov Czerwony line to the Bug.
London, August 6.-While the ac-
tual military situation in Poland is
not much clearer than it was yester-
day, it is admitted to be critical Re-
ports, however, are in some respects
contradictory that the precise degree
of menace to Warsaw as a result of
the recent Bolsheviki advance cannot
be estimated.
Reports yesterday stated the So
Wet armies had reached points thirty
miles distant from the Polish capital,
but later advices indicate they are
twice that distance away and that the
Soviet calvary is far ahead of the
infantry. A Warsaw dispatch to the
Daily Mail states the Polish counter
offensive on the southern front has
been successful at the Bolsheviki have
been hurled back AS miles. Most
newspapers express great anxiety
over the situation this morning and
the statement by high official yes
terday that the present position is as
grave as that in August, 1914, is
given great prominence. Reports that
the British government has already
ordered the fleet to resume the block
ade of Russia, which was partially
raised last November receive great
emphasis in some journels, but no of
fetal sanction is claimed for the
possible early this morning tended to
discount the rumor. 1t is asserted
that, notwithstanding the fact that
the cabinet has not yet considered
the reply of the Soviet government
relative to an armistic with Poland,
it has been determined to send the
Kameneff Krassin trade delegation
back to Russia.
The text of the Soviet reply is
known to have reached London, but
as yet it has not been made public by