The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-05
MAIN RAILROAD
Line IN DANGER
French Military Advisers Be-
lieve B0lsheviki Delay
Attack on Warsaw.
SOVIET CAVALRY IS NEAR
Allied Experts Give Up Hope
That Poles Will Be Able
to Make Stand.
(Ry AssocIated Preaal


Paris, Aug. 4.-French military ad-
visers at Warsaw have reported to the
government here that the prime OBJ
jectfve of the Bolshevik army operat-
ing against the Poles at present is to
cut off the Polish sea corridor, in
Guiding Danzig. rather than the cap
ture of Warsaw. The capital, they
say, would fall soon afterward.
Experts say the Bolsheviki are boast
ing they will offer the territory OF
Polish sea corridor to Germany as the
Bolsheviki do not recognize the treaty
Of Versailles.
Cutting off this corridor also would
mean severing the only railroad line
extending from Danzig to Warsaw
over which vast bulk of the muni-
tions for the Polish army is arriving
and also cutting other railroads from
Danzig into Poland. The Bolshevik
cavalry was less than thirty miles
from this railroad last Tuesday.
Warsaw will have to be evacuated
within two or three days. in the opin-
ion of the French and British military
experts there, and the government is
expected to be moved within that per-
iod, probably to Cracow.
The report of the members of the
military mission. telegraphed here last
night declared that the Polish army
along the river Bug had retreated SO
precipitatedly that 1t did not even de-
stroy the bridges behind it. This riv-
er was Warsaw's last line of defense.
A special Russian cavalry corps, the
military men reported was driving
southwest along the border of the AL
lenstein district and had yesterday
reached a point thirty miles from
Mlawa 81 miles northwest of Warsaw
on the only direct railroad to Danzig
from the Polish capital These caval-
rymen were said to be headed through
Mlawa into the Polish corridor to the
Baltic, nearby, and thence to Pomer-
ania.
The experts reported that the Polish
forces were demoralized on the whole
northern and central fronts, and were
falling back. The military men said
they had virtually. abandoned hope Of
the Poles making a stand now.
The Polish armistice delegates re-
turned to Warsaw Tuesday night, and
the Polish government has little hope
of the speedy arranging of an armis-
tice. The members of the allied mis-
sion are convinced that the soviet gov
ernment does not intend to negotiate
an armistice, they reported, and de-
clared their belief that the Russians
had set the next meeting of the ne
gotiators for today at Minsk, know
ing that it would be impossible Tor
the poles TO arrive at that time, max
tnu a pretext for further delay.
The Polish government, 1t is learned,
4 undecided as to whether it will send
emnssaries to Minsk
The experts said their gravest con-
Germ was the imminent cutting or OF
warsaw's direct communication with
Danzig, upon which Poland is depen-
dent for military supplies.
Lord d'Abernon, the British ampas-
sador to Germany. a member OF the
British mission to Poland, has returned
te Warsaw from Danzig
Copenhagen, Aug 4.-The Russian
SOVIET government has agreed to the
Iithunian demand for evacuation OF
wilma. according to private advices re-
ceived here. The agreement was made
on condition that Lithunians place
railway material necessary for evacu-
alton at the disposal of the commander
.F +na soviat f5lrth army.