VICTORIOUS POLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 287, 28 August 1920, Page 7

VICTORIOUS POLES

SUCCESS OF COUNTER-

• OFFENSIVE

RED ARMIES IN DISORDERLY

RETREAT

BOLSHEVIKS' HEAVY LOSSES

(By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyrii'at

(Rec. August 28, 0.15 a.m.)

London, August 20.

While some Continental correspondents .are featuring the -possibilities of the formation and equipping of a fresh Bolshevik Army for a new offensive against Warsaw, it is clear that neither thto British nor French military experts entertain such an eventuality. It must be. remembered that the Polish captures exceed" 70,000, and that a further 60,000 have been, disarmed in German territory, while war material (including 300 guns pf these forces already captured) is falling into Polish hands daily.

An • official military review declares that the. Polish counter-offensivo was completely successful. The Red armies (ire retreating in a disorderly condition from the' Prussian frontier to the Upper .Bug, The Polish North-West Army has reached the -line Jtlawa-Przfisnvsz-Ostro-lehka-Lomza, completely cutting off the Bolshevist Fourth Army between Warsaw and •Thorn. Three divisions of this army surrendered with: their divisional staffs, also the Fourth Army's staff, while two divisions and a cavalry corps are now surrounded eastward' of' the Vistula. ,

Further Polish troops have arrived at Strisjxmrf? and Soldau, finally closing the last loophole of escape of the lied win£' The main Polish blow, under General Pilsudski's persona] direction, operating northward.between. Ivangorod and Clolm, was a complete surprise. Here the Polc3 advanced 75 miles on a front of 125 miles in four da.TS, while sincc AugustSO their advance, has been even more rapid, niacin? the total dentil of the advance over .120 miles in eigltt days. To the southward, the Bolshevik attack upon Leniberi; was frustrated, counter-attacks compellintr the enemy to retreat northwards. The Soviet* Army in ethnographical Poland comprised 21 divisions, of which six have been entirely 'destroyed, eight havelost 50 per cent, of their strenetli. and t.he remaining seven have suffered heavily and are" rapidly disintegrating', lieuter.

CLAIMS IN POLISH STAFF REPORTS

(Eec. August. 27. 7.50 p.nv.)

London, Awrust 25. -,| ■polish staff reports claim that tfie whole Ttccl northern army has been accounted for, the only Heel inihtaTy forces left be'ins tho=o in. Volhynia and fialicia and Bwlcny's cavalry—United Service,

Paris, August 2fi._ K semi-official message from Berlin states flint' <h«- Polish; armies aro facin? a sprious ammunition shortage.. The Bolshevik? am preparing ft new line on the Niemen Piter. The Poles lvaw entered Grodno. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

AN AMAZING. SCENE

(Rec. August 28, 1.40 a.m.) ' Beriin, August 2G.. A German correspondent at Willenberg telegraphs: "It is an amnising scene to watch the unending stream .of Russians, infnofc or on hoisebiiik, with guns, baggage. wagons, goods. • and chattels, sometimes even wives and children, pouring through Willenberg .day and Jiiirht. Fighting by the frontier is proceeding under the eyes of thousands of . German spectators. occupying a position on tlie flanks of the ' combatants.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. >