BROKEN RED ARMIES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 288, 30 August 1920, Page 5

BROKEN RED ARMIES

RETREATING IN NORTH AND SOUTH

AMMUNITION AND EQUIPMENT ABANDONED THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS CAPTURED By Telegraph-Press Asfociation-Conyrizht Warsaw. August 2fi, After hard fighting the Poles captured the fortress of Ostrolenko and forced the passago of the Narev River. The Bolshovilcs surrounded near .Wlava mado a desperate struggle to break through, anil n. portion succeeded in escaping to the eastward. The Bolsheviks in Eastern Galicia aro retreating on the wliolo front to avoid a threatoniiu: flank attack from tho north.

(Rec. August. 29, 5.5 p.m.) Warsaw, August 28. The Bolshevik Northern Army is hastily retreating, abandoning ammunition dumps and equipment. The Southern Red Army is in full flight. Sovcral thousands linve been taken prisoner and two-thirds of the Bolshevik guns cap-tured.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LITHUANIANS ENTER. VILNA. Copenhagen, August 2G. Lithuanian advanced guards entered Yilna, which the Bolsheviks had almost entirely evacuated after plundering the city. It is reported that Polish advance troops have entered Clrodno.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

BOLSHEVIKS COUNTER-ATTACK

LAUNCHED TOWARDS BREST LITOVSK.

London, August 2". Military experts expect a Bolshevik counter-attack near Brest Litovsk, where the Russian resistance is increasing. There is a noticeable recrudescence of the spirit of exclusiveness amongst Polish officers which marred the earlier «• operation with the French.

, A wireless message from Moscow states that the Bolsheviks have launched a counter-attack towards Brest Litovsk.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

{Bee. August 29, 3.5 p.m.)

London, August 28. A Bolshevik communique states: Our troops are fighting fiercolv for the possesion of the forts of Brest Litovsk.-Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.

"EVERYTHING GOING VERY WELL"

STATEMENT BY MARSHAL FOCH. ,r TIT,, Paris ' August 26. Marshal Fooh, questioned as to the operations in Poland, said everything was going very well. The Bolsheviks wero breaking up, and sensational developments might bo expected.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WEYGAND RETURNING TO PARIS PROTEST AGAINST NONEXEC'CJTION OF PLANS. nn. L ?" (l011 . August 27. The Daily Chronicle's" Warsaw correspondent 6tates that General WeV»and is leavinj. Warsaw and returning to Paris. i Jt is rumoured that hig departure is a protest against the nonexecutioii of his plans, particularly in the north, where four Polish armies facmg_ west are hemming in GOOO Russians against_tho German frontier, instead of continuing the attack upon the retreating Russians.

General Lanrezan, of the J'roneh Army, commands tho southern Polish front.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

UNWISE TO ADVANCE TOO FAR.

(Rec. August 29, 5.5 p.m.)

m, PariS ' AllgUSt '27. wT™ P etlt Parisien"' says General Weygand emphasised the unwisdom of the Poles advancing too far, but in view ot Wrangel s success he hopes tho Bolsheviks will lie unable to rosunie the attack on the Poles—Aus.-N.Z. Cubic Assu

DANZIG REOPENED FOR TRANSPORT OP MUNITIONS mi . . „ London, August 27. Ihe port of Danzig, closed by tho British High Commissioner recently, has been reopened for the transport ci munitions to Poland.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ALLIES' ADVICE TO POLAND London, August 26. Britain, Franco, Italy, and the United btates have sent a message to Poland ?m l ng restrainf: wit 'i regard to Russia, llie American message urges that Poland should stop unnecessary bloodshed, adhere to tho boundaries as lixed by the .treaty of Versailles, and accept reasonable peaco terms.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asm. POLISH REPLY TO AMERICA. Washington, 'August 26. Poland s reply to the American Note expressing tho hope that Poland will not advance b&yond the Polish ethnographic boundaries has been received, and it is understood that it does not contain anything that might bo construed as disappointing to tho United Statw.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable A6sn. ISSUE NOT SETTLED BY POLISH NOTE. (Rec, August 20, 11.5 p.m.) Now York, August 27. It is understood tlwt the Department of Stato will continue to correspond with Poland concerning the Russo-Polish situation. Tho recent Polish Note is not considered to have settled tho issue.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS SOVIET PROPOSALS DECLARED UNACCEPTABLE. London, Angus 20. A Moscow wireless message states that M. Dombslcy. chairman of tho Polish delegation, at the third session of the peaco negotiations, announced that the basis of tho Soviet proposals was generally unacceptable—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SOVIET RESOLVED NOT TO CONCLUDE PEACE TO CONTINUE WAR UNTIL POLES SURRENDER.

(Roc, August 29, 5.5 p.m.) Copenhagen, August 2G. Tho "National Tidende's" Vienna correspondent learns authentically that the Soviet has resolved not to conclude peace, but to eudeavour by all means to continue tho war until Poland surrenders. A general mobilisation order will shortly bo issued.—Aus.-N.Z. Ca'blo Assn.

WRANGEL'S CAMPAIGN

(Rec. August 30, 0.30 a.m.) Constantinople, August 27. Wrangel reports that lie lias captured Novorosisk and EkaUrinodai'.—Renter. REPORT ON LABOUR DELEGATION'S VISIT PREVALENCE OF CIMME AND DISORDER DENIED. (Rec. August, 2!), 5.5 p.m.) London, August 28. In an exhaustive report on I he recent visit to Russia, tlm British Labour delegat'ion emphatically contradicts istatcmeiits as to tho prevalence of erimc, disorder, dentil from starvation, olc. The report declares that although social equalisation is far from complete, glaring inequalities of fortune no longer exist. It praises the systematic efforts to improve the economic and social conditions of tho people, but questions whether too heavy a prico is not being paid for the advantages, pointing out that personal freedom and freedom of speech and Press are totally abolished. The I

delegation believes that attacks against Juissia in tho AVest will result in tho spread of Bolshevism in Persia, and tho Last.—Router.

REVOLT AGAINST BOLSHEVIKS

SPREADING IN NORTHERN CAUCASUS. fficc. August. 29, 5.5 p.m.)

Delhi, August 27. Advices from tho Northern Caucasus show that tlio revolt is spreading against Uie lWlsheviks. The Cossacks and tribesmen arc fraternising and are jubilant over Wraiigol's successes. Cholera is rife in Baku, where thero are no medical supplies. The executions there ?'? nid'c-asiiig, the local Soviet shooting hity persons daily. Tho foreign Ctnsul reports that Baku lias become «n absolute hell. Many people are fleeing o J ersia. The Bo.sheriks are disarm'"K t.ie tartar Armenians, tlio penalty tor possession of arms being death without trial.—Reuler. A BROKCNJKRTAKING Rl iv?-mT N LEGATES CONSULT w I I'll COUNCIL OF ACTION, m, r, London, August 27. ■tho Council of Action, after consultation with Ivunieneff and Krassin, announces that the Russian Government's withdrawal regarding the Polish civio militia removes all the difficulties in the way of n Russo-Polish peace. The counCU urges the British, Government to publish the full terms on which it will mnko peace with Russia. Tho "Daily Chronicle" protests against the intrigue between the Council of Action and the Russian delegate;!, as the Russians gave an undertaking to confine themselves to dealings with the British Government.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. russianlold seized IN LUGGAGE OF SOCIALIST EDITOR. (Rec. August 29, 5.5 p.m.) Christians, August 26. Tho police at Vardoe seized seventy thousand roubles in gold found in the luggage of Madsen, editor of a Socialist newspaper at Trondlieim. Mndsen

was returning from the Moscow Internationale, where ho represented the Norwegian Labour Party—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.