RUSSIAN MIX-UP

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1920, Page 3

RUSSIAN MIX-UP

j A POLISH DEBACLE. j [LONDON TIMES SERVICE—OOI'VKIOHTj . 1 (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, July 31. Tho Polish situation js alarming. The Reds are irresistibly advancing on the r East Prussian frontier and,have captur- ' ed the fortress of Ossoivitz, i Lenza and are now occupying frontier towns of Oraewo, Szutzchin Augustowo. , Tlie fighting front no longer exists. : Everything is in a state of dissolution. Tho correspondent, found the last fighting front the scene of desolation. Polish frontier guards have Hr 1 and everywhere. there was silence and d'esolntion. The wlidle frontier is dominated by Reds i who immediately on the German frontier l keeping up regular artillery fire on PoI lisli rearguards. The Polish army j ijs fleeing palnjici stricken, discarding | everything. Tlie battle "that wll deI eide the fate of the Polish ’orthern l lArniy is pending in the vicinity of i Lowzo. I Inter-Allied troops in East Prussian : plebiscite area have been withdrawn to I Altensten'. Thb Italian battalion at T,yk has withdrawn, as it is not considered desirable to Europe Allied troops to a conflict with Reds or Poles. The German .frontiers is weakly guarded by police. A first detachment of Polish ■ tijoops crossed the German frontier j and were immediately interned. FugiI tives state the Russian officers declare ignorance of an armistice.