“REDS” RE-TAKE KIEFF
POLES BELITTLE THE VICTORY. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright (Reuter's Telegram.) LONDON, June 14. Reports from Polish sources confirm the report that the Bolsheviks have recaptured Kioff. The coup was carried out by a Bolshevik cavalry corps, which penetrated Jitomir and remained there for a few hours. They burned the hospital and killed six hundred Polish wounded, besides doctors and nurses. The Poles maintain that the holding of Kieff constituted a danger to the Polish troops, and that the military significance of the coup is far less than the political. IN THE UKRAINE. BOLSHEVIKS HAVE A BAD TIME. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WARSAW, June 14. A Polish communique states: The enemy vainly tried to break our front in Polesia. A thousand Bolsheviks crossed the Dnieper, hut suffered heavily. Only a hundred survived, and of these many were“ drowned m attempting to .return". Tho Polish withdrawal in the Ukraine continues according to plan.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10617, 16 June 1920, Page 6
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154“REDS” RE-TAKE KIEFF New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10617, 16 June 1920, Page 6
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