RUSSIA AND POLAND.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3542, 2 August 1920, Page 5

RUSSIA AND POLAND.

LUDENDORFF'S OFFER. WILL LEAD ARMY AGAINST REDS Received 9.0. LONDON, July 31. The Herald states that. Ludendorff has offered the British authorities to personally lead an army of 1,500,000 against ihe Russian Reds. REDS STILL ADVANCING. FRONTIER TOWNS OCCUPIED. POLISH REARGUARD DECIMATED. A PANIC-STRICKEN ARMY. Received 9.0. . BERLIN, July 31. The Polish situation is alarming. The Reds are irresistibly advancing on the East Prussian frontier, and captured the fortresses of Ossowitz, Suwalki, and Lenza, and are now occupying the frontier towns of Cragewo Szutzschin and Angustovo.

A fighting front no longer exists, and everything is in a state of desolation. A. correspondent found on the last fighting front, a scene of desolation. The Polish Frontier Guards had fled, and everywhere wa.« silence and desolation. The whole frontier is dominated by the Beds, who are immediately on the German frontier, .and are keeping up regular artillery fire on jtlie Polish rearguards. * The Polish army is fleeing panicstricken, and is discarding everything. A battle that will decide the fate of the Polish northern army is pending in the vicinity of Lonze. , ( Inter-AlHed troops which in the East Prussian plebiscite area, 'have beeij withdrawn ito Ailenstein. An Italian battalion at Lyk has been withdrawn as it is not considered desirable to expose tho allied troops to a conflict with the Reds or Poles. The German frontiers are weakly guarded by police.

The first detachment of Polish troops crossed the German, frontier and were immediately interned. Fugitives state /that the Russian officers declare Jtheir ignorance of an armistice.

FULL OF BREST LITOVK. ** Received 10,0 a.m. BERLIN, Aug. 1. It is reported that Brest Litovsk ■has fallen after a slight resistance, anfllhat the Reds are advancing ofl Lemberg. UNEASINESS FN AMERICA. Received 1.0.0. NEW YORK, Aug. 1. The Times diplomatic correspondent telegraphs from Washington that uneasiness over the continued advance of the Red armies in Poland has replaced the sense of relief brought to diplomats there by the earlier consent of the Soviet to the armistice. Washington never wholly shared the lighthearted optimism with which some of the Allies received the news of the Bolshevik assent to the armistice. There is a strong conviction, here that Lenin's aim at world revolution has not been in tiny way abandoned, and it is the prevailing opinion that "no permanent settlement in Eastern Europe will be obtainable while Bolshevism continues as an active militant force. Tt is not, expected that parleys with the Soviet will lead to real results.