POLISH WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1920, Page 5

POLISH WAR.

REDS SURROUNDED. PANIC AND DEMORALISATION. fcr A&fl.—Cosn!|K Received August 26, 2.5 p.m. London, August 24. Polish communiques report that, after desperate fighting, they inflicted an immense defeat on the Reds' northern army, and captured Przasnysz, Mlawa, and Soldau, thus surrounding the bulk of the Soviet fourth amy and the whole of the third. Cavalry corps are closing the last avenue of retreat for the Red extreme right wing. The enemy is fleeing in disorder. The booty is enormous and prisoners are very numerous. The communiques add that th« Polish centre, under Pilsudski, continues its northerly advance, and that Polish cavalry annihilated a heavy artillery group of twenty-two guns destined for the bombardment of Warsaw, and captured a Soviet order instructing commanders to destroy artillery batteries and the mounted infantry horses, which indicates the measure of the Red panic. The demoralisation in the northern Red armies is spreading to the southern front, where the Reds who were advancing on Lemburg began to retreat. Polish pursuers have already reached the line of the river Bug.—Reuter Service.

REDS DECIMATED. • Received August 26, 2.30 p.m. London. August 25. Official: The Poles took prisoner 83,000 Russians, whilst 23,000 surrendered to Germany, and another 10,000 a#e definitely cut off. The Red army was estimated at 183,000. During the attack on Warsaw, five fresh divisions that ware being rushed (rom Siberia mutinied. The munitions for the Poles which were recently landed at Dantzig now lie on the whaarfea," as the transport workers, who control the town, threaten bloodshed and that they will tear up the railways if a single man or rifle is sent to assist the Poles. —Times Service.