POLISH WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1920, Page 5

POLISH WAR.

COLLAPSE OF THE REDS, CONFUSION OP THEIR RETREAT, Br Teletrapb.—Pkjs Aun.—Copyright, Received August 27, 7.50 p.m, London, August 25. Polish staff reports claim that the whole of the Red northern army has been accounted. for, the only Red military forces left being those in Volbynia and Galieia, and Budeny'6 cavalry. The Lokal Anzeiger's war correspondent says Red regiments are still crossing the German frontier with full war material, and ordnance of every kind is heaped up within the frontier in indescribable quantities.—United Service. RETREAT IN DISORDER. ' COMPLETE SUCCESS OP POLES. NEW ATTACK UNLIKELY. Received August 28, 12.15 a.m. London, August 26. While some Continental correspondents ate featuring the possibilities of the formation and equipping of a fresh Bolshevik army for a new offensive against Warsaw, it is clear neither the British nor the-French military experts entertain such an eventuality. It must be remembered that the Polish -captures exceed seventy thousand, and a further sixty thousand have been disarmed in German territory, while war material (including three hundred guns of these forces already captured) is falling into Polish hands daily. An official military review declares the Polish counter-offensive was completely successful. The Red armies are retreating in a disorderly condition from the Prussian frontier to the Upper Bug. The Polish north-west army has reached the line Mlawa-Pryasnysz-Ostrolenka-Lomza, completely cutting off the Bolshevik fourth army between Warsaw and Thorn. Three divisions of this, army surrendered, with divisional staffsf and also the fourth army's staff, while two divisions and a cavalry corps are now surrounded eastward of the Vistula, Further Polish troops have arrived at Strisbonay and Soldan, finally closing the last loophole of escape of the Red right wing. The main Polish blow, under General Pilsudski's personal direction, is operating northwards . between Ivangorod and Cholm. There was a complete surprise here, and the Poles advanced 75 miles on a front of 125 miles ,in four days, while since August 20 their advance has been even more rapid, making the total depth of the advance over 120 miles in eight-days. Southward, a Bolshevik attack upon Lemberg was frustrated, counter-attacks compelling the enemy to retreat. Northwards, the Soviet army in ethnographical Poland comprised twenty-one divisions, of which six have been entirely destroyed and eight lost—fiifty per cent. of their strength—and the remaining seven suffered heavily and are rapidly disintegrating.—Reuter Service. ANOTHER AMERICAN NOTE. Received August 27, 2.25 p.m. Washington, August 26. Mr. Bainbridge Colby (Secretary of State) announces that the State Department addressed another Note to Poland on August 21, in which the hope was expressed that the Polish Government would issue a declaration stating its intention to abstain from territorial aggression against Russia; also stating its intention to remain within the boundaries indicated by the Peace Conference. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.