THE POLISH WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1920, Page 6

THE POLISH WAR.

POLES SURROUND REDS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn Copyright. Warsaw, August 26. After bard fighting, the Poles captured the fortress of Ostronlenka and forced a passage over the Narev river. The Bolsheviks were surrounded near Mlawa, and, after a desperate struggle to break through, a portion succeeded in escaping eastward. The Bolsheviks in eastern Galicia arc retreating on the whole flank to avoid a threatening flank attack from the north. A French general (Lanozan) commands the southern Polish front. REPLY TO UNITED STATES. Ottawa, August 28. Poland's reply to the United States expression of hope that Poland will not advance beyond her ethnographic boundaries has been received, and it is understood thai, the reply does not contain anything that light be construed as disappointing to the United States.—Aus.N.Z. CablS Assn. Vancouver, August 27. Britain, France, Italy, and America have sent a message to Poland advising restraint regarding Russia. America urges that Poland should stop unnecessary bloodshed, adhere to the boundaries as fixed by the Treaty of Versailles, and accept reasonable . terms.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. " AN AMAZING SCENE. Berlin, August 2G. A German correspondent at Willenberg telegraphs that it is an amazing scene to watch the unending stream of Russians, on foot or on horseback, with guns, baggage waggons, goods and chattels, and sometimes even wives and children, pouring through Willenberg day and night. Fighting by the frontier is proceeding under the eye 3 of thousands of German spectators, occupying a position on the flank of the combatants.—Reuter. ALL GOING WELL. London, August 2ii. The port of Danzig has been re-opened for the transport of munitions to Poland. A wireless message from Moscow states that the Bolsheviks have launched a counter-attack towards Brest-Litovsk. In eomplionee with the ultimatum of August 24, the Bolsheviks have agreed to withdraw Hie demand for Polish workmen's militia. A Moscow wireless message states that Mr. Drombosky. chairman of the Polish delegation, at the third session of the peace negotiations, announc«d that the basis of thg, Soviet proposals was generally unacceptable. The Warsaw correspondent of the Daily r'iivnr.-rle says that General WeyT.ir.rl : ; having Warsaw and returning : f i Pirs. Tt h rnmnnred that this is a I -ro'eH .'i?ain«t the non-execution of his .-,Vr-. Tii.rtieularly in the north, where :nr-r Pnljsh armies are facing west, hemming in 0(100 Russians against the German frontier, instead of continuing the i attack upon the noting Russians —Ans.-N.Z. Csible A^n. Paris. August 26. Marshal Foi-h, questioned as to operations in Poland, said that everything was goinr; u-pH. The Bolsheviks " were breaking, up. and sensational developments mirrht be expected.