POLISH RETIREMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 142, 15 June 1920, Page 5

POLISH RETIREMENT.

— . LEAVING UKRAINIA. ATTEMPT TO BREAK FRONT FAILS. fßy Cable.-rJ»rcss Association.—CopyrtghtJ (Receivca 11.,10 a.m.) LONDON, June J 4. A Warsaw communique states.—The enemy vainly tried to break our front in Polesia. A thousand Bolsheviks crossed the Dnieper and suffered heavily, only a hundred surviving, of whom many were drowned in attempting to return. The Polish withdrawal from the Ukraine continues according to plan. — (Reuter.) i RECAPTURE KIEFF. BOLSHEVIK CAVALRY RAH). (Tleceivecl 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 14. Polish sources confirm the Bolshevik recapture of Kieff. The coup was carried out by a Bolshevik cavalry corps, which nenetrated Jitomir, where it remained a few hours, burning the hospital and killing six hundred Polish wounded, besides doctors and ' nurses. Tho Poles maintain that the holding of Kieff constituted a danger to Polish troops. The military significance of the coup is far less than the political.— (Reuter.) DELEGATION TO ENGLAND. LONDON, June 13. A' Moscow wireless states that the Trade Union Congress decided to send a delegation to T3ngland»to study the political situation. General Wrangel has achieved his first objective in hie new advance from the Crimea, having captured Melitipol, 5,000 prisoners, 27 guns, and 5 armoured and N.Z. Cable.)