THE POLISH DRIVE

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 49, 26 August 1920, Page 8

THE POLISH DRIVE

SMASHING THE REDS IN THE NORTH

DEMORALISATION SPREADING

ENORMOUS NUMBER OF PRISONERS.

(SMIED HIBBS ASSOCIATION.—COPMIMT.) (REUrER'S TELEGHAM.) . . ' (Receiyed August 26, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, 24th August. Polish communiques report that after desperate fighting the Poles inflicted an immense defeat oh the Red Northern Army, captured Przasnysz, Mla-wa. and Soldau, thus surrounding the bulk of Hip Soviet Fourth Army and the whole of the Third. The cavalry corps is closing the last avenue of retreat} The extreme right wing of the enemy is fleeing in disorder. The booty is enormous and the prisoners very numerous. I'ho: communique adds : The Polish! centre under Pilsudki continues its nor■thfjrly. advance. The Polish cavalry .annihilated a heavy artillery group of twenty-two guns, destined to bombardl Warsaw, and captured 'a. Soviet order, 'instructing; the. commanders to destroy artillery batteries, and! mount the. infantry on horses. This indicates, in' a "measure, the Red panic. The demoralisation in the northern Reid a-rrriies is spreading to the southern front. The Reds advancing on Lemberg have begun to retreat, and the Polish pursuers already have reached the line of the river Bug. '■' ' . .. • (PUIMCRtD IHIIUB HUES.) . I . (Received August 26, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, 25th August. , Official: The Poles have taken prisoner 83,000 Russians, whilst 20,000 have surrendered in Germany, and another 10,000 definitely cut off. The Red Army was estimated at 183,000 during the attack on Warsaw. ■■• Five fresh divisions which were being rushed from Siberia mutinied. Munitions for the Poles, which were ■recently landed at Danzig,' lie on the wharves. .The transport workers, who control the town, threaten bloodshed and to tear up the railways if a single man jor rifle is.'sent to .assist the Poles.