RUSSIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue XXXXI, 15 June 1920, Page 7

RUSSIA

POLES LOSE KIEFF

BY CABLE—PEB6S ASSOCIiTTOX—COPYBIGHT

(Times.)

(Received June 15. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Junto 14.^ Polish sources confirm that the Bolsheviks captured Kieff. The coup was carried out by the Bolsheviks' cavalry corps, which penetrated to Jitomir, where they remained a few hours, burning hospitals and killing 600 Polish wounded, bes:des doctors and nurses. The- Poles mamtain that the holding of Kieff constituted a*- danger to Polish troops, and that tne military sigm^canc© of the coup is far less than political. , '