CONDITIONS AT WARSAW.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 189, 11 August 1920, Page 5

CONDITIONS AT WARSAW.

TOWN THREATENED ON BOTH

FLANKS

(United Service.)

LONDON, Aug. 10. The staffs of the Legations, with their archives, have left Warsaw for Posen by special train. The Government's attitude is ambiguous. It is officially stated that it is; proceeding to Posen, but unofficially the mem-

hers of the Ministry say that nothing is settled, and that the Government is remaining at Warsaw for the present. Ther© is the greatest' reluctance to go. The departure would probably be -a, signal for the establishment of a rival Government.

A German correspondent at the Polish front states that tho Reds, advancing on Warsaw from the south-east^ have surrounded the defences., jeopardising either flank. They are now directing their main attack f«fli Raszymin. Tho outer forts and the defences of- the city are entirely inadequate. Many works were blown up by the Germans. The ester-n fortresses are entirely useless.

There is a strong line of field fortifications fifteen kilometres from the 'city, of German construction, and well suited for defence. '