BOLSHEVIK ADVANCE

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160710, 24 July 1920, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK ADVANCE

GRATE DANGER TO GERMANY POLES REQUEST ARMISTICE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received July 24, 10 a.m. PARIS, July 23. Advioes from Warsaw state that the Polish Council of National Defence is sending a request to Moscow for an immediate armistice on the lines Mr Lloyd George suggested. Herr Mayer, the German Charge d’Affaires, has called M. Millerand’a direct attention to the danger to Germany by the Bolshevik advance into Poland. M. Millerand, in reply, said ho would only deal with the situation after tha receipt of the Allied Missions’ report. Le Matin states that the immensity of the mistake during peace negotiations of imagining that peace in Europe could be settled without taking Russia into account is now visible. RUSSIANS PRESSING THE ADVANCE POLES DISPIRITED AND SHORT OF AMMUNITION. Received July 24, 10 a.m. LONDON, July 23. Tire Daily Telegraph’s Warsaw correspondent says that the Russians ara pressing along the main roads leading ti Poland. The Polish divisions, sqm-3 of which have ceased to count, are short ■of ammunition, arc exhausted and dispirited by a 150 miles retreat in torrid weather. The situation indicates that Warsaw will bo sacked within ten days unless adequate pressure compels tho Soviet to suspend their advance. News from the Southern front shows that Budieny’s cavalry broke the Polish line aud pressed towards Lemberg, but was cut off Ty Poles. Budieny has already lost one brigade.