WARSAW DOOMED

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160724, 10 August 1920, Page 5

WARSAW DOOMED

CAN POLAND BE SATED? WHAT BED SUCCESS MEANS. A TRIUMPH FOR GERMANY, SINISTER BOLSHEVISTIC INTENTIONS, By Telegraph.—press Assn.—Copyright. Received Augnst 10, 10.30 a.m. Times. JDNDON, August 8. The Times takes a serious view of the situation, and points out that matters have drifted so far. It is militarily impossible to save Warsaw, and the reports of the advisers alone can show whether Poland can be saved. It is impossible to despatch troops via Danzig, and there remains the blockade, which moved most slowly. At the beginning of the war the French were convinced of the reality of the Russo-German understanding, and therein lies the next danger. The Times editorially urges Mr Lloyd George to place the whole facts frankly and quickly before the nation, expressing the immensity, significance, and vastness of the issues at stake. A Paris correspondent sums np French opinion by saying that the country is weary of fighting. France needs external peace, but is prepared to struggle even more in order to secure peace security. French opinion regards the establishment of the Soviet in Poland as a triumph for Germany. Additional reports from Poland confirm the sinister Bolshevistic ' intentions to occupy the capital and establish Soviets. The Government recently formed at Bialostok has issued Bolshevistic appeals far and wide. Red airmen are showering Warsaw and the surrounding country with official Bolshevist leaflets, couched in inflammatory language, declaring that Russia will fulfil her task and emancipate workers, and create a new and greater Poland. The appeal ends: “Hurry workmen, soldiers, and peasants, and join the world's revolution. Rid the world of capitalists, exploiters, and the middle class. Form councils of soldiers. Make your officers prisoners, and let us march ou Warsaw together.” A MILITARY CATASTROPHE POLtSH ARMY PANIC-STRICKEN. HORDES OF DESERTERS. Times.—August 10, 10,45 a.m. LONDON, August S. The Times’ Warsaw correspondent says that although Polish patriotism burns brightly, Bolshevist emissaries arc scattering jnonev with a lavish hand. The danger is real, urgent, and daily increasing. A German press correspondent states that the situation in Poland has developed into a military catastrophe, coupled with complete internal collapse. Allbridges leading to Warsaw have been blown up. The Reds axe shelling the outer forts. The army is panic-stricken, and hordes of deserters, including hundreds of officers, are streaming towards Moscow. The citizens are continuously fleeing from Warsaw City.

GERMAN- REDS BEADY TO ASSIST BOLSHEVISTS. Deceived August 10, 10.45 a.m. * BERLIN, August 9. The Social Democrats, Independents, and Spartacists have issued a joint proclamation calling on the workers to be in readiness to prevent the transport of Allied war material to Poland. BOLSHEVIKS PUSHING ON Deceived August 10, 10.45 a.m. LONDON, August 8. A Bolshevik communique states that thev have boon successful, and arc- advancing towards the river Narefin. Their troops have entered Sokoloff. Fighting is proceeding in the Scdlietz region with alternating success. It adds; We are driving back the Boles in the upper reaches of the Strypa. Fighting is proceeding in our favour on the Crimean sector. FAR FROM BEATEN FOCH’S VIEW OF POLAND. Reuter.—August 10, 1.50 p.m. LONDON, August 9. The Hythc Conference heard reports from 7vlarfhal Foeh. field Marshal Wilson, and Viscount Beatty, v,ho lengthily discussed measures to frustrate the Russians overrunning Poland. Foeh is apparently of opinion that Poland is far from, oeatou, and if her forces are quicklv rcorga she ma-y yet successfully defend her frontiers. GERMAN WAR STORES BEING BLOWY UP BY ALLIED TROOPS. Reuter .—August 10, 1.30 p.m. PARIS, August 9. Allied troops on tho eastern Russian frontier are busily engaged in destroying accumulations of German war material and munitions, evidently With the intention of preventing them falling into the hands of the Bolsheviks. The Germans arc complaining of the incessant explosions alarming the population.