FIRST EDITION REDS ROUTED.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160739, 27 August 1920, Page 11

FIRST EDITION REDS ROUTED.

POLES INFLICT GREAT DEFEAT. LAST ATENUE OF RETREAT CLOSED. RUSSIAN ARMIES ENDANGERED. By Telegraph—Press Aisn.—Copyright. Reuter.—August 26, 2.30 p.m. .LONDON, August 34. Polish communiques report that after desperate fighting they inflicted an immense defeat on the Red Northern Army and have captured Przasnysz, Mlawa and Soldau, thus surrounding the bulk of the soviet Fourth Army pud the whole of the Third Cavalry Corps, and closing the last avenue of retreat for the Red extreme right wing. The enemy is fleeing in disorder. The booty is enormous, and the prisoners are very numerous. The communique- add: The Polish centre, unner Pilsudski. continued its northerly udvancc. Polish cavalry annihilated a heavy artillery group of twenty-two guns destined for the bombardment of Warsaw, and captured a Soviet order instructing commanders to destroy artillery batteries, and mounted infantry horses, which indicates the measure of tho Reds’ panic. The demoralisation in the Northern Red armies is spreading to the Southern front, where tho Reds who were advancing on Lemberg began to retreat. Polish pursuers have already reached the line of the river Bug. POLES HALL OF PRISONERS TRANSPORT WORKERS HOLD UP MUNITIONS. Received August 26, 2.20 p.m. LONDON, August 25. Official.—The Poles took prisoner 83.000 Russians, whilst 20,000 have surrendered to Germany, and another 10.000 are definitely cut off. The Rod armv was estimated at 183.030 during the 'attack on Wa-saw. Five fresh divisions that were being rushed from Siberia mutinied. Munitions for the Poles recently landed at Dantzig He on the wharves. The transport workers, who control the town, threaten hooldshcd and that trey will tear tip the railways if a single man or rifle is sent to assist the Poles.