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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY. AUGUST 13, 1920 :5t 5 til ; t . t : ?i I ST s Successive Blows at Differ ent Points Delivered. SLAVS ALSO REINFORCED Defenders of Warsaw Desperate Stand Hastily Thrown Vp Are Making i Works ever and would soon spread to other countries." "In a year," he continued, "all Eu rope will be bolshevik." Warsaw newspapers publish inter views with soldiers, who declare the bolsheviki advancing upon this city claim they have come to exterminate the bourgeoisie and distribute the land among peasants. In the Bialy stok district the bolsheviki took a number of hostages, threatening to shoot them if food supplies are -not delivered to the soviet army. It Is said the country behind the bolshe viki lines is suffering from famine, as all grain has been requisitioned and sent eastward. Bolshevik prisoners say that the high command of the soviet armies fears a reverse before Warsaw and Is hastily preparing positions to which it can withdraw In case of defeat. FAItlS, Aug. 12. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The situation at War saw continues critical. The Rus sian plan of campaign of delivering successive blows at different points tends to disorganize the Polish de fense, compeling the Polish staff to rush reserves to widely separated points. ' The red northern forces have been heavily reinforced and pushed to within 30 miles of the capital. The Poles are making a desperate stand on defenses hastily thrown up around Pultusk. and although badly equipped, half-trained and not too well supplied with ammunition, they are holding their own. according to the latest news. But the issue still Is in the balance. There Is little change on the re mainder of the front, except in the south, where activity of the bolshe vik general, Budenny, is creating a new danger. Aid From South Impossible. The operations of General Wrangel, anti-bolshevik commander in south Russia, can do nothing to relieve the pressure on the Poles, according to French military opinion. Wrangel is marching out of the Crimea to find in the continent means for feeding the refugees who followed - his re , treat last year. LONDON, Aug. 12. (By the Asso ! elated Press.) Russian cavalry has i reached Praga, a suburb of Warsaw, according to a wireless from Berlin today. The Perlln wireless measage re porting Russian cavalry in Warsaw's suburbs should. It would seem, be : accepted with reserve in view of the latest direct advices from Warsaw. ', which announced the launching of a : Polish counter-offensive more than , SO miles north of the capital. PARIS, Aug. 12. (By the Asso ciated Press.) A great battle is in progress on. the Russo-Polish front upon which hangs the fate of War saw, according to information reach ing the French foreign office today. WARSAW. Aug. 11. 11 P. M. (By ' the Associated Press.) The Poles have launched a counter-offensive ' with bayonets in the region of Pul- tusk, where the Russians have been striving to break the Polish defensive lines. Pultusk. is 31 miles north of Warsaw. - LONDON, Aug. 12. Progress for the Russians against the Poles on the southern front was announced in Wednesday's official statement from Moscow. Wlodawa, on the Bug, south of Breast-Litovsk, has been taken by the soviet troops, while further southeast they have cap tured Vladimir-Volynsky, east of the . Bug. Further advances on the front " nearer Warsaw also are announced. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 10. (By the Associated Press.) Bolshevik forces In southern Russia are strik ing at the extreme flanks of Gen eral Baron Wrangel's army north of the Crimean peninsula, according to dispatches received here. Three soviet divisions, totalling 8000, crossed the Dneiper river Au- guat 7 at Aleshkiand advanced sev - eral vereis southward. Two bolshe viki cavalry columns, supported by in - fantry, are advancing southward from Alexandrovsk. POLES READY FOR DEFEASE Men, Women and Bovs ol Warsaw Prepare for Battle. WARSAW, Aug. 12. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Hundreds of convey ances of all descriptions loaded with barbed wire and driven by boys and old men, are streaming through the Polish capital toward the battlefront. Mingled with them are endless trains of supply wagons guarded by elderly civilians armed with rifles. . Able bodied men are being relieved from other duties so that they may be made available in the fight for the defense of Wariaw. ' Women soldiers are acting as cour iers and French military mission of ficers are showing extreme activity. As the fighting front draws nearer, Warsaw squads of citizens are drill ing in many parts of the city. As the determined-looking groups passed through the streets many boys in knickerbockers, elderly men and well- to-do merchants are to be seen side by side with the more usual type of lghter. Newspaper accounts declare that the spirit of the people is to defend Warsaw, repel the invader and not to count the cost in blood. The government, while It -will not concede that a date has been set for evacuation, is gradually moving away the important state documents. CITY'S FAXJT EXPECTED SOON LLOYD GEORGE ASKS EIWOY TO ACT Premier Would Hasten Russ - Pole Armistice. WARSAW MESSAGE CITED Readiness of Polish Mission to Con fer With Soviet Delegates Is Declared Evident. Soviet Cavalry Reported Within Rifle Shot of Warsaw. JOHANNESBURG. East Prussia. Aug. 11. (By the Associated Press.) Reports that Mlawa, an important city on the Warsaw-Danzig railway. was taken by the Russian bolsheviki Tuesday and that the soviet cavalry was within rifle shot of Warsaw, the fall of which was expected Thurs day or Friday, were brought here to day by a correspondent of the Koen igsberg Allegemeine Zeltung. Iso official dispatches have Indi cated the soviet armies have taken Mlawa, and most recent advices have shown the bolsheviki to be some 30 miles 'from Warsaw. Americans, British and French who are fighting with the Poles against the bolsheviki are considered fair game to kill" by the common soldiers of the soviet army, it is declared by the correspondent, who says the bol sheviki have been told these fighters are "bourgeoisie and should be ex terminated." The- correspondent, who spent some time along the bolshevik front, said he had been given most courteous consideration. Bolshevik cavalry, he said, is excel lently disoiplined and equipped with machine guns which are operated from the saddle. The men, however, presented a ragged appearance. : Russian forces have occupied - Sol dau, a town In East Prussia by con sent of the German Inhabitants, ac cording to rumors here. . BERGDOLL TRIAL ENDED deavored to get in touch with Mos cow. - WARSAW, Aug. 12. (1:30 P. M.) The Polish peace miBsin is said to be on its way back to Warsaw. Reports Indicate that the delegation is pass ing through towns and villages occu pied by bolshevik forces. Local Jew ish parish populations are said to be setting up soviet and communist gov- ernments.- PARIS. Aug. 12. The Polish armi stice and peace delegates, M. Okeucki, director of the political department of the ministry of foreign affairs, and Major Stamirowskl left Warsaw Wednesday evening to meet the Rus sian delegates, according to & dis patch to the Temps from Warsaw to day. LONDON, Aug. 12. It was unoffi cially reported today that Premier Lloyd George and Earl Curzon, secre tary for foreign affairs, plan to meet Premier Millerand at Boulogne Sun day to discuss the situation arising from the recognition of General Wrangel. BRITISH PAPERS DISPLEASED Tin "Vrini- Chnnnmn o TV. ; Ctm. Before 1 P. M. Wednesday, as ipiinininiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiii i LONDON. Aug. 12. Premier Lloyd George last night notified Leo Kamen" eff, soviet emissary here, that the Polish government had Just informed the British premier that up to 9 P. M. Tuesday Poland had not received reply from the Moscow government to the message of Poland expressing a willingness to send delegates to the armistice and peace conference at j Minsk. Poland Informed the prime minister that the Polish officer commanding the sector beyond Siedlce had an nounced chat the- Russian peace dele gation had arrived in that sector and. not finding the Polish delegates, had stated that it would wait until 10 A. M. Wednesday. Kamrnfff Gets Facts. The premier further informed M. Kameneff that Poland replied that the Polish delegation was proceeding to the front immediately to meet the Russians and that if the Russian delegates were still there the Poles would send their peace delegation Im mediately. Poland further stated she was notifying the soviet authorities that she was prepared to start her armistice and peace delegation for the scene Wednesday night. Mr. Lloyd George told M. Kamen eff he trusted he would expedite the passage of the Polish delegates to Minsk. The premier called attention to the refusals of the Russian wire less service to accept messages for the soviet government from Warsaw, as reported by the Poles, and said this raised a justifiable suspicion and that it was not conducive to a prompt and peaceful solution of the crisis. ' Polish Delegates Slow. The British premier, In opening his letter, acknowledged Kameneffs let ter of August 11, covering the com munication from Moscow, whch stat ed that representatives of the Rus sian command had waited for the Polish armistice delegates since the evening of August 9, but that they had not yet arrived. The premier informed M. Kameneff that he had just received a message from Warsaw, dated Tuesday, at 9 o'clock, stating that Poland was without an answer from the soviet agreeing to the Polish wireless pro posal of August 5, which proposal had been finally accepted by the soviet service after three vain attempts to transmit it. In this message Poland expressed her readiness to send dele gates. Poles Report Corroborated. The only Information reaching Warsaw that the Polish delegates ex pected to arrive in Minsk Wednesday. the premier said the Warsaw dis patch advised him, was a .Havas Agency message from Hythe. Mr. Lloyd George said he wished to state that "the British representatives in Warsaw also regarded that the polish government had repeatedly em VERDICT REACHED AFTER 5 MIXTJTES' DELIBERATION. London Post Alone Approves Recog nition ol Wrangel. LONDON, Aug. 12. The Morning Post the only newspaper commenting which does not disapprove of France's recognition of General Wrangel, de clares the step was worthy of the French nation and regrets that Great Britain did not act similarly. The Times characterizes the French action as dangerously mischievous, while the Daily News indirectly sug gests that if it is true. Great Britain must discontinue her co-operation with the French. The Daily Telegraph, referring to a report that the recognition was given three weeks ago, expresses surprise that a question of such moment was not discussed at the Hythe confer ence. The Daily Teiegraph remarks on the rather belated appearance of Secretary Colby's note to Italy and says it might have had a better chance of being accepted by Great Britain if it had come earlier. The newspaper says it shares the feelings of America toward dealing with the bolsheviki. But, it adds, the United States Is on the far side of the Atlantic and while she can per haps afford to ostracize Russia while Lenlne and Trotsky control her des tinies, Europe is kept quivering on the rack. French Press on Defensive. PARIS, Aug. 12. Havas.) Recog nition by France of the South Rus sian government of General Wrangel Is commented on today by all French newspapers, most of which express surprise at statements which Premier Lloyd George made In the house of commons. They hold that the British premier Is not in a position to reproach France in connection with this initia tive by her, advance notice of which was given by Premier Millerand in his speech of July 20, as they point out that Mr. Lloyd George began ne gotiations with the bolsheviki with out consulting France. ' The papers consider French recog nition of General Wrangel Is a strictly logical continuation of the line or policy publicly mapped out by France. Red Envoys Reach Berlin. PARIS. Aug. 12. Bolshevik pleni potentiaries -iave arrived at Berlin to resume diplomatic relations be tween Russia and Germany, it is re ported in a dispatch today. The message adds that another mission has reached "Vienna with a view to renewing relations with Austria. The commercial trees of Alaska are western hemlock, Sitka spruce, Alas ka cedar and western red cedar. Cot tonwood, birch, lodgepole pine and white fir are "also ; found in small quantities. " ' ' Conrt-Martial Finding Remains Se cret Cntil Passed On hy Major General Bullard. POLES BADLY OUTNUMBERED Force Defending Warsaw Small Compared With Reds. WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. Polish forces defending Warsaw are out' numbered about two and a half to one. Details as to the bolshevik mill tary organization received today in official circles. place the ration strength of the Poles has been esti mated at 140.000. It Is estimated that in rifle and saber strength alone the soviet forces composing the army north of the 1'ripet river consist of 114.000 men. Bolshevist rifles and saber strength sauth of the river is placed at 48,000 men. Twenty-six soviet Infantry divis- i ions, the official details assert, have been identified as facing the Polish army, with 13 in reserve. In addi tion 10 cavalry divisions have been noted in active operation with two in reserve. The bolsheviki are estimated to have, scattered in other parts of Rus sia, 25 other divisions as well as two cavalry divisions. General Sergius Kameneff. and not General Brusiloff, commands the en tire soviet forces on the Polish front. In a recent intercepted wireless dis patch by the soviet government the report that General Brusiloff was in command of the soviet army was characterized as "the mistaken, in tentionally perverted Idea spread by European an- American bourgeois atercies." General Kameneff formerly com manded the troops fighting Kolchak on the eastern front, and according to the soviet wireless It was as a result of his victories In that area that he w pruiiioieu to nis present com mand. The bolshevist force on the Polish front is reported to be divided into two armies with the northern in command of General Toucacheski. who is only 27 years of age, and the soutnern command by General Yecor otl. Both were officers in the czar's army. General Brusiloff is known to be chief or a military council at Mos cow, which has been preparing mili tary pians against foland. NEW YORK, Aug. 12. Courtmar tial of Erwin Rudolph Bergdoll. wealthy Philadelphian, cnarged with desertion from the army in evading the draft law, ended on Governor's Island today when a verdict was reached after less than five minutes' deliberation by the court. The verdict came, shortly after news of the arrest near Oneonta, N. Y.t of a man said to answer the description of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Erwin's brother. The finding of the court will remain secret until passed on by Maj or General Bullard. In accordance with courtmartial procedure, Bergdoll was recalled to the courtroom prior to announcement that a verdict in his case had been reached. In cases of conviction this is done to record his previous history, to aid the court in determining the severity of the punishment. If Bergdoll Is not released within. 24 hours army men will take it for granted that he has been found guilty. The prisoner was returned to prison. ONEONTA. N. Y. Aug. 12. A young man, who state troopers say an swers the description of Grover Cleve land Bergdoll. the wealthy draft eved er, was arrested by two troopers 10 miles west of here today. The sus pect denied he was Bergdoll and gave his name as George Lanno of Buffalo. News of the arrest was communi cated to the military authorities at Governor's Island with the request that an officer be sent to identify the man If possible. The man gave his age as 30 years. 1ROTZRT VISIONS RED WORLD Ail Europe Will Be Bolsheviki, Says War Minister. WARSAW, Aug. 11. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Leon Trotxky, Russian bolshevik minister of war, has ar rived at Bialystok. just behind the soviet front, and has set . up head quarters tnere, according to news reaching here. Speaking in Vilna, capital of Lithuania, recently, he an nounced that soviet Russia has been officially recognised by the western powers and that M. Krassin and M. Kameneff, heads of the bolshevik commercial mission to Great Britain, had been received at London with tfie ceremonials usually accorded foreign ambassadors. He asserted that bol shevism was "more powerful than QUEBEC GETS CONVENTION Typographical Convention to Meet in Canadian City in 1921. ALBANY, V. T.. Aug. 12. The In ternational Typographical Union to day chose Quebec for the 1921 con vention. The monthly per captia tax for the maintenance of the Union Printers' Home in Colorado Springs, Colo., will be increased from 20 to 30 cents under an amendment to the law approved today. The report of the secretary-treasurer showed the membership to be 74.719. Total earnings for the year' ended May 31 last were $32,130,091. an in crease of 40 per cent over the pre vious year. The organixation's total assets on July 31 last were 31.966,903- Portlanders Held as Speeders. SALEM. Or., Aug. 12 (Special. )- R. M. Eckerson, 641 East Salmon street, Portland, and H. J. Neilson, a resident of East Forty-seventh street, Portland, are under arrest charged with driving in excess of the legal rate of speed on the Pacific highway and will be tried before the justice of the peace at Woodburn. The arrests were made by Deputy Sheriff Smith near Woodburn. S. & II. green Holman Fuel Co. Adv. stamps for cash. Slain Sal. 6S0-2L All-Leather Footwear At Midsummer Reductions Here is assured quality at a modest price ! Take advan tage of worth-while reductions on some of America's best footwear. 0 Women's Footwear Patent Colt Cofonial Pumps, leather French fl a r heels, welt soles, all sizes and widths Russia Calf Pumps in black or brown; am- J(Tfc Q C pie range of sizes and widths 0 Fine Kid Oxfords in black or brown, Cuban (tCk Q C heels, welt soles Footwear for Men Black Calf Oxfords ; the remainder of our stock in sizes up to 7 only; formerly priced $10 and up ward ; now Boyden's Russia Calf Bluchers ; straight lasts in regular $19 shoes; reduced to. . . 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Positively no Reser vations No Phone or Mail Orders None sent C. O. D. None exchanged. While any remain you have un restricted choice at S1.00APAIR inlllllllH A i