Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1920 — WARSAW OPEN TO RUSSIAN SOVIETS [ARTICLE]

WARSAW OPEN TO RUSSIAN SOVIETS

Poles Must Quit City at Once, Say Allies. CAPITAL IS TO BE MOVED Haller's Forces Abandon Defenses Along the River Bug. Warsaw’s Last Line of Defense, Without Destroying the Bridges. Paris, Aug. 5. —Warsaw will have to he evacuated within a few days, In the opinion of the French and British military experts there, and the government is expected to be moved within that period, probably to Cracow. The report of the members of the military mission, telegraphed here, declared that the Polish army along the River Bug, had retreated so precipitately that it did not even destroy the bridges behind it. This river was Warsaw's line of defense. Wounded Tax Hospitals. Cracow, Poland, Aug. s.—Thousands of wounded soldiers are taxing hospital facilities here, and doctors and nurses, exhausted by long vigils, are often dropping beside the operating tables. The American Red Cross lias opened an Improvised school for nurses and 300 women are being given a hasty elementary course. L Failure of Parley Stuns Warsaw. Warsaw. Aug. s.—The suspense under which Warsaw has labored for three days was heightened by the news that the negotiations at Baranovitchi between the Polish and soviet Russian armistice commissions had been without result. The report that the Russian soviet government insisted that peace conversations begin at once caused a sensation In political circles. Announcement was made that Gen. Romer’s party was authorized only to confer with the bolshevlki on the question of an armistice. Tills was in line with the understanding that prevalled when the Polish emissaries left this city for the fropt. The breaking oft of the negotiations was due to a misunderstanding, according to the contention of the Russian soviet authorities in a wireless dispatch received here. The latest communication from the soviet suggests the negotiations both for an armistice nnd for peace be held in Minsk today. It asks that the Poles send a delegation to Minsk invested with all the necessary credentials to negotiate for peace. The Poles contend that it will be physically impossible for them to comply with this proposal. Officials of the American consulate have packed up their most Important records for prompt shipment from this City Jn case the Russian bolshevlki continue to advance. The task of vising the passports of the hundreds who desire to leave Warsaw will continue until the consulate is forced to close. Outgoing trains for Vienna, Posen and Danzig are crowded, and seat reservations are selling at a large premium. People are fighting to gain entrance to the station platforms and rush for places to sit or stand as soon as the trains back in. A close guard is maintained by troops, who inspect all paper to see that no soldiers depart until they bear proper credentials. While the Polish delegates are retracing their steps homeward from Raranovltchi, where the conference with the bolshevlki ended so abruptly, the bolshevlki troops are reported everywhere to be pressing their attacks on the entire battle front from the East Prussian line on the north to the region adjacent to Lemberg in Galicia on the south. Inside the great battle arc the Poles are hurriedly preparing defenses, particularly trenches f and barbed-wire entanglements in front of Warsaw. Many Americans and British subjects, including number of former officers, are reported by the recruiting officers to be enlisting in the Polish volunteers. British Irritated. London. Aug. 5. —The British government is irritated over what it believes is soviet Russia’s equivocation over the British suggestion that the Russians halt at the armistice line' of root ion in Poland and begin peace negotiations. It has dispatched a sharp note to the soviet government demanding a yes or no answer as to whether that government Intends to listen to the suggestion. The note, it is reported, contains no threats and is not In the nature of an ultimatum, simply requesting a quick answer as to what soviet Russia intends to do.