Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1920 — AMERICANS ARE RATED AS “FAIR GAME TO KILL” [ARTICLE]

AMERICANS ARE RATED AS “FAIR GAME TO KILL”

Johannisburg, East Prussia, Aug. 11.—Reports that Mlawa, an important city on the Warsaw-Danzig railway was taken by the Russian bplshevik on Tuesday and that soviet cavalry was within rifle shot of Warsaw, the fall of which was expected Thursday or Friday, were brought here today by a correspondent of the Koenigsborg Allegemeine Zeitung. There have beenno official dispatches indicating the soviet-armies have taken Mlawa and most recent advices from the fighting area have shown the bolsheviki to be some 30 miles from the Polish capital. 1 Americans, British and French who are lighting with the Poles against the bolsheviki are considered “fair game to kill” by the common soldiers of the soviet army. The. correspondent, who spent some time along the bolshevik front said he had been given most courteous consideration. Bolsheviki cavjMry, he said, is excellently equipped with machine guns which are operated from the saddles.