Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1920 — POLES VICTORS ON WIDE FRONT [ARTICLE]

POLES VICTORS ON WIDE FRONT

Lutsk, Important Fortified City Near Vladimir-Volhynsk, Captured. * FOUR OTHER TOWNS TAKEN Russian Bolshevik Armies Claim Gaine In Crimea—Report Destruction of Enemy Automobile Column Southeast of Kovel. Warsaw, Sept. 20. —Lutsk, an important fortified city 40 miles east of Vladimir-Volhynsk, has been captured by the Poles, who have won successes along a front of aproximately 240 miles, says an official statement issued here. * Polish forces continue to advance east of Vladimir-Volynski, southeast of Brest-Litovsk, and have occupied the ♦owns of Poreskov and Chorostov. The towns of Kamlen and KaspiFski, north of Kovel, have been taken, the Russian soviet armies losing 1,000 prisoners. Crimean Soviet Army Holds. London, Sept. 20. —Successes for the Russian bolshevik armies on some of their fronts are claimed in Thursday’s official communique issued at Moscow? and received by wireless. The "soviet army is holding its opponents in Crimea. The statement says: “In the Bienlovl, Eshskai and Push' toh region fighting continues with alternating successes. In the region of * Kobrin (northeast of Brest-Litovsk) the fighting is in our favor. “We have destroyed a large enemy automobile column which penetrated to the southeast of Kovel. “In the Halicz region of Galicia our "troops have engaged with forces which crossed to the left bank of the River Dniester. “In the Crimean sector, in the Verb-hne-Tokmak region, the reds are holding *the enemy’s cavalry, which Is trying to break through beyond the Pollgi-Starekonstartinovka railway* Daghestan Forces Revolt. Tiflis, Trans-Caqcasia. Sept. 20. — The mountaineers of Daghestan have begun an uprising against the bolshevlkl, whose headquarters fire at Vladikavkaz in mid trans-Caficasla. The Daghestan forces are being aided by several thousand of General Denikine’s former soldiers and also by Tartars, Azerbaijans and Kuban and Terek Cossacks. .