Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — BOLSHEVIKI CAPTURE VILNA [ARTICLE]

BOLSHEVIKI CAPTURE VILNA

Germans Disarm and Rob Poles , Driven From City. Warsaw, Jau. 10. —Vilna has fallen Into the hands of the bolshevik army, several thousand strong, which drove out the Polish militia. A massacre pf civilians began at once, partly because the Poles had offered resistance and had arrested or shot the members of the local bolshevik committees. The Polish troops, who had no cannon and only a few cartridges per rifle and were under command of General Veitko, retreated to Lanovarova, where they were disarmed by the Germans and sent to Bialystob. There they were robbed by the Germans ahd were started off for Polish territory'/" Lemberg, where the Poles are defending themselves against qians, appears safe for the time being.