Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1920 — POLES WIN FORT AFTER HARD FIGHT [ARTICLE]

POLES WIN FORT AFTER HARD FIGHT

Capture Ostrolenka From Russians and Force Passage Narew River. REDS BRING UP RESERVES Fifteenth- Soviet Army Taken After Remnant of Fourth Cut Way Out, Only to Be Again Encircled — Wrange! Takes Nororosiysk. Pariß, Aug. 27.—The Russian soviet forces have evacuated Vllnn, Lithuania. and the railway station and public buildings there were occupied by Lithuanians, according to news reaohing tlie French foreign office. Warsaw, Aug. 27. —Russian sovldt reserves tire reported being brought up on the southern front in great numbers. According to information In the hands of the I’olish general. Haller, reserves some distance behind the bolshevlst northern front also are being brought pp. Polish troops, after hard fighting, captured the fortress of Ostrolenka, 22 miles northwest of Lomzn, and forced a passage of the Narew river. Trap Fifteenth Russ Army. On the central front the Poles have carried out a flanking movement to the north and have occupied Knyszyn, 15 miles of Bialystok. 120 miles northwest of Warsaw, and Stawlskt, 12 miles northeast of Lomza, 83 miles northwest of Warsaw. Occupation of these towns, with the capture of Kolno, completes the work of forging a ring around the Fifteenth bolshevik army. Other soviet forces have reassembled at various places and are making repented attacks in their attempts to break the Polish cordons. Nine attacks were made in the region of Kolno yesterday, but all are said to have been repulsed with enormous losses. Among the qaptlves Is the commander of a boishevist division. In the maneuver which resulted in the occupation of Lemza. the # Poles took more than 2,000 prisoners and nine cannon. There was street fighting in BHilystok for more than 14 hours before the holshevlkl were finally ousted from the place. Remnants Cut Way Out. Remnants of the Fourth Russian holshevist army, which were cut off

by tile Polish advance In .the region of Kolno. have succeeded In cutting their way through to the eastward, after a battle lasting ten hours, according to an official statement Issued here. The soviet troops carried out a regrouping maneuver and succeeded In making their way out of the trap which had closed upon them, but at last accounts were surrounded by numerous forces of the Fourth Polish army. The Fifth Polish army continues Its work of rounding up detachments of bolshevlki in the region west of the railroad running from Novogergievsk to Mlawa. Reports received from the war department declare the Fifty-fifth holshevlst division has been called from Grodno to attempt to drive the Poles out of Blalystok. In the neighborhood of that cly more than 7,000 prisoners nml eighteen guns were taken by the Poles. Polish successes in the neighborhood of Lemberg are also reported. Wrangel Takec Novorossiysk. Sebastopol, Crimea, August 27.— South Russian forces, commanded by Gen. Buron Peter Wrangel. have cnptured the important city of Novorogsl.vsk, the Black sea terminus of the railroad lending eastward ro Ekaterinodnr in the 'province of Kuban, and have entered the Donetz hasln coal district, north of the River Don, ac*cording to an announcement here. General Wrangel announced plans for the reorganization of his forces into two armies and one Independent corps.