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Show i POLES BOTTLING UP" B0LSHE1F0RCES 80VIET ARMY HA8 BEGUN RE- TREAT, APPARENTLY ON EVE OF COMPLETE DISASTER. The Gateway of Escape Appears to Have Been Closed, the Poles Taking Prisoners and War Materials In Quantities. Warsaw. The process of bottling up the Russian soviet forces on tho northern front between l'russla and tho Vistula river has been completed, uccordlug to nn official statement, tho I'oles havo closed tho gntowny of escape, tnklng prisoners nnd muterinls In such iiunntltles thnt It Is Imposslblo to count them. One Polish Infantry division nlono took WXK) prisoners and sixteen guns. Tho soviet forceH which lmvo been menacing Lcmberg from tho east and south, havo commenced to rctrcnt under un-der pressuro due, tho statement hays, to tho continued Polish advance along tho entire central and northern fronts. All tho llusslnns In tho I.embcrg region ore In full retreat. Twenty-two cannon wero tnken during dur-ing tho advance on tho central front under tho personal command of President Presi-dent PIlKiidskl, tho Poles occupying 'nmbrov und Mazowlcck, southeast of Loiuzn nnd crossing the lino of tho Nu-rew Nu-rew south of Illnlystok, 120 miles northwest of Warsaw. Tho Kusslnn rotreut continued In tbo general direction direc-tion of Grodno and eastward. Soviet Russian armies which Invaded Invad-ed Polniul und threatened to enpturo Warsaw appear to be on tho ovo ot complete dlsnster, suya tho Wnrsnw correspondent of tho Pnris Mntln. Ho quotes General Weygnnd ns snylng Poland Po-land will bo tho "grave of three-fourths of tho Ilolshevlk army." Tho correspondent corre-spondent declares (lie Ilolshovlkl will soon bo forced Into n hurried general retreat, and that discipline tins broken down In their ranks. |