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Show POLAND HAS TWO ' WARS ON ITS HANDS ENGAGED IN CONFLICT WITH CZECHO-SLOVAKS AS WELL AS WITH SOVIET. Eleven Hundred Men Killed In Battle j Between Poles and Czechs, As Re- suit of Dispute Over Rich I Coal Fields. London. The new republic of Poland now has two wars on its hands. Polish and Ukrainian troops are engaged en-gaged in conflict with soviet Russia on a great battlefront stretching from the Dvina river to the Lower Dnieper river. Vienna reports that war has broken out between the Poles and Czecho-Slovuks in the disputed Tes-chen Tes-chen region of what once was Austria Silesia. So far as known, the allies have not taken any decisive steps to end either of the conflicts In eastern Europe. War between the Poles and Czechoslovaks Czecho-slovaks has brol.en out in Teschen, formerly a part of Austrian Silesia, and 11W men were killed in a battle on Thursday, according to a Vienna dispatch to the Daily Express. Fighting with rifles and machine guns lias been in progress in the Kar-win Kar-win district since Wednesday and the civil population is in flight. Czech reinforcements are being rushed up to the front from Ostrau. Entente troops sent into the Tes-ehen Tes-ehen district pending a plebiscite were reported by Vienna to be remaining passive. Near Donberau, the Poles were said to be masters of the situation. The administration that jias set up at Karwln in the Teschen district is being moved to Udlaw. Polish and Czecho-Slovakian . officials offi-cials have made counter charges as to responsibility for the fighting. The original dispute was over rich coal fields in the Teschen district, which both sides claim. |