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Show 1 SOVIET TROOPS I SLAY LEADERS I I AMD SURRENDER One Bolshevik Commander I Kills Himself When His Army Is Smashed I iJ WARSAW Sept 30. (By th- 1 if rialed Press The defeat of the Riis- H 'I elans on the roiish northern Front HB a seems virtually complete. The soviet HHJ E troops are reported fleeing eastward 1" !n disorder In an effort t avoid be- Hl f: lng surrounded by the Poles, who j tire in alone pursuit HHf j? The result of the Polish victory Is HH declared by the military experts as HH' eliminating any chance of the bol- 91 ihevlki launching the fall offensive HH which War Minister Trotzky was crd- H tied with planning to drive hack the HB r I'oles from the territory they occupli l SB ftcr the failure of the soviet attempt 1 1 !o capt 11 1 1 Warsaw. on ii l its Ml RDERED. JSIjSjw l The advices from the front report 8km I 1 hat one Russian division surrendered cEir 1 to the Poles after having murdered EjOSuj I .ill the commissaries with U who tried J $19 I to compel the troops to offer resist-j Swa once. The cenunandsr of the Third jBWji Bolsheviki army committed aulcidi . It is said, when ho realized that hif 1 HBJ command had been completely i Bgfglf smashed. HJ9 Tonight's communique reports that' B9 t'osen troops, sweeping eastward, took IflH the railway junction of Baranovichi, north of the Pinsk marshes, the key to the old German trench line. W ith HJ i it a quantity of war material was! H taken. CLOSE TO VIN . South of Ihi Pripel the Russians1 nTHOT have been pushed bach across thej ; r,v r SlUtsch. HB, Polish cavalry has occupied .Novo-HH .Novo-HH grad-Volynsk. about midway between Lutsk and Kiev. HHj This afternoon's reports show that the Poles are less than 85 miles from Vilna. the Lithuanian captjal, and I their advapri; Is continuing. |