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Show I SOVEF ARMY IS TRAPPED; 75,000 TAKEN HUGE QUANTITY I BP MATERIALS I FALLS TO POLES I Poland to Be Grave of Three-fourths Three-fourths ol Soviet Army, j Is Claim PEACE PARLEY TAKES ON DIFFERENT ASPECT Hundreds of French Officers in Command of Victorious Forces W KYV lug. 23. ffeC pro-cc- of bottling up the Russian ioviel forces on te northern from between lnis-hi and the n Vistula river iia Ifccn oomplet- ed, according to an official state- " men! Issued jut before last mid- 1 nibi The police have closed the gateway i' i- rap. . taking prisoners prison-ers and materials in sin Ii quail- J titles thai it id I ni possible to count I then PARIS, lug -22. smut Rus ! lan armies which Invaded l'-laud l'-laud aiid ilireoteoed to capture Waraavi appear i be uu ttu eve , of complete disaster, says the w i i correspondent f the M a He iint General Weygand us sayluis Poland will be the grave oi three-fourths of the bl-sncvUt bl-sncvUt ui'inj." WASHINGTON lug I'o-lund I'o-lund luu been cauti oed h tin-linerl tin-linerl tu govcrnmenl nol to per mil her armies In ihclr preeeni I countcr-olfciisivc ugsintl its Itusslau boUlicvikl t ud ance be- ii 'iini ilie Uniograpliic boundaries boundar-ies "i Poland nforuml rcprcHculntons on toe subji i. ii wa s nU d, official) , todu) liavo been made ti tin t'oii-ii govern men i tlirougb the Lmericaii chargi a Warsaw. PAK18, (Bj The Associated Press) Aug. tt. 'Ihe number of Russian so-.hi so-.hi prisoners captured in ihe Polish counnu-otlni vMll amount to 75.-O0U, 75.-O0U, according to Warsaw advices to the Prancb toreign office today. .losi of the Xo,000 prisoners at-reaiiy at-reaiiy counted were captured in tho territory northwest of Warsaw, in-eluding in-eluding i tie Danzig corridor, by the army una i command of the Prenoh gener.ti, iMImii'. 1 ins army now is most Sffoctlve and is composed of German trained men of posen, Another Polish army under rem-mand rem-mand of D'rcnoh General Henry ts striking toward Blalystok from VVSr-saw, VVSr-saw, cutting off the iJulhevlk re- A third Pol h column under I'res-ident I'res-ident Pllsudski alread) has passed Brest-Lltovsk, cutting off the boishc-vlk boishc-vlk Oaliuean army. Ths French lorelffn offlcs un-nouneed un-nouneed today thai General Weygand now In chief of lie. Polish Staff with lull power, and that most of the l,-ouj l,-ouj French officers in Poland arc actuall) participating in the eight- ihe Polish peace delegates at Minsk ii. ic reported mat thi .-o e t re pre-sentatives pre-sentatives are int-ieamg in severity the published peace terms, demand-Ing demand-Ing now thai 200(000 Polish workmen be given tn. arms ihe bolhevlkl hope the Polish .u my will lay down. WARSAW, Aug. 22 ( Uy The As-.-nclated Press). Polish forces have ken the town of Gruduk, about 1J miles north of Clechanow, and have cut off retreat of liolshevlk forces northwest and north of this city by iii. way of ICIawa and Prsasnysa The eighteenth l'ohsh division which has been attacking Clechanow has been met by desperate reslstanco on the part of enemy detachmeni3 covering the retreat of the fourlh BOV- "H uy, which last week advanced. along the Vistula river. fH After capturing Clechanow. the Poles advanced rapidl northward and succeeded In cutting the only ig t railwaj lln eastward from iip positions, Tim foreign office announcement of ; Saturday night thSJ Poland would not ' accept the Russian soviet terms pre-anted pre-anted to the Polish peace delegates at .Minsk refers to thoso submitted by M. DanlshoVSky, chairman of the soviet delegation at Thursdays ses-slon ses-slon of the Kuaso-Polish conference. lie. Polish delegation's instructions were to insist upon an honorable und durable peace, and it was said at tho foreign office today that no new in-structtons in-structtons had been sent. It is assumed here that representa-lives representa-lives of the Hussion soviet goera-ment goera-ment presented their peace terms at the Minsk conference before tho Pol-ish Pol-ish delegates received word from War-saw War-saw of the decided change in the mill-tary mill-tary situation which now favors Po? land. It Is believed ihe Polish deb -nation in Minsk I" fully informed of military and other developments, |