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Show Poland Still Hopes To Save Us Capital WARSAW. Aug. 5. 9 p. m. (By The Associated PreSB). The defensive defen-sive line east of Warsaw has been pierced In several places, according to reports from 'he front. Preparations have been begun for transferring the government If that move Is necessitated necessi-tated by the Russian advance. The officials, however, siill hope the sov-I sov-I let forces will be checked somewhere j east of the Vistula No announcement has been made las to what place the government would move to. but It Is reported It would be Poscp or Cxestochowa. 113 miles southwest of Warsaw, near the Slleslan frontier. 9 Rl lis t H iss in ;. Of the developments along the eastern defense Una, the word from the front shows that after a halt of several das whll reinforcements were brought up and supplies forwarded for-warded along the river, the Bolshev-Ikl Bolshev-Ikl forced crossings of the Hug at n number of places. At one point, southeast of Ostroy, the soviet troops are reported to have crossed the river In large numbers. Tonight's communique from headquarters head-quarters announced lhat the Russians had forced the Hug In the region of Drohioiyn (about 70 miles cast of tho capital), this being a part of tho soviet movement to outflank the defend) de-fend) re of Warsaw. The Poles counter-attacked and fierce fighting Is continuing- BOU6HJ im REP1 i 51 D. Between Drohiezyn and Brest-L.lt-ovsk, the communique continues, the Poles launched a counter-attack against the Russians who had crossed cross-ed the Bug below Brest-Lltovsk. In the region of Brest-Liiov sk, which la in the hands of the Russians, they recoiled for an attack which compelled compell-ed the Poles to evacuate Tcrespol, Jut to the west of the river. There was fighting at arlous points to the south, but without gains for the Russians. The soviet troops have been checked check-ed In their westwurd puh along the Prussian border, the statement announces an-nounces They have reached Mysz-nlcc Mysz-nlcc In an advance apparently designed design-ed to bring them to the Warsaw-Pan-zig railway. Military observers assert as-sert that this is part of the Russian outflanking movement planned to encircle en-circle the capital. Russian gains arc conceded north ' and cast of Warsaw where the soviet forces are regrouping for what may 1 be the final exertion in their attemnt , to bring Poland to their terms of : peace bv directly threatening her capital. cap-ital. LMERIC INS l R IXSFERRED. WARSAW, Aug o. 635 p. m. i By The Associated Preas). Owing to the desperate situation on the front j nearem Warsaw, the Koscluszko squadron, the air force comoosed for I im ii iimkumj I tho most part of Americans, attached to the Polish army. Is being trans-i trans-i ferred from tho southern front. The i squadron will aid in the defense of 1 the Polish capital. The American consulate In Warsaw will be closed Friday and Consul Rankin Ran-kin Is making preparations to depart ' Friday night. Moat of the records hove already been shipped away. The American legation here Is also l ared to close within a ery fw The legation employes have hipped all their bagguge to Camp' Grappa, ih? emergency headquarters' of ihe American typhus expedition. j The operations of the Koscluszko squadron will be begun In Its newi field within two or three days. Mean-; while bullet battered tanks which saw service In the great war rumbled . through the streets of Warsaw today on the way to engage the Russians., The arrival also began of 76 millimetre milli-metre guns which the French used against the Germans on the western front. Several artillery detachments srlth these gins as their weapons left for the nearest front where fighting with the Russians was in progress. These batteries were expected to bo-gfn bo-gfn action on Friday. |