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Show GIRLS JOIN ARMY TO HELP SAVE POLAND I BDY SCOUTS AND I STUDENTS RUSH I TO CHECK REDS I Condition of Poland Critical as i Bolshevik Army's Advance Goes Unchecked SOCIALISTS DECLARE I THEY WILL AID DEFENSE Parades of Girl Recruits in Warsaw Arouse Enthusiasm Along Main Streets WARSAW, July f. (By the A.o-elated A.o-elated Prssa I 'wing to the critical H condition of the country, volunteers H for active asrylcC In the army are H Offering themselves from every side. H They Include school and unlversltj H teachers, student. Boy Scouts, civil H orVants and ministerial employes, whose occupations excuse them from H military service. The students are en- B listed In inch numbers that the War-Saw War-Saw universities hive been closed Hundreds of girls and women havi H i taken initial steps to Join the army. Yesterday uniformed women soldiers, H with women officers, paraded the J streets singing nnd for the first time J , Warsaw ttM detachments of female H I recruits under the guidance of women 'officers marching to the barracks. H GIRT.s PARADE sTTtl'I Ts Many of the recruits were slronx H girla in short skirt and shirtwaist! with braided hair hanging down thelt backs. The sight of female recruiu aroused enthusiasm everywhere along H iho principal streets Mixed with thi Kitl recruits were women of from 23 H yi irs who swung parasols, pin and market packages In arms which will soon carry rifles. The women's battalions will be used H hlefly for guard duty In garrisons and H food depots and av escOrts, thus relieving men for the front lines. J & i i ivrs I OR DEFENCE The Socialist; party central commit-tee commit-tee today Issued tho following procla-mat procla-mat Ion: h'- Polish troops were ad- j valu ing v e demanded peace but now Iwe ought to defend ourselves firmly We M'p'-U m the sold'.ers to fulfill their promise to tin country against the otfer.ders. The government ivow-ever ivow-ever ought to give guarantees that it desires peace, declare to the world thai Polgnd desires a Just peace and J address to the Soviet government pro-posals pro-posals for peace negotiations.' H SOVIET TROOPS W WCK WARSAW, July 8. (By the Assoc!-ated Assoc!-ated Press Bolshevik troops have crossed the Beresina in strong force rTH nSav Navoslalkl southeast of Borisov. about fifty milts northwest of Minsl.. lit vvas announced In today's Polish of-flCla of-flCla communique. 1 ROM is sl MUD LONDON. July 8. Russian Bolshe-vik Bolshe-vik for.ces have smashed their way forward on the southern flank of th Polish front and Soviet military au jtiiorlttes claim successes near Staro-Konstantinuv Staro-Konstantinuv toward which town they tare driving the Poles, according to a I Bolshevik statement received here by wireless. Soviet forces have reached LItltchev 2 4 miles east of Proskirov and have occupied Mohilev-Podolsk. tleavy lighting Is going on between t lie BOrahevlk and General Wrangel's forces on the southern front, the state-ment state-ment CRY FOR VOLUNTEERS WARSAW July G. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press) Volunteers for Immedl-ate Immedl-ate service against the advancing Bol- H shevik forces are called for by the Polish national council of defense in a m:i nlfe'.to just I .Men unfit for 'active service are urged to register in order to release office men for dut at the The document, which bears the slg-nature slg-nature of President Pilaudekl. declares Mho struggle Is a fight against Bolshe-jvlsm Bolshe-jvlsm rather than against Russia Another proclamation addressed to the soldiers says the decisive moment baa arrived. It assure the soldiers that they are wounded their income Will be continued by the government and that provision will be made by the government for the families of those killed In battle. OLD FIGHTING LOSE, WARSAW, .luly 7. (By The Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Tho Bolshevlki, in i their advance in Volhynia have reached tho Klewan railroad Junction northwest of Rovno. The Poles arc Withdrawing before the northwesterly TH drive or General Budonny's cavalry in some places reaching the old Russo-German Russo-German fighting line. The banks ol rivers along this line are cobwebbec with barbed wire and the hillsides arc slg-sagged with trenches, while v-ar-ious elevations are dotted with Ger-man Ger-man built steel and concrete pill boxes I n i- , spected that the Poles will maki a stand along this line. AMERICANS EIGHT. Northwest of Rovno a train to which was attached tho prlvato car of General Wlart, chiof of the British military mission, was shelled by I'.udennv s urtlllery Five Polish refugees refu-gees on the train were killed and the British general's car was damaged, but none of his party was injured. Squadrons of the Polish second at my. Including the Kosclusko aerial quadron commanded by Americans, am taking a prominent part in flght-Ing flght-Ing Budenny's cavalry from the air on the Ukraine front, where the Poles withdrew in the luce of repeated raids by cavalry The American flyers tepeatedly attacked at-tacked tho horsemen In the effort to stem the westward sweep of the Bolshvlkl. |