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Show COUNTERSTROKE ronni cnmcTc MIUIVI JUKILI J LITTLEJEARED I General Weycjand Says Reds Used All Their Resources and Failed POLES TO ENTRENCH TO KEEP OUT ENEMY France Urges Poland to Press I Advantacie to Obtain Better Terms PARIS. Aug 27 Bolshevik reaction agalns Polish armies along the front H east of Warsaw is not expected, at H h-:is- for the present, by General Wey gaud, who is credited with having dl rected the defense of the Polish capital and hurled the .soviet armies back from (hat city, according t, the War-saw War-saw correspondent of the Petit Paris-len. Paris-len. General Weyand is quoted H saying the Poles should not adTmcf so far eastward, but should cntrencr themselves along a line that can ca.sllj be held, so that they may be ah'.p to any effort on the part of soviet Russia to bring over helming forcef against them in future. EUESOl RCES POOR. "It is most difficult to be a prophel nt this moment, " the corresponnent iliiotcs the general as saying, "but we can. for the moment feel re-assured. rr the Btashevlkl undoubtedly used everything available to take Warsaw. Those resources were mediocre, es-pcclally es-pcclally in artillary. a large part of which has been captured by the Pole. At the beginning of their offensive, however, they had everything In their faor and were beaten. "General Wrangcl seems strong and well equipped and in his south R.U9-slon R.U9-slon progress, which Is not haphazard but systematic. on gets the Impression ; that he is administering skillfully in t I occupied territories, so that he will 1 not,-like General Denlklne, leave re-' re-' volt behind him. We may, then, oe j optimistic and I leave Ytarsaw with an j excellent impression of the situation and full of hope, but am convinced ! that hard work Is needed to make the Polish armv worthy ot its task." I RANCH CUM KILNED. PARIS, Aug. 27. (By The Assocl-ated Assocl-ated Press ) The foreign ministry announced today that France had ' counselled Poland to obtain the beat j strategical military position possible until peace Is signed, regardless of her I ethnographical frontier, because tne 1 military situation will Influence the I peace terms. France has advised Poland, however, to withdraw her armies within the Polish frontier upon the signing of peace, the foreign office added. Eighty thousand Russian soviet sol-dlerS sol-dlerS have been captured In Poland. j 40.000 killed and 30.000 Interned In I Bast Prussia, according to the latest report received from the French mis-slon mis-slon In Poland. FIGHTING FOR FORT. DONDON, Aug 2 7. The Poles and Russians are fighting fiercely for the forts of Brest-Lltovsk. the strongly for-I for-I fled town on the Bug river. 120 miles j east of Warsaw, says the Russian sov-let sov-let official statement of Thursday, re-solved re-solved here by wireless today. In the Lcinberg sector violent fighting is con-tlnulng con-tlnulng with fluctuating results The statement adds: "On the Crimean sector In the Kber-son Kber-son region we have again driven bacK the enemy. In the Oriekov region ex-ceedingly ex-ceedingly fierce fighting la proceeding with considerable forces of enemy cavalry " I I (.ITT OVKR BORDER. WARSAW, Aug 27. (By The As-soclated As-soclated Press.) Russian soviet troops who took refuge In Trussla are fight-Ing fight-Ing the Poles along the frontier. An official statement issued just before last midnight sayHthat two soviet bat-, bat-, teries hauled Into Prussia by the re-treating re-treating Russians, fired upon the Poles I and that the 9ovlet forces are also I using machine guns against the Polos on this sector. Polish troops who have reached the frontier have been cau-Honed cau-Honed by their eommanders not lo fire upon German territory While there has been a lull In the I fighting on various sectors, the Poles advanc d at several places Thursday I and have reached the region of Kob-I Kob-I rln, approximately "S miles northeast I of Brest-ItitfWSki where the Poles In a surprise attack took 1.100 prison-I prison-I er:', four guns and the entire staff of 1 the 57th soviet division- In continuation of the long drawn 1 out campaign to capture Lemberg the soviet forces hn reached Zadworze. just east of Lemberg. where tho Poles have repulsed repeated attacks, |