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Show L BOLSHEVIKI TAKE MORE STRONGHOLDS I MINSK TAKEN BK I RUSSIAN TROOPS, I VILNA TOTTERS S, American Relief Association ; and Red Cross Quits Menaced Cities. ALLIES MAKE PROPOSAL TO POLISH GOVERNMENT M -4 Powers Desire Armistice Be- V tween Belligerents; Border to Be Mentioned. 4 LONDON, July R la '"- orci i!i authoritative quarters In M I spa that Premier Llojd Gcorg If lias received from ,j George Tchltchcriii Bolshevik commissary fr "' :ffh8, accepting the propo nls ol the allies for an armistice between Poland and Russia, according to a Spa dispatch to Exchange Telegraph. LONDON. July 13 Minsk has been captured by Russian Bolshevik forces, jH according to an official statement ie- eclved here from. Moscow, which says BH tho soviet troops occupied the town R&K on the morning of July 11 mfll The communique also announces HHS ' the capture of the town of Svcnts.any. mk 5,6 mlles BOUth of DvlnBk und 50 mUes northeast of U , j The statement continues: -In the direction of Uschltso w A captured a section of the rail ' rr"tn ,1 Qukhevltch station to Bobrt Hon In the ttovno region ' m pursuing the enemy, o copied Olyka SflsH village In the .:ir. ctlOn of Tumopol wo occupied the station of Charay-gUK Charay-gUK Ustroff (50 miles east of Tarnopoi) SHcjSRc capturing an armored train' HHS Minsk Is the capital of the Russian jVRa government mate of the same hHB and Is situated on a branch of the aBttBjj Bereslna river appio.xini.itei .: miles ffWWB northeast of Warsaw. For some time BhB the Russian soviet forces have been aRfisggl converging on Minsk from the north and south and the position f the Wm city has seemed to be serious. Tho vj fall Qt Minsk would : to Indlcau J that Vllna, about li" n "SsS northwest, is in Immediate- danger of ISKsSlr capture by tho feolsheviki AMI EUOAN6 LE WE IwHffi WARSAW July 12. (Uy The As- Wsfc-jfrl ' social- i Press) The Am i relief IffijVK association and the American rted lJrrff5jl Cross have completed evacuation oi nl Vllna In the nortu and of Lemberg on HH the southern front. At last accounts B tho Bolshevlkl were forty kilometers I from Vllna Extensive preparations I havo been made lor that City's de- Cense. Lemberg la not yet In danger Tho Bolshevlkl hae occupied Fon-latyose Fon-latyose and Vlasyn and are approaching approach-ing Bfolodetchna They arc pressing the attack despite enormous Iosj, the statement says. While the evacuation of Warsaw La being considered by foreigners snoulu it be menaced by me Bolshevlkl, confidence con-fidence is expressed In American circles that the bolshevlkl will never pas the line of ethnographical Poland Po-land as the peasants are reported to be organising to Join the army. PROPOS Jj t ONFIRMED. LONDON. July 12. Further offic ial confirmation was given today that ti.e allies had made propOSSla to the Kus-sian Kus-sian soviet governmonl for an immediate imme-diate armistice on equitable terms im-tween im-tween Poland and Russia It wus given In the house of commons by Andrew Bonar Law, government spokesman He alo declared that the soviet government gov-ernment had accepted Great Britain's terms for a resumption of trade. When asked to state the terms of the agreement Mr. Bonar Uw declined de-clined to say more than that tie message to Moscow dealing with the Polish armistice dealt aHo With trade. The question was raised whether the allies had threatened to d fcild Poland If the BOViet declined an arinis-tice. arinis-tice. Mr. Bonar Law would not niw details, but he said that the British negotiations did not luvolve i i nation na-tion of tho soviet. POLES DISSATISFIED. SPA. July 12. The Polish delegation delega-tion at the conference here Is understood under-stood to bo very much dissatisfied With the terms of tho allied note to Ihe Russian soviet government proposing an armistice between tho Bolshevik and Polish armies They fcl. however, how-ever, they will be obliged to '.ecept. Dispatches have announced the sending of a proposal by the allies to Moscow lor an armistice, with Poland on condition that the Poles retire lth-ln lth-ln the natural Polish frontier. WASHINGTON, J ub 12. Doubt is entertained In some official quarters In close tOUl ii with the situation on the Polish-Bolshevik lront aa to the ultimate ability of the Poles lo hold as an armistice line, the tentative boundary of Poland fixed ny the supreme su-preme council. Poland, in advancing ).. . troops beyond th's iir , offered us Justification, the absence of strategic defenses on tho border determined lor tho Polish tdate by the allies. Promise of substantial French and British support lo Poland, eondltb ncd on withdrawal of her army o the armistice line, in discounted in i hi same quarter by reason nf what I bald to be the ability of the allies lo give to Poland munitions an I i ,i. |