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Show CAMPAIGN PROBERS SUDDENLY ADJOURN ARMY OF RED GENERAL ANNIHILATED I NOTED CAVALRY I LEADER HARD I HIT BY POLES I Bolsheviki Lose Thousands of Prisoners. Big Guns I and Supplies POLAND AND WRANGEL MAY JOIN FORCES Peace Delegation Returning to I Moscow Before Resuming I Deliberations J waksaw. Sept - The Bolshevik army oi General Budenny. noted cav-airy cav-airy leader, was annihilated during the operations In the Lr-mberg sector which begin August 29 and ended September 1. says the Polish official statement Isolated detachments of the Dud- enny forces succeeded In escaping and are In disorderly, retreat. General Budenny s mounted men have been endeavoring to break ihrouKh the Polish lines and march upon Lublin. Thev had nearly com-pleted com-pleted an encircling movement against H Zamosz. midway between Lublin anel Lembergi but were outflanked by the 'jH Poles and attacked from the east, tho communication states. The engage-ment engage-ment resulted in the defeat of the. SOttel forces along the entire center of the from and the Russians were compelled to retreat m disorder with jH the Poles In close pursuit t HI lis ins I II K WILY f The Bqlshevikl lost heavily in killed H and wounded, added the statement, the Poles capturing thousands of prisoners, IK guns and enormous quan-I quan-I titles of mat' rial. H The fighting centered in the Zamosz jreglon. the battle taking the form of jH ! numerous cavalry e lashes with the In-funtry. In-funtry. filling In the gups and attack-ing attack-ing all along Hie line simultaneously. 'f Desidi the Zamosi battle, the com- lH niuique reports successes along the entire center and southern fronts jH where the Russians were bested in the fighting BUDS M M IT DKI KAT LONDON, s.pt 2. The Russian soviet forces endeavoring to encircle Lemherg have retired to the eastward under Polish pressure, says the soviet official statement of Wedhesda) re-celved re-celved today by wireless onie sue- Bses for the soviet troops are re-ported re-ported on the center of the fighting Wot I Ii JOIN FORCES It WARSAW, Sept. 2. Negotiations for Joint operations by Polish and south Russian forces are going on be-tween be-tween the government here and Gen-eral Gen-eral Wrangel. Cooperation between the I'kranlans is declared to be a grave menace to the bolsheviki. and it is said the latter have shown their ap-pr. ap-pr. elation of this by offering import- L ant concessions to Poland at tho ex-pense ex-pense of Lithuania. Pf These otters, it Is asserted, were made by soviet representatives at semi-official conferences with mem-bers mem-bers of the Polish peace delegation nhlle it was in Mllnsk. POI BS iMvi: row N PARIS, Sept. 2. The Poles have occupied Seyny, In Lithuania, east of Buwalkl, for strategic reasons, the for-cga for-cga office announced today. The.. also are advancing beyond Suwalkl for the same reason, it was added STATUS OF PI ICE WARSAW, Sept 2. (By the Asso-elated Asso-elated Press) ThS members of Ihe Polish peace delegation remaining in .Minsk have been recalled to Warsaw. They are expected here Saturday, join ink' the delegates already m Warsaw. The Polish representatives will then proceed to Riga or any other neutral I place selected for the continuation of the Russo-Polish peace conference. Prince Sapieha, the Polish foreign minister, talking to newspaper corrc-spondents corrc-spondents this afternoon, said thai Qeorce Tchitcherlu, the soviet foreign minister, favors some Ksthonlan town probabl Laval. The Poles favor Alga Latvia, Prince Sapieha declared, but jH win not place obstacles in the way ol jH thi selection of a place satisfactory "fl to the sovleis and will not endangei the conference by insisting upon Riga. (Warsaw dispatches of August 29 un-jnounced un-jnounced the receipt of a Moscow wire-less wire-less message accepting the Polish pro posaj tor transfer of tho peace nego-illations nego-illations from Minsk to RisjaO Tie remaining Polish delegates In JH Minsk will meet the soviet represen-tatlves represen-tatlves there Thursday for ihe last time t.j assure each other that the departure de-parture o( the delegations from Minsk J does noi mean the breaking off of ne- Prince Sapieha may find it necesaar) j to accompany the Polish delegates 1 when the conference is renewed. nn. |