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Show P HO BOLSHEVIK I ARMIES ROUTED I li OFFENSIVE T Throw Down Arm in Panic tfc as Polish-Ukrainian Force $j Make Advance j if ATTACKERS UNITED j , BY RECENT TREATY Believe Armenia to Join With Soviets if Allies Do Not j Take Control j $ 1 WARSAW, May 5. (By the As sociated Press.) Fighting between be-tween the Poles and Bolsheviki for possession of Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, continue day and night. In the entire and semi-circle of the Kiev bridgehead they Polish infantry is .In contact with7 the Bolsheviki Infnnirv. I The Poles are slowly pushing back the enemy in the face of machine ma-chine gun and artillery resistance. BERis'E, May 5. Reports that two Russian .Bolshevik armies have been routed and virtually destroyed in the course of the Polish-Ukranian offensive offen-sive against Kiev seem to be eon-firmed eon-firmed by dispatches received here. Bolshevik troops were thrown into a panic by the rapid advance of the Polish and Ukranlan armies and retreated re-treated precipitately from some parts of the front, leaving large quantities of arms and ammunition on tho field, it is said. Ulcrajiluu peasants in terri-i terri-i tory still lcld by; 'the.4 Epliheviki are l declared Ho 'be m rebellion. . Reason for Movement. ) " BERLIN, May 5.- (By the Associ- atod Press.) Dr. Porsch,. the UJtran-ian UJtran-ian miiWsterrln Borllri. Jn an. interview tfljday inhecuo Borliner. ZeJtung,, movement against Russia was the out-i come of a carefully .deliberated formal' treaty under which the independence j of thfi Ukraine was rruaranteed. He I I added that Ukrania was obliged to cede certain districts in Galacia, which Indisputably wero Ukranlan, to Poland In order to seouro this guarantee. ' Women Recalled. BATUM, Caucasia, May 5. (By the Associated Press,) All American i women workers with tho American J committee for relief In the near east have been ordered into Tlflis by Colonel Colo-nel William N. Haskell, in charge of operations, as a result of the capture of Baku by tho Russian Bolsheviki. A few women engaged In relief worn north of tho Caucasus mountains havo been Gent hero. ' Georgia has refused to permit Ar- ' menlan railroads to obtain oil, caus ing virtual suspension of 'railroad traffic traf-fic and interruption of tho shipment of relief supplies. Alignment of Georgia with tho Bol- j jn. shcvikl is expected soon. If tho allied forces do not take over control hero, it Is believed Armenia may form .an allianco with tho Soviets. Trade Impossible. If MOSCOW, May 3. Resumption of h ,4 intercourse between Russia and allied j U countries is at present impossible, of- ji ficials of the soviet believe. They I take this view as a result of the Polish f; offensive and tho stand taken by Pre- mier Lloyd George of Great Britain 8! against receiving Maxim Litvinoff as J n. member of tho Russian delegation I for reopening trade relations. Can Enter Kiev. PARIS, May 6. Advices received at noon by the foreign office- with re- J gard to the Polish offensive against tho Bolsheviki in the Ukraine say that' I the Poles could enter Kiev, he Ultran- ' ' lan capital, but are waiting to per- t mlt tho Ukranian forces to be the ( H first to eater the city. ML4 Village Captured. M LONDON, May G. Tho capture of j a village 47 miles north of Kiev by U the Bolsheviki is announced in an of- H ficial statement received today from (1 fzj Moscow under date of Wednesday. m oo |