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Show . , , w. Lrtoi jii i iwin r. ivi, FIERCE BATTLE I RAGES BETWEEN I POIESAND FOE I Bolsheviki Admit Their Enemy Is Putting Up Stubborn Fight on River H 400 COSSACKS ARE H CAPTURED IN BATTLE Fears for Germany Expressed H If Russians Succeed in Overrunning Poland H LONDON, May 29. Furious fighting is in progress on the left bank of the Dnieper river where the Bolshevik! are attempting to dislodge the Poles from IH their fortified positions, according to an official statement sent out by the soviet government at Moscow Friday. The Poles are offering stubborn re-sistant. re-sistant. the statement says. "In the Tarasstcha region, (sixty miles south of Kiev) our troops over-coming over-coming tho enemy's resistance, cap- tured Tarasstcha with a number of IH villages some 27 miles distant from IH Tarasstcha," the statement adds. jH Fierce Combat Rages WARSAW, May 29. Bolshevik rein-forcenients rein-forcenients are being brought up to aid the offensive against tho Poles which is increasing in violence along the northern sectors of the front, says ' IH an official statement issued at head- . QU.r.t9r3. h.ere-4otday. .Fier,ce,cQmhats. ' aro raging from the Dvina river, on I i the north, to the Pripet river, on the -1 south, a distance of approximately 220 miles. IH Prisoners captured by the Poles lH west of the Bereslna river, the state- IH xnent said, include 400 Cossacks. IH Struggle is Fierce j An official communication Issued 'yesterday says: I "Heavy fighting continues on the Dvina. The enemy is attacking with-jout with-jout pause at different points on the 1 front between the Dvina and the Pri-I Pri-I pet. The struggle is particularly fierce northwest of Borlsov, in the region of Ploszczdwice. All attacks in this section have been repulsed, J and our detachments, counter attack-ing attack-ing after a five hour struggle, forced the enemy to retreat, defeating a bol-shevik bol-shevik brigade. We havo taken 160 IH prisoners and machine guns from ' enemy detachments whose retreat was "Our cavalry surrounded and made prisoners 400 Cossacks with their horses north of Pubrijsk. "Between the Dniester and. the Dnie-iper Dnie-iper the enemy attacked our right j flank. All attacks were repulsed and IH tho enemy was forced to retreat Our 'detachments captured a village north ; of Kiev and took sixty prisoners at the point of the bayonet." LONDON, May 28. In the Munich. diet today the Bavarian government reported that danger was threatening Germany should Russian troops over-jrun over-jrun Poland, says a wireless dispatch Trom Berlin The dispatch adds, that tho German go eminent is strengthen- ing its frontier troops as a preliml- nary measure against a possible at 1 lack, but that the Berlin autiiorities jhavo not yet said whether they regard this measure as sufficient for the eli- minatlon 6t.rt,ho danger of a Russian ! invasion. |