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Show II Halt Bolshevik Attack and I Then Drive Reds Back I WAHSAW, June 1. Polish troopB have turned to ihe offensive between I Borisow and Dobrulsk on the center I -of the front. whlcri is under attack I by the Russian Bolshevik, and on Mai' 27 occupied the line of the Bcreslna V river, according to an official statement state-ment issued at army headquarters here today. 1 "The great Bolshevik offensive, which was begun May 14 with strong forces between the Dvina and Prlpetl 1 rivers, has been completely stopped." i says an official communication issued i m- 1 -l today. 4r "The principal attacks of the soviet ju army were directed on one side along 9 the Polotsk, Mebokle. Molodechnoi If railroad, and on the other eastward. S by the Bcreslna In tho direction of, M Minsk. The objective of the attack,! I according to intercepted orders, was; ', the ocoupation of tho Molodcchno- Minsk railroad for the 25th of May. "In the Ukraine t:ie attacks of the !BudIenny army In the direction of the I Krystynowka-Lipewrecz railroad, last- ing several days, wore repelled and 1 tho enemy compelled to beat a re- treat. At Wolodarkl a charge of one H of our squadrons threw back the on- 8 omy cavalry, inflicting heavy losses. I Influenced by theso attacks, a brigade m of cavalry of the Budienny army came 5 over to us with Its horses. m "In the fighting now going on bc- A tween the Dnleotor and tho Dnieper w , all arms merit praise." MCall On Leasee, i LONDON, June 2. M. Benes, for-eign for-eign minister of Czocho-Slovakla, has $ handed the league of nations a peti- JS? tion asking that a commission bo sent BfW tn t Vi rw rlrVtcrltr o ran in Pnlnnrl to !Sjf make an independent Inquiry regard- ftjf , ing the recently reported disturbances. Bjj The foreign minister, who Is now in ISl London, also has had a conferenco W'Mj? with Earl Curzon, the British sccrc- ifjt French-German Clash. BERLIN, Jilne 1. Isolated Fran co-German clashes continued at Bcu-then, Bcu-then, Silesia, Saturday and Sunday, since which time the security police In co-operation with the French troops have gradually succeeded In quieting the town. The Beuthen correspondent of th1 semi-official Allgcmeine Zcitung blames the trouble on a newly arrived ar-rived French detachment, which he says seema bent on exasperating the population. Tho Oberschlcsischc Lands eitung cites alleged Instances nf French beat-i beat-i ing and ill treating Gorman speaking I passersby, while Polish speaking per sons arc not molested, it says. Sunday evening fighting occurred between German and Polish athletic clubs and several persons were Injured. |