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Show KIEV EVACUATION BEGUN BY POLES BOLSHEVIKI FORCES ARE APPARENTLY APPAR-ENTLY SUCCESSFUL IN FIGHT FOR TOWN. Bridges Being Destroyed and Buildings Build-ings Blown Up by Retreating Army, Who Hope to Form New Line of Defense. Warsaw. The evacuation of Kiev has been completed, the Poles withdrawing with-drawing to the region of Zhitomir. The American Red Cross workers, according ac-cording to latest accounts, had made preparations to evacuate Kiev with the armies. -News of the evacuation of Kiev reached Warsaw Saturday night which was the first report from Kiev in several sev-eral days. Just prior to the cutting off of communication by the Bolshe-viki, Bolshe-viki, General Rydzmigly, the commander comman-der at Kiev, sent a dispatch that he would make a stand unless otherwise ordered. With difficulty the Poles got through a personal order from General rilsudski, the commander in chief, to the Kiev commander to evacuate immediately. im-mediately. General Budenny, the Russian commander com-mander who fought against Denikine, is bringing up reinforcements, the dispatch dis-patch says, but the military authorities authori-ties assert that the fight for Kiev is not yet ended by any means. The Polish forces carrying out orders or-ders to retreat to a new line of defense de-fense in the Ukrine, have commenced the evacuation of Kiev, having previously pre-viously destroyed the bridges over the Dnelper, according to an official statement state-ment issued Sunday. The realignment is proceeding in perfect order, the statement says. Before evacuating Kiev, according to the latest Bolshevik communique, the Poles blew up the Vladmir cathedral, ca-thedral, the railway stations, the electric elec-tric power station and the aqueduct. Destruction of the latter, the communique commun-ique said, doomed 'the population to the horrors of epidemics. |