Warsaw,
Aug.
23rd.*-The
Russian
- Bolshzvik
forces
are
retreating
virtually
along the
whole
line in an effort to
save
the
remnants
of
the
Red
army,
but
they have
been
easily
frustrated
by the
Poles.
On
the
north
there
is
heavy
fighting
in
the
region
of
Mlawa
and
Soldau.
Forced
to
faze
two Polish
ar-
-
mies,
one
advancing
from
oldin
and
the
other
from
Graudenz,
the
Bolshe-
viki are
making
desperate
efforts
to
extricate
their
advanced
guard.,
some
of which
had advanced
as
far
as
Sylau
and
Pionsk.
The Red
losses
in prisoners
in this
region have
amounted
t 5 11,000
in the past
two days.
Washington,
Aug.
23rd.
Poland
has
been
cautioned
by
the
United
States.
(Govt.
not
to
permit
her
armies
in
their
present
counter-offensive
against
the
Russian
Bolsheviki to advance beyond
the
geographical
boundaries
of Poland.
Dublin, Aug.
23rd.—More
than
a hun-
dred
cases
of
destruction
of
property,
assassination
of police, loyalists reprisals
and
similar
incidents
were
reported
in
Ireland during the last
week
end
and tle
lists
continue
to
grow.
Among
the
latest
reports
is
that of a fierce pitched
battle
at
Lissane
County
Cork
between
the
police
and
an
ambush
party.
A
considerable
number
of aln
are
said
to
have
been
wounded
in thf
engagement.
The
officer commandirg
f§nd
last
night
the
customs
officers
at LRantry
wore
burnt,
all records
being de}troyed.
Lucerne,
Switzerland,
hug.
28rd.
Mr.
Lloyd George
and
P
fomier
Giolitti
have
adopted proposals
to
pe
submitted
to
Krance
for Allied action
to secure
to
Poland
the free and
unrestricted
use
of
Danzig
and
its
communications
in
aec-
cordance
with the
Versailles
treaty,
it.
was announced
officiallyhere“today.
The
conference
between
Mr.
Lloyd
George
and
Signor
Giolitti
was
coneluded
this
evening
when
the
Premier
sent
the
following telegram
to M. Millerand:
‘‘ln
finishing our Lucerne conference
we send
ycu
a
cordial
salute
and
look
forward
with
pleasure
to
the
earliest
og¢casion
when
both
of us
can
meet
your
Excel-
lenzy’’.
:
London,
Aug. 24th.—A
large
number
of the Royal Irish Constabulary
at Dublin
informed
the
co
mandant
on
Monday
that
they
were
unwilling to
be used
to
suppress
ofinio i, says
the Dublin
corres-
pondgat
of
the
Central
News.
They
took off their uniforms
and left the depot
in civilian clothes.
London,
Aug.
24th.—Official
despatch
from Warsaw
say the
Poles
have captur-
ed
63,000 prisoners,
200
guns
and
1,000
machine
guns.
:
5
Warsaw,
Aug. 24th.-—The Pohish forces
have ecaptured
Lomza
75
miles,
it
is
reported
in today’s
official communique
issaed
here.
5
London, Aug. 24th.—The
PTimes’,cor-
respondent
at
Warsaw
says
the Bolshe-
viki infantry
have
entirelv
lost
their
heads
especially in the northwest.
Gen-
g,
UROI
X
A VS
eral
Brudenny
and
his
Bolsheviki
fore-
Ps
a e
reported
turning
eastward.
The
news
from
Lemberg
is
good:
Anti
Bolsheviki
movements
are breaking
our
in
many
parts
of Russia,
according
to
statements
by
Bolshevik
prisoners.
A
captured
Soviet Captain
said
the
Minsk
conference
was only intended
as
a
means
of
placating
the
Entente
and
RBritish
labrur and
that there
was
no
intention
to
make
peace
until
Warsaw
was
cap-
tured and Soviet
rule
set
up
in
Poland.
Warsaw,
August
24th.—
The
capture
of Przasnysz,
60 miles nofth of
Warsaw.
and
Mlawa
on
the
Polish
frontier,
75
miles northwest
of the capital, is reported
in
the
Polish
official
statement
issued
last night.
The
buik of the Fourth
Sovi-
et Army
and
the
entire
Third
Cavalry
Corps
bave
been
surrounded
by
the
Poles,
the
statement
says.
Paris,
Aug.
24th. —Premier Millerand,
acting
as
President
of
the
Supreme
Council,
has
telegraphed
Sir
Regirald
Tower inviting him
to assure
te
Poland
complete
liberty inthe importation of war
material
through Danzig
as provided
in
the Versailles
treaty.
London,
Aug.
24th.
-M.
Kameneft,
head of the
Russian
Soviet
Mission here,
1s preparing
to leave England,
according
to the Daily Herald.
‘
Berlin,
Aug.
24th.—The
Governing
Board
of the
Railway
Workers
Union at
Danzig has
voted
to halt alt
war supplies
arriving at that port destined
for Poland,
it will permit
the
transit
only of
food
and sanitary
supplies.
3
Londu,
Aug.
24th.
—Mr.
Balfour
on
behalf of
Mr. Lloyd
George
las:
night
sent
to M. Kameneff,
Russian
Soviet rep-
resentative
here,
a copy of
the
commu-
|
nique,
issued
in Lucerne,
as
a
result
of
the conference
between
Mr. Lloyd George
and Premier Giolitti.
Mr. Balfour pointed
out that according
to the
latest
informa-
tion the Bolshavist
terms
to Poland
fund-
amentally contradict
those of M. Kamen-
|
eff, communicated
to
Great
Britain
re-
cently.
Mr.
Balfcur
asked
if
this
in-
.
formation
was correct and
if so whether
the Bolshevists
intended
to adhere
to the
|
new terms.
An answer by Friday
even-
ing
at the latest
was asked
for by
Mr.
|
Balfour
w~ho cited
the
urzeney
of
the
matter
and
said
that
on the
answer
of
the .6 questions
dependad
rthe
policy
of
|
Great Britain.
i
London, Aug.
24th.—Lord
Stradbroke
has bezn appointed
Governor of Victoria,
succeeding
Sir
A.
Stanley.
A
motion
|
recently
was
made
in the Victorian
Par-
|
liament
favouring
future
appointments
being made by the Siate
itself but it was
defeated.
;i
Barbados,
Aug. 25th. —American-des-
|
troyer ‘‘Cole Na,
185" arrived
1.20 p.
m.
|
from Guantanamo.
I
Barbados,
Aug. 22th. —American
des.
|
troyer
‘‘Cole,No.
155" left
11.25 p.
m.,
|
destination
anknown.
‘
i
NEw
YORK,
Aug.
25th
1920.
;
Flour, Blended Clears St. Lawrence [srand
pr. brl.
sl2 50
Meal,
Kilndried
per
100 tbs
$3.90
New
Season’s
Pork
per bri. $29.00
Heavy Mess
Pork
per bbl. §33.00
Sugar---Crystals
maximum
per
100
lbs
$12.04.
Molasses
Sugar 89°
test,
no
quotation.
Cotton, -Middling Upland,
at
f.iverpool
:
per
lb.
22 57-100 d.
tixchange,
New
York
and
[London,
60
days'
sight
$3.53%
Exchange
New York
and
[ondon,
sight
$3.57%
LONDON.,
Aug. 25th
1920.
Sugar, Demerara
Crystals,
Govt. controll-
ed
and
free
01
contro)
1295.
94.
Sugar-Moscovado
Govt.
co
trolled price,
daty paid
1245.
9d.
'
Moscovado
free
of
Govt.
control
duty
paid
nominal.
\German
Beet 88°/¢
f.o.b.
no-sales
White
Java
sugar
cif United
Kingdom
nominal
110s.
od.
Demerara
Rum,
per gal: nominal.
.
Trinidad
Cocoa,
Good Middling
Red
no-
minal‘per
ewt
85s,
od.
Cottec © Medium
Fine
Sea
I[sland,
at
Liv-
erpool per
|b.
nominal
i
Bank
of
England
rate
of
Discount
per
4
cent.
7.
:
Consols
46%.
Three
per
¢
nt
rentes
in Paris
Fes.
55,40
All Drices
SUth‘(‘f
to correction
e
NP
f
Belgium| reports
the
sugar
output
|
from Octobr,
1919,
to the end
of
April
1920,
‘as
46,357
tons
of
raw
sugar.
-~ The
tnree
years
previous
it
was
73,035
129,232
and
135,301
tons.
The
foreign
'
beets
that
came
into
the country
for
~
tbat
g]eriod
amounted
to
126.207
tons.
The ecohsumption
in
April amounted
to
13,298
tons.
Lowistana
Planter,
.July
L
SIaL
|
South
Africa
seems
sucha long ways
off
that
any
information
on
the sugar
.
industry
to
inhabitants
of the northern
'
hemisphere
is
especiailly
interesting.
.
Thus
the
Natal
Sugar
Association
re-
.
ports
that
the
sugar
industry
employs
-
from
15,000
to 20,000
people
and
that the
~sugar
production
has tripled between
the
~
seasons
1908-09 and
1918-19.
The
Afri-
~cans
feel the war
effects
in
every
way,
~
particularly in building.
A factory
with
~a capacity of 15,000 tons
of
sugar
a year
~
could be erected
before
the
war at
a cost.
-of
215,000
pounds
sterling.
Now
the
~same factory costs
450,000
bounds.
[bid.
-
IGood News!
et
o
PAMGEIS.
SEN-SEN CHEWING GUM
Throat-Kase
and
Breath
Perfume
-
to be
had
at
:
CHRISTIANSTED & FFEDERIK:
CSIED APOTHECARY HALLS,