WRANGEL'S RETREAT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 42, 13 November 1920, Page 9

WRANGEL'S RETREAT

;"■"■.; _ - REDS' ATTEMPTS TO CUT IT FAIL '/ ■' —- ■ FORTIFIED. POSITION HELD ■ Br Teleompli-Preis A.Bsocifttton~CoDyriffh' ■ London,' November 10. Wrangel. in ; a communique, claims that his forces after five days' attacks bv overwhelming.- Red forces, including twentv-fivo thousand oavalry, successfully ■ retired behind a fortified position on the - Sivnsh at Perekop. Wrangel explains that. after tho Polish peace the 801. . sheviks. concentrated- a hundred thousand - • men. including .eleven thousand of Budiennv's- cavalry, with a view' to cutting off.- his ■ retreat .to the Crimea; The enemy's cavalry, with.'Lettish .and other . infantry numbering .ten, thousand sabres and: ten thousand bayonets, ' attacked ■.from Kakhofkn onstwnrd and south-east-ward. concentrating six. thousand cavalry aeairist Salkowo. ... .The cavalry broke ' • through, but shock troops .were brought • up and ©inned them against the Sivnsh, the move resulting in the capture of two Lettish regiments. The Don Cossacks captured two regiments. Wrangel's troops destroyed most of Budienhy's cavalrv which broke through.—Reuter.

THE VILNA PROBLEM

POLISH GOVERNMENT'S SUGGES-

TION., (Rec. November 13, 0.30 a.m.) London, November 11.. Advices from Warsaw state that the Polish Government, as a means ofc settling 'the Vilna problem, suggests, that the'League-of Nations call of delegates from the communes in the affected toea.—'United Service.