WRANGEL'S RETREAT
' ' : ' - « ' ■ OVERWHELMING BOLSHEVIK ■ ... STRENGTH. Constantinople, November 18. A captain in tlio Coldstream Guards, who became a lieutenant-colonel ill WrnngelV army, tells a terrible etory of .the. retreat. His corps was in tho thick of tho final fighting, and lost 75 per eont. of its effectives in tho con-, etant rearguard actions. The Bolsheviks' success was due tb the overwhelming strength of their cavalry, which b'.'oke through the lines. The retreat was conducted in heavy snowfalls and bitter frost, Mirough which Wrangel's forces struggled without blankeis 1 aud_ practically without food. It was pitiful to see the 'dying soldier,? leaning on their rifles waiting for the snow to swallow thorn. Dead horses everywhere marked the roitreat—Router. RED FORCES OCCUPY KERTCH. London, November 18. A Moscow wireless report states that the Bolshevik cavalry occupied Kertch unresisted,'and. took enormous booty ,-r-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 48, 20 November 1920, Page 9
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141WRANGEL'S RETREAT Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 48, 20 November 1920, Page 9
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