INTERNAL RUSSIA

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1920, Page 3

INTERNAL RUSSIA

[LONDON TIMES SERVICE —COPfRIGHTj WRANGEL’S CLAIMS. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.in.) LONDON, November 10/ Wrangel in a communique, claims that his forces after five days attacks by overwhelming Red 1 forces, including twenty-five thousand cavalry had successfully retired behind a forti‘fied position at Swash and Perikop. He explains that after the Polish peace, the Bolsheviks concentrated one hundred thousand men, including eleven thousand of Budenny’s cavalry, with a v'cvv of cutting off the retreat to Crimea. Tlie enemy’s cavalry with Lettish and other infantry, numbering ten thousand sabres and ten thousand bayonets, attacked from Haklofka eastward and southeastward concentrating six thousand cavalry against Salkowo cavairy. . They broke through, But shock troops I were brought up and pinned them against Swash, resulting in the capture of two Lettish regiments. Don Cossacks captured two regijnents. Our ’ troops destroyed most of Budeny’s c.'v- ! airy which broke through.