RUSSIAN MIX-UP

Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP

(United Service Telegrams). ANTI-BOLSHEVIK' FLIGHT. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 15. Thousands of panic-stricken refugees are now arriving here from the Crimea in all sorts of vessels, large aud small in addition to Allied warships. Alany are evidently soldiers, suffering as they are from wounds and exposure. Tlie hospitals are overcrowded. The influx is causing a food shortage. HOAV SOVIETS WON. LONDON, November 16. News from Constantinople is to, the effect that the refugee soldiers from Wrangel’s late army who are coming there from the Crimea', state the Sovit forces attacked the anti-Bolslievik army on two sides. The Reds attacked from the East and the north. They were sending down clouds of poison gas. The defenders were not supplied with'masks. They suffered enormous casualties. A panic started among civilians. They say the !Red prisoners and the Bolshevik adherents in South Russia fomented a revolution. • " Wrangel and a small group of officers proposed to defend the ground to the death, altjhmijgh a French o’ruiser , ofterfd to rescue Wrangel. I There also was an appeal made to the Allied warships in the Black Sea to shell the advancing Beds, but tlie j officers replied that they could not do this withoijt Government orders. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 16. Wrangel has arrived. LENIN JUBILANT. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 16. Lenin is jubilant. He is reported as declaring that Wrangel’s defeat was • beyond the Bolsheviks fondest dreams, j but Sovietdom will not he safe until! there has been at least one revolution . in AVestern Europe. ANOTHER DEFEAT. _ ; (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) PEKING, Nov. 16. An official report from Harbin states that Semenoff’s anti-Bolshevik forces in Siberia were driven across tho Man- ; ohurian border at Manchuli. The Japanese Commissioner has , warned the Bolsheviks not to follow < the routed army. Tlie Japanese are i rushing troops to Manehulia to enforce the warning. MAKING A CLAIM. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) 1 COPENHAGEN, Nov. 10. The Soviet newspapers claim that : the Reds have annihilated three of General Petloura’s divisions. 1