WRANGEL'S GREAT RECOVERY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3626, 12 November 1920, Page 5

WRANGEL'S GREAT RECOVERY.

RETIREMENT TO FORTIFIED LTNEV BUDENY'S CAVALRY DEFEATED. Received 9 a.m. LONDON, Nov 11. General Wrangel, in a communique, claims that"his forces after five days' attacks by overwhelming Red forces, including 25,000 cavalry, successfully retired behind a fortified position at Sivash. Regarding .he explains that, after, the Polish peace the Bolsheviks concentrated one hundred thousand men, including eleven thousand of Budeny.'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 Kakhofka eastward and south-eastward, concentrate ing six thousand cavalry against Salkovo. The cavalry broke through, but shock troops were -brought up and pinned, them against Sivash, resulting in the. capture" of two Lettish regiments. : . .. The Dpn Cossacks captured two regiments. Our troops destroyed most of Budeny's cavalry, which had broken through.