WRANGEL’S BIG COLLAPSE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3629, 16 November 1920, Page 5

WRANGEL’S BIG COLLAPSE.

SEBASTOPOL THREATENED. PANIC AND RIOTING GENERAL. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 15. The capture of Sebastopol is only a matter of hours. The Red cavalry |is before Simferopol, where there is indescribable confusion. The inhabitants are panic-stricken and looting is general. Wrangel is personally commanding the remnants of his shattered army, Vfhichhas resolved to make a supreme sacrifice to enable the women and children to escape the Red terror. - ■ > Krivochin, the Premier, made a heart-rending appeal for help for fugitives, who have lost all they have in the world and are now exiled.

150,000 OF WRANGEL’S ARMY v CAPTURED. PARIS, Nov. 16. It is estimated that 150000 of Wrangel’s men have been captured. EFFECT ON MUSSULMAN COUNTRIES. LONDON, Nov. 15. The French press is anxious in regard to the Wrangel debacle, which is likely to enormously enhance the Bolshevists’ prestige in Mussulman countries. One "writer states: Kernaction now assumes outstanding importance, constituting a new danger to Europe. % FRENCH MILITARY CIRCLES * STAGGERED. , LONDON, Nov. 15. Thp Daily Express says; French military circles are staggered. They thought the army sound and that Perekop’s defences were, capable of •repulsing indefinite onslaughts. They fe£r an' immediatef reperdussjon on ■the Polish front. The Reds attacking Wrangel number 170,000 personally commanded by Trotsky.

BRITISH BLOCKADING RUSSIAN COAST OP BLACK SEA. LONDON, Nov. 15. It is reported from Constantinople' that a blockade of the Russian coast of the Black Sea has been declared, British torpedoes are patrolling with thfe object of preventing the Bolsheviks communicating with the Turkish coast. .

A REPORT DENIED. Received 12.10 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 15. The assertion that British warships have gone to the Black Sea to blockade the Crimea is denied. They remain neutral, but are ready to assist refugees. A protest has been made by British subjects that there is evidence that Turkish Nationalists and Bolsheviks, in league -with the British warships, are preventing 'anti-Bolshe-vists from sending munitions to Asia Minor. "W?