HOW SOVIETS WON.
POISON GAS USED. WRANGEL'S FORCES PANICKED. LONDON, November 10. News from Constantinople is to the effect that the refugee soldiers from WrangeFs late army who are coming' there from the Crimea, state the Soviet forces attacked the anti-Bolshe-vik army on two sides. The Beds attacked from the Hast 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, although a French cruiser offered to rescue Wrangel. There also was an appeal made to the Allied warships in the Black to shell tfre advancing Eeds, but the cifi- - cers replied that they could not do this without Government orders.
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Grey River Argus, 18 November 1920, Page 3
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