WRANGEL ROUT
CLAIMED BY REDS
SECOND ARMY SHATTERED
UKRAINIANS STAND FIRM
deceived 10.40 a.m.)
LONDON, Oct. 18
A'Mos< ow wireless message cla'rns that, the IW.C& inflicted a severe defeat on General Wrangel's second try near Nikopol and that the enemy retreated in disorder, the Re.ls securing enormous trophies.
The Reds also claim that General Wrangel's Smolensk and Alexareff infantry regiments were entirely destroyed and that General Baibinoff, Commander of the Kuban Division, was killed.
T;h e Bolshevik armies >also made continuous fierce attacks' on the Ukrainian fronts. Sanguinary fight.ng is in progress at the Bug bridgeheads, !>ut thus far the Ukrainians 'have rtoulsod the Reds.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 19 October 1920, Page 5
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