FLIGHT FROM THE CRIMEA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17631, 18 November 1920, Page 7

FLIGHT FROM THE CRIMEA.

WE ANGEL AMONG REFUGEES

ARRIVAL IN CONSTANTINOPLE

REDS USE POISON GAS.

By Telegraph Press Association—Copyright. (Received 9.30 p.m.) A ' and N.Z. LONDON. Not. 16. <>eneral Wrangel has reached Constantinople. He escaped from the Crimea aboard a Russian warship filled with soldiers.

Thousands of panic-stricken refugees are arriving at Constantinople from the Crimea in all sorts of vessels, large and small, m addition to warships. Many are suffering from wounds and exposure. The hospitals in Constantinople are overcrowded, and the influx is causing a shortage of food.

Refugees state that the " Reds " attacked Sebastopol from the east and north sending clouds of poison gas against the efenders, who were not supplied with masks, and suffered enormous casualties. A panic started among the civilians, and » Ked prisoners and Bolshevik adherents fomented a revolution. General roleH g t !Tf a ; Small g, '° Up ° officers proposed to defend the ground to the death, a.though a French cruiser offered to rescue them. General Wrangel also appealed to allied warships to shell the adlr T ' C ! n f u IRe tr °° pS ' but the oncers refrnm th Y COuld not with °ut orders irom their governments.

remnants OF an ARMY.

30,000 TROOPS EVACUATED. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Nov. 16. 'h A ™ essa 1 °™ Constantinople states yet three transports, carrying 20,000 dierfl h a , f ° Urt , h fil]ed with wounded sol151™®, % d ,p'' re ported to be within of the r.'im rheo< 081a > 011 the south coast tan^,c»auY* he " <,e 10m h «°

LENIN'S JUBILATION.

"BEYOND WILDEST DREAMS."

(Received 1.30 a.m.)

United Service. LONDON, Nov. 16. Lenin is jubilant, He ie reported as declaring that General Wrangel's defeat was beyond the fondest dreams of the Bolsheviks, but Sovietdom will not be sate until there has been at least one revolution in Western Europe.