BOLSHEVIK TRIUMPH

Southland Times, Issue 18983, 18 November 1920, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK TRIUMPH

CAPTURE OF SEBASTOPOL, AN ORDERLY EVACUATION. ESCAPE OF WRANGEL. j(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Reuter’s Telegrams.) CONSTANTINOPLE, November 16. The evacuation of Sebastopol was conducted in perfect order. Local Soviets arc in charge. It, is stated that the Bolsheviks’ success Was largely due to the use of poison gas. They admit the loss of 30,000 killed. Wrangel escaped aboard a Russian cruiser filled with soldiers. Three transports carrying 20,000 and a fourth filled with wounded departed for an unknown destination. The Reds are reported to be fifteen miles from Theodosia whence 10,000 troops were evacuated. REFUGEES FROM CRIMEA. STORY OF THE LAST ATTACK. CLOUDS OF POISON GAS. CONSTANTINOPLE, November 15. (Received November 17. 5.5 p.m.) Thousand-- of panic-stricken refugees are arriving from Crimea in all sorts of vessels, large and small, in addition to warships. M any are suffering from wounds and exposure. The hospitals tire overcrowded. The influx Ls causing a fond shortage. The refugees stare that the Reds attacked from the east and north, sending down clouds of poison gas The defenders were were not supplied with masks, and suffered enormous casualties. A panic started among the civilians, and Red prisoners and Bolshevik adherents 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 them. Wrangel also appealed to the Allied warships to shell the advancing Reds, but the officers replied that they could not do this without. Government orders. WRANGEL AT CONSTANTINOPLE. CONSTANTINOPLE. November 16. ’’Received November 17. 7.20 p.m.) w rangcl has arrived. I .ENIN JUBILANT. A WESTERN REVOLUTION NECESSARY. (United Service.) LONDON, November 16. (Received November 18, 12.10 a.m.i Lenin is jubilant. He is reported as declaring that Wrangel'.' defeat was beyond the Bolsheviks’ fondest dreams, bur Sovietdom will nor be safe until there has been at least one revolution in Western Europe. SOVIET TROOPS FOR CHINA. OPERATIONS AGAINST SEMEN OFFS DETACHMENTS. LONDON. November 16. A Moscow wireless message reportes that, Trh’trhr-rin sent a message to the Chinese Foreign Minister stating tn response f o a request from Chinese troops that Soviet troops -will enter China to assist the Chinese against Semenoff’s detachments who entered Chinese Manchuria bur will withdraw aa soon, as th< ir task is accomplished. REPATRIATION OF GERMAN PRISONERS. COPENHAGEN, November 16. Reports from Berlin state that during the last half vear Vi).i 10; t German prisoners have been repatriated from Russia via the Baltic, and s'M'l'il \:a Vladivostok at a cost of l.iiiiO.iHHl.tHHi marks. POLISH GONC F.NTHATTON NEAR TOE border.

A GERMAN PROTEST. BERLIN. N ov,-rubor lii, (Received November I', I'.MU a.m. ■ The Lnk i! Aozeig-T states that- the (lovprnment has received a mntuk-ntial report that the Poles are concentrating great masses of troops on rhe Bendzin-Ezeurachan line, in the nrigh’t'ourh'wvi of Upper Silesia. Th° rii>vprnn:fnr has tb* 7 * AmhasBneior? in Paris. London, and Rome to acquaint the Entente Governments. with :» request for .-peedy consideration of the matter. TRADE WITH RUSSIA. BRITISH AGREEMENT READY LOR SIGNATURE. I. ON DON, November lu. (Received November 17, 7.'JO p.m. l Eu.ssi.l will be sigmaMu ? few tlnys v Rumanian-: British sub;ect,s in tbai. I: ; understood tint the agreement will no; affeet the question of Russia's debt to the Abies.