RUSSIAN SITUATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14259, 16 November 1920, Page 5

RUSSIAN SITUATION.

WRANGEL’S RETREAT. > A SHATTERED ARMY. Press Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Monday. The capture of Scbastapol 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. # General Wrangel is personally commanding the remnants of his shattered army,, which has resolved to make the supreme sacrifice to enable the women and children to escape the Red terror. M, Krivochin, the Premier, made a heart-rending appeal for help fox the fugitives, who have Sost all they have in the world, and are now exiled. HUGE CAPTURE BY REISS. PARIS; Monday. It is estimated that 150;0ti0 of General Wrangell men have been captured. FRANCE STAGGERED. , (United Service.) LONDON,. Monday. The French .Press is anxious iu regard to the Wrangel debacle, which jV likely to enormously enhance the 801-’ shevists’ prestige in Mussulman countries.. One writer states that KemaUe action now assumeg outstanding importance, constituting a- new danger to Europe. '"• |&s j; The Daily Express says that French military circles are staggered. They thought that the army was sound and that Perekop’s defences were capable of requlsing indefinite onslaughts, and fear an immediate repercussion on the Polish front. The Reds attacking Wrangel number--170,000 and aro personally commanded by Trotsky. BLOCKADE OF RUSSIAN COAST DECLARED. (Reuter’s Telegrams.) LONDON, Monday. It is reported from Constantinople that a blockade of the Russian coast in the Black Sea has been declared... British torpedoers are patrolling with the object of preventing the Bolsheviks communicating with the Turkish coastANOTHER CABLE CANARD. (Received Tuesday, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, Monday The assertion that a British warship has gone to the Black Sea to blockade the Crimea is denied. The warships will remain in .neutral waters, but will be ready to assist refugees. , • A protest is made by British subjects that there is evidence that the Turkish Nationalists and the Bolsheviks aro inleague. STRICT NEUTRALITY. (Received Tuesday, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, Monday. The Admiralty states that the British naval forces in the Black Sea have been ordered to observe strict neutrality, and carry out only the normal functions of police work.