The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-16
Fired by Success in Crimea,
SSOviet in New Drive.
General Wrangel Was One Of
Last to Leave SebastopOl.
HARB0R JAMMED WITH SHIPS
Only Third of Those Who
Wanted to Flee Taken.
Most of Stores, Including Red
Cross Supplies, Saved.

Paris, Nov. 16.-Tfe soviet army is
in complete possession of the Cri-
mean peninsula. the French foreign
office reported today.
The Bolsheviki have counted 10000
prisoners and the total captured prob
ably is far greater, the dispatch said.
Moscow Nov. 1s (by wirelcss).-
Fired by the Crimean victory, soviet
troops have attacked Ukrainian forces
with great success.
Near Mozir, government troops en-
gagged superior forces and occupied
Kalingovitchy, capturing many pris-
oners and booty.
Three Petluran divisions were de-
feated when after an energetic ad-
vance soviet forces occupied a series
of positions sixteen miles northeast OF
Derazhnya and ten miles east OF
Novoushitsa.
In the Dzhanskoisk region an ar
mored train was captured with a num-
Der of machine guns and cannon.
Wrangci Last to Leave.
Constantinople. Nov. 15.--Generai
are reported to have fled from Sebas-
topol. The baron was one of the last
to leave Sebastopol when soviet troops
approached its outer defenses.
The evacuation of Sebastopol by the
civilian population was marked ~
complete decentralization. Quays were
piled high with personal belongings
which had to be discarded when
refugees boarded ships. Only one
third of those desiring transportation
could be carried away by the available
shipping Other Crimean ports al
| ready-in the hands of the BoishwvSAx
sui uffered like congestion.
| In Constantinople many rescue ships
ride at anchor unable to land refugees
because of lack of accommodations i'm
the, city. The last hours of Wrangers
occupation of Sebastopol were filled
with confusion.
| Most Stores Were Saved.
Wrangers headquarters were re-
moved to the quay where he directed
the final attempts at defense. The
sounds of battle were heard distinctly
and the civilian population was in an
uproar. Wounded struggled back from
| the front seeking aid and demanding
| transportation to safety.
The city assumed more of a be-
leaguered aspect when fires broke out
1
spires and towers and obscured the
masts of vessels in the .harbor. Among
supplies were stores of the American
! Red Cross. Commercial warehouses
were threatened but most of the stores
| were saved.
| The harbor was Jammed with war
and other craft. Fastening in for
human cargoes to be transported 70
the Black sea islands or to the Turkish
coast.
| American Warships Helped.
French and American warships
joined in the work, the Americans
operating chiefly from Yalta, on the
eastern shore of the peninsula. The
lTheodosia and Yalta conditions were
| much the same as in Sebastopol Red
troops were in fun possession OF those
two cities
Portions of the wrangel army re-
nained in the outer defense OF Sebag-
topol. endeavoring to hold back the
invaders until evacuation OF the citv
should be complete
i Chief On Russ Cruiser.
London, Nov. 16. General Baron
| Wrangel. head Of the South Russian
/ government. whose army has been vir-
tually wiped out by the Bolshevikf Of
fensive in Crimea, Iert sebastopoi ON
a Russian cruiser filled with soldiers
SAYS Constantinop1e dispatch TO the
| Exchange Telegraph. The cruiser
was accompanied by three transports
carrying 10000 troops and another
carrying wounded men, the fleet sail
ing for an unknown port
Russian soviet forces had not reach
ed Sebastopol before the. city was
evacuated, II is said. The limited
states destroyers Humphreys, whip
pie and Edwards arrived at Constarl rls
| tinople with refugees yesterday
Oppose Trade With Reds.
Representatives of the Russian trade
delegation in London, headed by
Leouid Krassin, we're in conferences
yesterday with the cabinet discussing
the prelimina ries for the possible re-
| sumption of trade with soviet Russia
Some progress was made. Premier
Lloyd George is reported to favor re-
sumption but several Of the prominent
cabinet members are opposing IL.
French Are Pessfmistic.
Paris. Nov. 16.-The defeat Of Gem
eral Wrangel. whose South Russian
government had been recognized by
France. does not mean that France il
ready to consider recognition of the
Russian soviet government, IT was aid
at the foreign office today.
The French government is pessimis-
tic regarding any further military
| movements in Russia at present. II
was indicated. not seeing where any
basis can be found for reorkanizatiou
OF the fruitless effort against the Mos
cow government made by General
Wrangel from the crimea.
Wheat Export Ban Lifted
Galveston. Tex. Nov 1s.-Embargo