The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-16
WRANCEL FLEES
SEBASTOPOL ON
RUSSIAN SHIP
Defeated General and
TO- 600 Troops Evacuate
Captured City.


Press.)-General Baron Wrangel,
head of the south Russian govern
ment, whose army has been virtual
ly wiped out by the soviet offensive,
in Crimea, left Sebastopol on a Rus
sian cruiser, filled with soldiers.
says a Constantinople dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph company.
The cruiser was accompanied by
three transports carrying 10000
troops and another carrying wound
ed men, the feet sailing for an un-
known port.
Russian soviet forces had not
reached Sebastopol before the city
was evacuated, it is said. The Unit
ed States destroyers Humphrey,
Whipple and Edwards arrived at
Constantinople with .efugees yes
terday.
"Reds" Unrecognized.
Paris, Nov. 16. - (Associated
Press THE defeat of General
Wrangel, whose South Russian gov
ernment had been recognized by
France is ready to consider recog-
milton Of the Russian soviet govern
ment it was said at the foreign Of
flee today.
CITY Demoralized.
Constantinople, Nov. 16.-(United
Press)-The evacuation of Sebasto-
pol by the civilian population was
marked by complete decentralization
Quays were piled high with personal
belongings which had to be discard
ed when refugees boarded ships.
Only one-third those desiring trans
port. ion could be carried away by
the available shipping.
Other Crimean ports already in
the hands of the bolsheviki suffered
like congestion.
In Constantinople many rescue
ships rode at anchor unable to land
refugees because of lack of accom-
modations in the city.
The last hours of Wrangel's oc-
cupation of Sebastopol were filled
| with confusion.
Wrangels headquarters wer = re-
moved to the quay, where he di-
rected the final attempts at defense.
Sounds of battle were heard dis
T, tinctly and the civilian population
was in an uproar. Wounded strag-
! gled back from the front seeking
, aid and demanding transportation
to safety.
| The city assumed more of a be-
! leaguered aspect when fires broke
out and dense smoke fioated over
the 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 we're saved.
The harbor was jammed with war
and other craft, Fastening in for
human cargo to be transported to
Black Sea islands or to the Turkish
coast.
L. s. Ships Help.
French and American warships
Joined in the work, the Americans
operating chiefly from Yalta. on the
eastern shore of the peninsula. The
Theodosia and Yalta conditions
were much the same as in Sebas'
topol. Red troops were in full pos.
session OF those two cities.
| Portions Of the Wrangel army re-
NAMED in the outer defenses of Sc
bastopol in order to hold back thu
invaders until evacuation Of the cit.
should be complete.
Il Attack Ukrainians.
Moscow. Nov. 16.-tBy Wireless
to the United ss.l--Fired by tn,
Crimean victory. soviet troops hav,
attacked Ukrainian forces will
great success.
Near Mosier government troop
engaged superior forces and occu
pied kalinkovitchy. capturing man
prisoners and booty.
Three Petluran divisions were de
feated when after an energetic ad
vance soviet forces occupied
series or points 16 miles northeas
of Derazhuyna and 10 miles east G
Noyoushitsa.
Ii In the Dzhanskoisk region a
armored train was captured with
number Of machine guns and can
| non.
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