Arizona republican., 1920-03-27
|DENEK|NE WANTS
 'SH|PS TO REMOVE
 SHATTERED ARMY
General Says He Will Stay With Men to End = War In South Russia Over = Volunteer Army Evacue. ting Last Hold
[Republican A. p. Leased wireI

NOVORISSISk. Russia, March 24.-- General Denekine, commander of the anti-bOlShevik forces in south Russia, told the correspondent of the Asso- ciated Press today that he will remain with his troops until the last. He has asked the British to furnish boats to transport 10000 soldiers. Fifty per cent of his supplies will be moved to the Crimea, 25 per cent to Batum and the remainder will be left here. The bolsheviki are reported within 30 miles of Novorossisk.
 Green guards are all around the city. Denikine's troops and supplies already are being moved away as fast as ships are available. The volunteer army has completely collapsed. Civil war in southern Russia seems virtually ended. The battle front is non-existent, 30,000 officers and soldiers having left the fighting lines and gathered here in an endeayor to leave the country. The British have about 2000 troops, which are being evacuated.
 Warships of Great Britain, France and Italy and the United States and Greece are standing by, and when the British are out of the city it will easily fall into the hands of the bolsheviki, or green guards, as the warships are merely standing in the harbor to pro- tect the evaccation. The American Red Cross mission left today for
 
 the Crimea, carrying with it all sup plies.
 Situation ominous
 Novorissisk outwardly is quiet but it is an ominous calm that prevails. Martial law has been declared. It is dangerous to be in the streets after dark. There is sporadic rifle firing throughout the night.
 Food is scarce and money is without value. Four thousand rubles are of fered for a dollar.
 Thousands of refugees are crowding the docks awaiting transporta ton. The American Red Cross evacuated the board the United States torpedo boat destroyers to the Crimea and other points on the Black sea.
 General Denikine has asked the Americans for hospital ships to take away 5000 sick and wounded soldiers. There is much typhus here. Tn addi- ton to moving the sick. the American Red Cross embarked 500 refugees for Theodesia in the United States ship ping board steamer Sangamon.
 The internal situation in Novorissisk may result in the betrayal of the town into bolshevik hands at any minute. There is report in circulation that, volunteer officers have plotted to sef cure their immunity by turning over General Denikine to the bolsheviki.
 Volunteer Army All Gone
 ONSTANTINOPLE. March 25.- General Baron Wrangel, commander of the volunteer army in south Russia, has come across the Black sea from the Novorissisk region and is now on Prinkipo Island in the sea of Marmora. He visited Constantinople before pro- ceeding to Prinkipo. The Russian vol unteer army has virtually disappeared.
 General Denikine, the anti-bolshevizi leader in southern Russia, and his general staff have been at Novorissisk since March 14. The Cossack forces still number about 6000.
 All the foreign missions have evac- mated Ekaterinodar. in Circassia, near the eastern coast of the Black sea. and a short distance from NovorossislS, but apparently there is no organized bol- shevik force within 40 miles of that city, although scattered bands are making trouble by interfering with the communications.