Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-08-15
United States Is Making An
Informal Inquiry Into the
Character and Policies Of
Anti BOISheyik Leader,
ONE REPORT OF HIS
CAREER Is RECEIVED
Was Educated To Be a Min
ng Engineer; Joined Army
In 1901; Has An EnviabIe
Record As Fighter.

Washington. Aug. IA (by the AS
sociated Press. An informal in
quiry into the character and poll.
southern Russia, General Wrangel
has been begun by government Of
fiCials.
No immediate anticipation OF
recognition by the United States
is involved, officials said, but
should the inquiry develop salts
faCtorily il is though possible thai
the elements clustered about
Wrangel may afford a road to the
creation of conditions in Russia
permitting her re-acceptance
among nations.
one report on the generals ca
reer has been received. written by
a neutral observer attached to his
staff.
The general, but thirty nine
years old, according to the report
enlisted in the Russian army In
1901 as 4 private after having been
educated as II mining engineer.
Though h.S ancestors are said Ia
have come from Germany his
stock is of Baltic province deriva-
ton.
Leaving the army in 1902 after
promotion to a lieutenanCY, Wran-
gel re-enlisted on the outbreak OF
the Russo-Japanese war and was
twice promoted. In the European
war he distinguished himself on
August 10, 1914. taking German
battery, for which he was decorat
ed with the Cross Of st. George.
Promoted to Colonel,
Promoted to the rank of colonel
he was appointed an aide to the
czar ard later became commander
of the first Transbaikal cOssack
regiment with which in July. 1916,
he captured a battalion and sew
eral maChiSa suns. He was pro-
n oted to a major general.
Following the first days OF the
evolution, when the Russian Of
fcnsive in Ga iCia was preceded by
a disordcrlv retreat, Wrangel Is
said to have prevented n great mill
tary disaster He continued with
the army until disorders of the
revolution had destroyed its disci-
pline.
General Wrangel then retired ia
the Crimea. Arrested by the boil
shevilii, hr was saved from eXccu-
ton by his wife. In the summer OF
1918 with the growth Of the vol
unteer anti-bolshevilI army he was
given command of brigade under
General Erdeli. Succeeding to the
command as the result of the i'll
ness of his chief, Wrangel with
other volunteers routed the bolshe'
Wiki and liberated the Kuban, later
entered Stavropol and attained, III
February, 1919, the liberation of al
of north Caucasus and the TereK
state. He was promoted to lieu
tenant general and placed in com
maud of the Caucasian army.
Stricken With Typhus Fever.
Stricken with typhus fever. it was
not until April /, when the Volun-
teer army had suffered reVerses
that he could resume command and
because of the necessity of reform
ing the scattered elements OF the
forces of General Denikine he was
designated military adviser to Gen
eral Shilling.
With the evacuation OF Odessa
and the reduction of Shilling
responsibilities, Wrangel proceeded
to Sebastapol. where he was IN
formed by the British admiral there
that on account of previous diff
culties with General Denikine, that
officer requested that he leave
Russia.
He retired to Novorrosisk, where
he prepared evacuation of the
wounded and then left for the
Crimea.
Nervousness of the troops the
report declared, resulting from the
news of his retirement, forced him
to leave Russia, but on April 4,
1920, public opinion caused Cen
eral Denikine, then head of the
volunteer army, to resign and a
council of Russian generals 10
elect Wrangel."
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