Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-11-17
NEW OFFENSIVE
AGAINST REDS PLANS
British, French and Belgian
Interests Reported Be-
hind Scheme
CAUCASUS ROUTE
! Gen. Townsend Suggested as Leader
of Anti Soviet Crusade-Soueht
Two L. 5. Officers.


I.omAo:. Nov. l7.-Gencral Barren
Wlan-c!! the an:i-Bo!sheviki leader
N South Russia, has arrived in Con-.
stanl ;ncp!c on the Russian Cruiser
korailofr, says a dispatch TO the En-
charge Telegraph from CONSTANT
'noplc.
!, Paris. Ncv. l7.-There is not the
:, '@E.s. r:!;cation Is yet that official
France vi. cha"sc is stand on the
Rus m problem rs Il rcSul: of tie
liSa$,lr to Gr3cral Wrangcl. although
even The newspapers which have
war!n.y supported the Millerand pol
I :"y show symptoms of profound char-
/ m ri the sudden collapse Of the Ger
man expedition.
| Tat General Wrangel's defeat IS
cc.ai& Il here rather in the light Of
one ci' u series Of episodes in the
i coun:cr-rovclu;iora war, and that
| futGrc exploits are still expected to
v;a'i he ter fruit, If the lessons Of
! ro71."r campa :gnS are kept in mind.
i rca 'zcd frGm the-fact that az the
moment when, the Red cavalry were
sma:h'c ;he.r way through Wrar-
! rcl's l2S- iGfCnSc on the Perekop see
/ Sa-. another scheme was heirg prcz
mciei II Paris whereby Russia was
! 70 lic liberated from the incubus Of
<ovie.ism
Ta&t Gcrcral Towrshend. Of kuk-
/ ,l-Am"ra fame. whcm General Wran-
! r., yctr,,'t5y a'Q"G I" come 70 the
| Cr:m"a % lak" command. was meant
% aSs"nla charge Of the new cam
nai2n i rr"hab!c, according to in
! formation on,aincd.
W;ih he base this time upon Erze-
/ ~um. ~ Turkish Armenia. and backed
" m im2crtar: group Of French, Be!
! .;an arI British ccal and non in
.g:cs..s. tn" proposed crusade was to
tak" the Caucasus route. traversicS
Turkish arI Russian Armenia. Aver
h?;ian, Gcargia and kuhan anil Don
''ossa,E territories to reach AT last
hc coveted FL Dcra,,o Of the Danetz
oa in. II Southern Russia.
Among the advantages this march
1rro$- tn" Caucasus mountains north
ward "auli possess over Dcnekine's
md Wrqr~ci's campaigns. would he:
l':r.t. .hc possibility of conc:iatirG
! inc ClucaS'rs population with the
Russian liberation" movcmcrt by
srartrr each community q generous
f.! measure Of ;rirprndrnce instead Of
hav:r,r 70 fight them simultaneously
with the pr:ncipa! enemy at Moscow
and. Sccori, the possession of the
| Armenian cct:on crops. the kuban
rra:n an! the Pau oil fields. the las
,ri;a he hcpc cf running an oil pipe
inc 10 natoum.
W.th The rood will Of these people
assured by this policy Of conc:liatlon
/ 1ad win Tie raw materials OF the
Eaku md DonrtZ provinces aEi tub-
IN what and Armenian cotton st
! th2i" d;Sno<a! for cXncr; and eX"
.harr" f." Uniforms and munitions.
.hs oryar zcl.> Of the rev scheme, II
is learned. hoped t" be m bt''ter
position than any previous an1-bol-
.hcv;k .cadcr> to march on Moscow.
This, especially. because they pan
ned !" confinc their rou.c norThwarc
% the strip between the Don Volra,
'hesc rivers protecting respectively
ne lrf. ar! r:rht wir%S Of the eN-
petition.
That this secret Of proposed mii'-
sry cxpa;t;cn By way Of Turkish
lrmeuia is cmcrrirg TO the light o'
lay. 4. due principally 70 the c'rcurn-
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