The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-15
Demand for Generals Surrender
Made by Soviet.
Between 10000 and 100000
Made Prisoners by Reds.
DEBACLE NOW IS COMPLETE
Fifteen Thousand Refugees Flee
to COnstantinOple.
British and French in Blockade
of Russ Coast.

Berlin. Nov. 15.-A Moscow wire
less said today the Russian govern
ment had demanded immediate sur
render of General WrangeL leader of
the Crimean forces. Amnesty was
promised wrangeI and his troops.
Army Wiped Out
Moscow, Nov. 15.--Gereral Wran-
gers army in the criniea has been
wiped OUT. the war oetsce announced
today. S'es as.>s'l lsas=-- = =
1t is expected soviet troops now will
win easy VICTORIES over the troops of
General Petlura and Balakovitch in
the Ukraine.
II is also forecast the Crimean vic
tory will expedite an agreement with
the British government for resump-
ton of trade with the soviet govern
ment.
100000 Made Prisoners.
Paris, Nov. 15.-Sebastopol has fall
On, the Russian Bolsheviki having oc-
cupied the city last night, according to
unofficial information received by the
French foreign office.
The foreign office estimated today
the Bolsheviki had captured between
10000 and 100000 Wrangel troops
in their drive on the Crimea.
Foreign office advices said the Boil
shevik losses in killed and wounded
were enormous. The Bolsheviki are
reported to be masters of the whole
Crimean peninsula.
General Wrangel, members of his
staff, and NJ. Martel French. high
commissioner at Sebastopol were taken
on board the French warship Waldeck
Rousseau and are expected to arrive
in Constantinople late tonight or to-
morrow.
Was wild Debaclc
Constantinople, Nov 15.-Sebasto-
pol was the center today of a wild de-
bacle.
Its harbor was filled with water
craft ranging from war vessels to row
boats, all carrying human cargoes
away from the rising red wave. Gen.
wrangel's army was in collapse and
the conquering Bolsh ayik troops swept
southwark upon the city.
The White troops were practically
wiped out in their defense of the mar
row neck of the peninsula, where three
divisions checked twenty-five assaults
by twenty-eight divisions of the enemy.
The soviet army broke thru the stub
born defense finally and spread un-
checked over the areas behind the
line. The soviet losses were said to
NAiNuHS thtu lHE thousands aII6T
troops had been thrown time after
time against the strong defenses.
Used Poison Gas.
Dispatches here said the BoIshevik
leaders admitted loss of 10000 in the
hand to hand fighting at Perekop,
where wave after wave of attackers
were driven back. Poison gas was used,
according to these reports.
Five thousand wounded .WrangeI
men have arrived here. The Bolshe-
wiki gave no quarter, these men said.
Once the entry into the Crimea had
been forced the Red troops engulfed
the small defending army, they said,
ignoring all signs of surrender.
Russian Coast BIoclzaded.
The Russian coast of the Black sea
has been blockaded. A British torpedo
boat has started a patrol to prevent
Bolshevik troops from spreading into
Turkey.
Wrangeps collapse was believed due
to two causes. The Overwhelming z
superiority of the Bolsheviki in mum
bers and allied plotting and corruption
behind the lines. Czarists, scheming
for seizure of the government, were
said to have expended large sums
among the Wrangelites.
Premier Krivochin of WranpePs
government, arrived here today weary
and broken. The premier said Cen
eral Wrangel was still in Sebastonol
but that the city was to have beer
evacuated Sunday night. Red cavalry
was at the outskirts Of the CITY late