Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-03
RUSS GENERAL
CURED BY YANK
: HOSPITAL MEN
White Guards Leader Grateful
for His Rescue From the
Typhoid Fever.
TAKES 100000 CAPTIVE

EKATERINODAR, South Russia, Feb.
! 2-Baron Wrangel, the new commander
in-chief of the Denikin army, owes his
life to the skill of American doctors at
tached to the Red Cross hospital here.
The story of his illness and recovery
has been published here for the first
time in connection with the announce
ment of his promotion to the command
of all the South Russian volunteer ar
mics.
1t was six months ago that Gen.
Wrangel was struck down by typhoid
fever. He had just established his po
sition as Denikin's ablest general by
capturing 100000 prisoners in a few
months The whole staff of the volun-
eer army was vitality interested in his
#ebtaining the best possible medical at
Tendance. At Gen. Wrangers own re
8quest he was brought to Ekaterinodar,
awhere the American Red Cross had es-
tablished a large hospital. His case
proved a very stubborn one and for a
time it was feared that his life could not
be saved. But after a FIVE weeks battle
! he passed the crisis and was soon on the
q way to convalescence.
& APPOINTMENT MEETS
\ GENERAL APPROVAL.
Baron Wrangel's appointment as com
mander-in- chief of the southern volun-
teer army in place of Gen. Denikin, who
BIS organizing his civil government, has
met with universal approval, for Baron
&Wrangel Is a popular hero His career
lis typical of the meteoric changes which
Ahave marked the advancement of so many
notable men in Russia during recent
y times.
Starting life as 4 mining engineer
Wrangel followed that profession until
NH ho bn Cy1a ri
regiment, as second lieutenant. The fol-
4 lowing year he was made civil attache
. to the governor of Irkutsk. In 1905
during the japanese war. he re-entered
\ the army, served with distinction, and
issued from the struggle with a cap
Mains brevet. In the revolution of 1907
ne fought against the Let's. Tt was
hen that he definitely decided to give
8 4p his former calling and follow the
Profession of arms.
After studying at the military academy,
SeSpecializing in horsemanishp and cav
airy manoeuvres, Baron Wrangel rejoined
his old regiment of the Horse Guards,
and was given command of a battalion
1t was this battalion he led when the
Russian army advanced into east Prussia
in 1914. The following year the capture
of two German guns and two platoons
! of the enemy's cavalry earned Wrangel
the coveted distinction of the Cross of
4 Saint George
& FL.EES TO SAFETY
s. TO CRTNEA WITH WIFE.
Further distinctions soon followed In
1918, the young cavalry officer was at
g tached as adjutant to the imperial court.
The following year Wrangel was com
4 handing a Cossack regiment with the
4 rank of colonel and was entrusted with
& cavalry corps by the Kerensky regime.
Then came the bolshevist revolution
4 and Baron Wrangel and his wife had
to fly for safety to the Crimea How
ever, they were captured at Odessa ami
n imprisoned on a destroyer in the Black
z sea. Sentence Of death was passed on
u Wrangel and it was only the heroic ex-
4 ertions of his wife, who circulated ne.
Y~&tions among the peasants and inter-
coded with the bolshevists, which saved
his life
subsequently the Wrangels escaped 70
the southern Caucasus, where they had
devoted friends
When the volunteer army was formed
Wrangel was given command of the eau
casian cavalry division, with which he
liberated the northern part of the coun-
try from bolshevist rule last year, push
ing his advance as far as Tsaritsin,
which fell in July,