The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-11-20
REJOICING WAVE
SWEPT RUSSIA
Soviet Appointed Special Body
to Transport Booty Taken
in Crlmea.
PEACE SEEMS IN SIGHT
Trotzky Personally Directed
Final Phase of Dramatic
Attack on Wrangel
PEACE SEEMS IN SIGHT
(BV LOUISE pRYANTl

l Moscow, Nov. II. by wireless TO Ber.
iin, Nov. 20.--U. N. S.)-So enormous
NaS the booty captured from Gen
Wrangcl In Crlmea TINT the soviet gov.
&rnnlent has appointed special COM
stnlsslcn to supervise its Transportation
embraced every kind Of war matedial
lncluding many French t,ghtinE air
pn Aes, tanks, guns, munitions fot ar
tllery and small arms and unused unl-
forms. The prisoners included soldiers
from thirty different units OF Cen.
Wrnngers army.
A great wave OF rejoicing swept soviet
Russia when news OF the victory was
flashed over the government wireless
system. Real peace appears to be in
sight for the first time since tho soviet
government cnmo into power.
Il The Antired forces under Gen. Balach-
pvitch and Gen. Petlura, which are op-
grating ~. the western part OF white
Russia and ukrenia arc not regarded
these forces can be disposed OF IN n
very short time.
Win prospects OF complete ceaha-
tion OF hostilitIes AL departments OF
the soviet government are now dis
oussing roeonstruction plans.
f Most Dramatic.
Tho storniing OF the defense of north
ern .Crimea by the red army was one
of the most dramatic battles OF mod
Qfn times Russian military men say
4 compares with the battle OF vor-
dun. The powerful defensive works,
which were believed by Gen. Wrangei'a
engineers to be impregnabie, were first
preached with violent artillery Are and
then the troops poured through the
gaps,
Through the gaps. Leon Trot1ly, COM
missar OF war In the soviet government,
personally directed the final phase OF
the attack, Az soon as tho Russo po-
iish armistlce was signed Trotsky left
Tor the Crimean war theater and orr
gnn'zed the advance. The concentration
OF red troops was completed In October
and the hattie opened on Oct. ~, north
of Perekop, the town nj the hottleneclg.
where crimea Joins tho Russian MAIN
land.
The first Russian victory was won
north OF Perekop az enormous costs.
Trotzly sent IN his heat soldiers
shock troops-.-and they justified Trotz-
ky's expectations.
Generalization Revealed.
II is apparent that the damorali-
zution of Wrnngel'a soldiers had been
under way for some time before the
collapse Twenty-four hours after the
fnll OF Simferopol and Sebastopol local
vietsEovernments were administering
all public affairs, They had boen es.
10 conduct their affairs by underground
lsyHtem The frst telegram from tho
CrifnaaA soviet government was rn-
ceived by the Moscow government on
Tuesday night. AZ that time Il was
not known definitely that Gen. wrangel
had escaped 70 Turkey upon ship aud
the message aroused some expectation
horo that WrnnRol might be prisoner.
Red soldiers captured an order Of tho
day signed by Gen. Wrangol saying that.
as the allies were giving him no fur
ther assistance, ho extended permission
TO all his soldiers to surrender them-
selves 10 the reds. Military experts writ
Ing In the local newspaper Pravda. say
that the Importance OF tho victory In
Crimea cannot bo overeHtimated