Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1921-06-13
GEN. WRANGEL'S WIFE
APPEALS TO AMERICANS
BY BARONESS WRANGEL

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Editors Note:--Baronesg Wrangel'
wife of General Peter Wransel, ar
rived in Paris few days ago from
Constantinople, where her husband
remains with the tattered remnants
of his refuge army, once the finest
Cossack fighting forces in Russia.
She prepared the following state
ment for the United Press. in an Ct
American people the great problem
of the Russian refugees in south
eastern Europe. Boraness Wrangel
is one of the most talented Russian
nobewomen. Educated in London
and Paris. she speaks and writes
English and French as well as RUS
Paris, (By Mail. 1T is time for
the allied nations, and for the Unit
ed States to face the question square
ly:--- "What is to be done for Rus
STA and the Russian people?"
have faith that the people of
the United States will do this with
sympathy and generous hearts, for
without the help of American re-
lief, in money, goods and splendid
organizing ability, the exiled Rus
slams would most of them, by this
time. have died of want.
To the American Red Cross pri-
marily we owe our very existence,
although money, food and ships were
freely given by organizations in
other countries We are not migrate
full, but we realize that it is to
Americans we must look for con-
tinued help. America has the will
to help us, and she has the great
advantage of being free from for
eign political entanglements.
am sure that the wretched
plight of the Russian exiles, at
least 100000 Of whom had to flee
for their lives, is not known except
to the few Americans with whom
they have come in direct contact.
| have read fantastic tales of people
escaping with enormous wealth in
rubles, diamonds, pearls and sables,
and of how they are living in lux
ury on the sale of these valuables.
The Russian exiles, as matter of
fact, are from all classes, rich and
poor, and most of them escaped with
nothing. Even if some did manage
to carry away few jewels they
had to sacrifice them for little mon
ley. The -Bolshevist Russians,
| the great, unnumbered hordes who
are existing today in dozen coun-
tries of Europe, are almost without
exception, paupers.
I remained with General Wrangel
all through the summer and autumn
| OF 1920, while he was successfully
fighting the Bolshevik, and re-
NAMED in Sevastopol until the de-
| lection of the Poles and the utter
exhaustion of the Volunteer Army
made the evacuation of the Crimea
an absolute necessity. ] stayed I'M
| til the survivors of the army and
the still greater number of civilian
refugees were safe aboard American
destroyers and other ships.
The reason why the Volunteer Ar
my, after a long series of brilliant
victories, was at last forced to give
up Crimea, was simply lack of arms,
Ammunition and other supplies. The
Bolshevik Army, Overwhelming in
numbers as it was, might well have
been kept back indefinitely had they
not been supplied with everything
we lacked. They had the enormous
stock of arms, machine guns and
ARTILLERY, sold by the Americans to
the old Russian army, so that while
we have been and still are depend
ent on American assistance, we were,
all unknown to Americans, beaten
by guns made in the United States.
We left, my husband on one ship
and I on another, to join the I'M
Ispeakably miserable outcasts in Con-
stantinople women and chill
dren. who once had a country Of
(which they were proud and hope
lful, and who now no country wants.