Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-09-22
Ill EFATE !
AN RED ARMY
STILL UNS0[vED'
General Wrangle and
Troops Accept Small
Jobs to Keep Going.
Leader Hopes to Aid
. When Soviet Regime
Has Been Overthrown.

Athens, Sept, 21.-The ultimate fate
OF General Wrangel's Russian army in
exile, of whom 10000 officers and
/ men still are encamped on the CALI
| podl peninsula, still continues one of
the unsolved puzzles of the near east.
General Wrangel has held together
the best of his officers and men from
among the refugee army which fled
from Russia before the victorious boil
shevlkl. He has hoped that his forces
would be again needed IN Russia to
maintain new government when the
SOVIET regime collapsed"
w But this is a hope deferred and
rangers best fighting men wait in
tne1r tents and huts on Gallipoli,
MAJOR Jean de Roover, chairman Of
the League of Nations commission for
the exchange of populations between
Greece and Bulgaria, has visited the
RUSSIAN camp and brought away a very
favorable impression Of the officers
ana men. He knows something about
the Russian fighting man for he was
formerly the Belgian representative
with WrangePs army when it was the
ouiWark Of the anti-bolshevik strength
IN the Crimea. He says:
In this camp. besides 1.5OO women
ana an Lei children, there are 5000 officers,
luOUO soldiers and 1900 cadets in tho
military schools. These troops have
kept their military organization. Thair
morale is Of the highest and they
voluntarily submit to the most stern
discipline; for IN all their hardships
they are buoyed up by an unquestion-
ing faith in their chief, General
Wrangel land in the greatness Of theirs
mission.
They are encamped under canvas,
or IN old huts that have no doors or
windows. but are always in an ire:
probable state of cleanness.
Fed by France.
They are fed by France. In addi-
ton, General Wrangel is paying them.
from the little money he stil has
about dollar a month.
'Wrangel, who succeeded in gettinr
employment as labor corps in Serbia,
and Bulgaria for nearly all his Cossack
troops, is trying to get Serbia to re-
ceive his Gallipoh army corps. Five
thousand of them are going to be used
by Jugoslavia as a frontierguard.
As for the other regiments, the
government at Belgrade is prepared to
oIIer tnem 1tS noSplCanty II funds arc
put at it's disposal which will cover.
their upkeep for two years. Tho
Russia ambassador at WASHINGTON has
still several tens of millions of dollars.
the remains of funds that were sent
him from Russia before the Bolshevik
coup d etat. to pay for the orders for
war material. Wrangel is making
every effort to get the few million
dollars necessary for the carrying out
Of his scheme raised out Of these funds
and transmitted to the Serbian govern
ment.
May Help Later.
IF he succeeds, what will be the ul-
innate role of this legion? VIII it fight
again as an army? Probably not. The
general opinion in Russian circles is
that Bolshevism must go under in an
internal convulsion of the country, and
hat the tyranny Of Bolshevism win be
succeeded by anarchy. 1t will be then
hat elements Of order, framework Of
and police organisation
will be needed by the new governments
o restore calm for the convocation
# the Constituent Assembly. This il
where the survivors Of the National,
Russian army hope to be Of service to-
heir country