Evening star., 1923-11-22
By THE MARa USE DE FoSTENoY.

Among those arriving in New York
tomorrow on board the Berengaria Is
the Baroness Peter Wrangel daugh-
ter of one of the former big land
owners of the Ukraine. of the name
of Inanenko, and the wife and de-
voted and resourceful comrade Of
Gen. Baron Peter Wrangel. the COM
mander of the. so o-called White army
Of Russia. which offered such a stub
born resistance against the bolshe-
Wiki as long as it could still obtain
ammunition and military supplies
from England, France and from the
other entente powers. 1t was finally
compelled to abandon. the struggle
when these foreign governments de-
cided to abstain from any further in
reference IN the internal affairs of
what had been the land of the czars,
and then Gen. Wrangel withdrew his
troops and their belongings, first to
Constantinople. then held by the
allies. and Immediately set TO work
to provide for their immediate well
fare and for their future. Some were
taken charge of by the English gov
ernment in Egypt. Others by the
rulers and governments of Serbia
and Rumania. others again by the
Polish government. still others by
France, for use as soldier colonists
in Morocco and Algeria.
The most remarkable thing was
the personal attachment of this So
called White army to Gen. Wrangel
and his own continuous and unr emit
ting solicitude in behalf of their ma
terial welfare. Indeed, there is no
doubt that, II he were once more to
raise his flag to champion the cause
of law and order, of religion and of
civilization on western lines in Rus
all parts of the world.
Gen. Peter Wrangel- upon whom
King George bestowed the might
commandership Of the Order of st.
Michael and -. George, is a very re-
mark able man. into whose life of
forty-four years much has been
crowded. Born at Petrograd. as the
elder son OF an Impoverished Baltic
baron of Swedish descent. he was
brought up in a different manner
nobleman. His father. the late Baron
Nicolai wrangel, who had entered
the international Bank of Petrograd,
and became one OF its principal Off
cials, caused Peter to be trained as
a mining engineer with a view to the
exploitation and development of the
banks mining properties in Siberia.
He was graduated. in due course,
from. the Imperial Academy OF Engi-
neers at Petrograd. then served as
private in the crack corps of the
Chevaliers Gardes of the empress and
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Japan. in 1904, Volunteered for. ae-
tive service in Manchuria, and -ses-
cured his transfer, with the rank of
en-commissioned officer, to the
Transbaikal Cossack regiment, and
so distinguished himself that he was
promoted. first of all. to the rank of
lieutenant. and then to that OF cap
tain, on the battlefield. Returning to
Petrograd on the restoration of peace,
he joined his old regiment. the Chev-
alier Gardes. as captain, and there
upon married.
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The outbreak of the great war
found him a senior captain of his
cavalry regiment. In the first en-
counter of any Importance between
the Russian and German troops his
regiment was decimated and the day
was all but lost. when Capt. Wran-
gel, at the head of his small squad
ron Of cavalry and in defiance OF the
orders which he had received to re-
tire. charged and routed a battery
OF the enemy, capturing the first two
German guns taken by the Russians
during the war. For this daring ex-
ploit he was pronoted to the rank
OF colonel. received the st. Georges
cross and was appointed aide-de--.
camp,to the late car. In 1915 he was
fntrusted with the command OF his
old Cossack regiment, with which he
had won his spurs in the war with
The revolution found him, on. the
Austrian. front in command of an
entIre division OF Cossacks. who were
bI,neiy devoted to him and ready tSs rs3 .S
tn ioin Gen. Kalledin, one OF the
prineipsI Russian sSmTandes;s; nan s;ctstar no
Eerensky, to keep Russia loyal to
the cause of the entente. After Kerr
snsky.s betrayal OF Gen Kalledin to