The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-31
WRANGEL' s Wife
REVEALS PLOT
!. ON COMMUNISTS
attack on SOUiets to Be
FinGnced in U. S.
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NEW YORK CITY, Jan. o.
Olga WrangeI, ex-baronsss,
wife of Baron" WrangeI, in
an interview with a Russian
paper here, revealed that she is
in America raising money to
maintain the remnants of her
husbands white army now sta
toned in Roumania.
Baroness" Wrangel admitted
that her husbands army is be-
ling maintained in part by
funds that the Russian royal"
family is receiving.
The counterrevoIutionary Plot
against Soviet Russia is to be financed
by American money, Baroness Wran-
CELL states. The recent visits Of the
Grand Duke Cyril and the Grand
Duchess Feodorovna are thus ex-
planned as another drive against So
Wet Russia.
WranseI's Troops Ready.
II am collecting funds for the sani-
tariums in Roumania and Serbia which
the Russian royal family is maintain
! ing" said Baroness Wrangel. When
pressed further, Baroness Wrangel
let the cat out of the bag. my hus-
band still has an army of twenty-five
thousand men who are ready to fight
at his command" she said. Fifteen
thousand Of the are stationed in
Roumania and the other ten thousand
are spread over the various Balkan
states. They are ready to shoulder
their rifles at moments notice against
Soviet Russia at my husbands com.
manu."
Baroness Wrangell said that the
"sanitariums" for which she is col.
lecting money contain the wounded
and sick soldiers commanded by my
husband"
Wrangels army, after being driven
from southern Russia by the Soviet
Red Army in the campaign in which
General Budenny, the Communis;
cavalry leader, took leading part,
fed with the Russian feet to Con
stantinopIe. The feet, until recently
quartered in Tifiis. French Algieres,
was turned over to the Soviet govern
ment by the French, following that
country's recognition of Soviet Rus.
STA. French and British officers and
money promoted Wrangel's counter
Revolutionary attack on Soviet Russia.
Fights Balkan Reds.
From Constantinople. Wrangers BAN
dit army was scattered over the Bal
kans to fight the Communists In the
Balkan states. Wrangel's troops took
part in the fascist violence in Bull
garia which overthrow the Stamboulis-
ky peasant government. His troops
have been at the beck and call of
French and British Imperialism, and
are differed by the French and
British.
wrangel's troops were also used in
the attacks on the Communists in
Serbia, Jugo-Slavia, Roumania and
Esthonia.
SOCIALISTS rep imperiailsts.
The fact that the imperialist gov
ernments Of Europe. in alliance with
the Second International are max
ing a concerted drive to raise Amer
lean money, shows that the capitalist
governments of Europe are preparing
further fascist attacks on the Com
munists despite recognition of Russia.
At the same time that France, under
the capitalist tool Herriot. and the
Baldwin government of England are
dickering for Russian oil and Offering
diplomatic recognition as quietly as
possible, they are collecting their fas
cist armies for another onslaught on
the Communists in the Balkans and
Soviet Russia.
United Front Against Russia.
The socialist party OF America has
entered this imperialistic alliance. and
is sponsoring the tour of the tool o.
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