Show W YAs A- A u. u S1 ENVOY CAPTURED Of DY HU RUSS S1 Moscow Thus Rep Reports but Washington Says It It Cant Can't Be So LONDON Nov 6 GAn Au An American mission In south Russia Hussla has fallen into the hands of or the so l soviet forces accord ing to tho the Moscow newspaper Pravda as quoted Quote in a wireless dispatch today from the tho soviet let capital The mission says sars the newspaper er was headed by Morel The Pravda reported the Incident in I recording details of ol the bolshevik at attack attack attack at- at tack upon tho the forces force of or General Baron range The paragraph concerning the tho mission reads At station which was taken without a a. shot an American mission fell into our hands at the head of which was General Morel 1 who had hadI I task of oC combating bandits In the i IV rt I r T V lie te army my WASHINGTON DOUBTS I I WASHINGTON Nov 6 State G.-State State and I war department officials said today they had no knowledge of ot any official American mission being within the warZone war warzone zone in southern Russia Neither had any report been received by the two departments of oC a mission falling tailing into the hands of oC the soviet forces The suggestion was made unofficially unofficial unofficial- ly Iy that the General Morel reported by the Moscow newspaper Pravda r been i- i hv i 0 n as I r w might be either l French Tench a officer cc commanding com com- in- in manding a detachment in the army or M. M de Martel chief of or the French diplomatic mission sent into the Crimea and accredited to The French embassy however had re received received re- re no report concerning the incident inci mci- dent and express doubt that their diplomatic diplomatic dip dip- mission had gotten into such position as to make possible its capture cap cap- ture AMERICANS IN CRIMEA So far as known the only Amert American mission now in the Crimea is an American Red Cross Crosa unit of about a dozen members commanded by Major George H H. of ot Kansas City Mo There also is an American naval and I diplomatic mission under Rear Admiral Newton A. A McCully representing the state department but the activities of oC I this mission have been confined largely large- large Iv ly to the Black Dlack sea sen area It Tf Is la nO I I ble bic however howe that one or ore m-ore more its or-its of its representatives have been attached to General l as observers The Red Cross Cress mission mission- has been op op- op rating in Iq southern Russia for more than than- thana a year and has supplied ambulances ambulances lances surgical dressings and other needed articles to the Russian Hussian volunteer volun volun- teer army On the invitation of oC vOlun-j vOlun General Gen Gen- eral oral several members of ot the mission have accompanied the army in its operations in the Crimea The headquarters of the mission is at Sebastopol I |