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Show RUSS REFUGEES ASK ASSISTANCE Thousands Fleeing Before Advance Ad-vance Against Wrangel Must Leave Country CONSTANTINOPLE, N- B. M. j Rrlvochln, pi em i. i In the government of General Wrarig i. talking to the AmiT.can newspaper eorre.spontlents today, made an appeal for American 'abl for the rofugees from southern , ' Russia. I "First," said at. Krivochln, permit me to express heartfelt gratitude to the American peopi and the American I Bed 'ros for their charitable work on behalf of the wounded and M k Bus- . Ian refugees. The military disaster ,do's not metn that there Is no further 'necessity for further assistance, Aid inow Is more than mcr S matter of llle "'and death to the tens of thousands of j unfortunate and utterly destitute refugees refu-gees from the most cruel tyranny the' world ever has known 1RM1 BLED WHITE. "General Wrangel's army has been1 bled Whltl Mlhough Inferior in iium-Jbcrs iium-Jbcrs it held position after position! against an overwhelming Spjlght of the Beds." t "The situation became extremel critical When General Wrangel was I isolated, especially after the Polish armistice, when he supported the brunt of th- lied onslaughts We ex-I pected Perekop to hold out, but the, premature froMi proved a powerful al-' ly to our enemy. V7rangei'S positions were defended by frost bitten, wounded wound-ed and exhausted soldiers; the dead were piled In heaps, the cruel artillery smitchlnK nearly all the commanders Despite their high morale, there la a limit to human force which has now-j been reached. IX NEEDY CONDITION "Crimea, the lost strip of Russia j where the principles of truth, liberty and freedom prevailed, Is being evac-listed. evac-listed. The wounded, the children, the women and the sick will be evacuated first, becausi if left behind, their fate at the bunds of the Bolshcvlkl would be frightful. Although saved from the Beds' barbarities, they arc bound for an unknown destination where they will be without the means of support, sup-port, In a strange countrv. We do not know where they can find refuge; we can only beg help General Wrangel In his last i rdei pointed out the real situation to all I who desired to embark on the ships." oo |