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Show SOVIET TROOPS I GATHER VALUABLE I STORES OF ROOTY I Moscow Dispatch Says Fleeing Army Is Burning Food Supplies WRAMGEL WANTS TO SURRENDER COMMAND Asks Retired British General To Take Charge in Cri mean District LONDON, Nov. 13. Reviewing the i Crimean military situation a Moscow message says: J "After fierce battles In which much booty was captured and after break- gf Ing through a number of fortified po- H Sitlons the red troops are pen ritinp Lriniea. The second cavalry -ps Is H already advancing in the pi d nSi Is on a wide front; the enemy is ret -eat- ing In disorder, blowing up nllitary LH stores, burning food and revenging ,1 Itself on the population." WKANt.I L WOULD Ql IT. LONDON. Nov . 13. Genera! Wran- gel has telegraphed Major General H Charles V. Townshend, who command- LH ed the British forces at Kut-el-Amara ! in 1015, asking him to take command I of Wrangcl's forces in Crimea. Geh" eral Townshe-id is considering tin L matter. I Early in October It was reported that General Tpwnshend was going to jo.n General Wrangel on the Crlmeau g front This caused some comment at the time, but it w. . point.-. l uUt that Genera Townabend had resigned fr..m ; the British army and that his offt r I was a personal affair. DKSPER l E stTl VCIOS ffKBASTOPOL, Nov. 13 . By the j Associated Press). The forces of Gen-cr.il Gen-cr.il Wrangel In the Crimea are n lOSl desperate situation, the Bolshe-ivlki Bolshe-ivlki having broken througs all the LH lines of defense and are now attack-Ing attack-Ing the Wrangel .rmy in the rear The exucuatlon of Sebastdpol will i.e effected by Sunday, according to LH quarters close to General Wmngel. VRSRTfg s.s,S PARIS, Nov. i3.Thc Frvnch war-ships war-ships Waldeck-Rosseau and Provi- LH denco are aiding in the evacuation of Sebastopol, aays a Havaa dlspatpfa and are making special arrangements for the care of the military missions and I the French colony. Measure's are on-der on-der wav for the protection of members gH of the Wrangel government from Bo-shcylk Bo-shcylk reprisals. |