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Show FRENCH DECIDE TO RECOGNIZE CENJPGEL France Hopes for Overthrow of I Bolshevik Menace Through South Russia Leader i I PARIS. Auu 11. ( H the Associat-led Associat-led Press ) The P'rem-h government jhas decided to recognise General ron peter Wrangel ns head of rh de-facto de-facto government of south Russia, in imakim; this announcement the ministry min-istry of foreign affaire said this rtc-'ognltion rtc-'ognltion implied rendering General v. range 1 all possible mllltarj ussiat-once. ussiat-once. Krnnce will send a high commissioner commis-sioner to Sevastopol Immediately, the foreign office stated. Two reasons were given by tho foreign for-eign office for recognising General Wrangcl. The first was his promise to assume all the obligations of the former Russian government The iec-und iec-und vvns his promise to give Russia a I uinoci c( o goi eminent, NOTU II s i SGLAND. Frame notified Premier LlOyd George yesterday of her uctlon. It was BteteU The French likewise Is notl- fyiug Ha commercial attache In Lon- dtn to have no dealings with Leonid fvfasain ami Leo Knmcneff. the so-viet so-viet emissaries in the Rntish capital ! The French foreign office regards jthe soviet terms to Roland, which Vhe ' U. itlsh premier read In t!.e house of commons last night, is only preliml-,n.nrj preliml-,n.nrj and it is convinced that the soviet government later would exact much harsher terms. t OMPKI I VI I i; AIM It. The ministry of foreign a flairs said tho soviet government a anxiety with regard lo General W range I'D successes was due to its knowledge that he was thu most competent ml l-l-.ohshev ikl leader who iud yet appeared. I The French believe General Wrangcl Wran-gcl shows more promise of overturning overturn-ing the Bolshevikl regime than did th Poles. General Denlkine or Admiral Admi-ral Kolchak. and point out he Is meeting meet-ing with great successes In turning nil fthe Cossack tribes against the Hol-shevikl. Hol-shevikl. )v o BOASTS ICTORIES LONDON, Aug. 11. Tuesday s official offi-cial statement from Moscow carried a brief paragraph with regard to the soviet forces which ure engaging those i f General Wrangel it says. i "On the Crimean front the fighting 'on the entire front continues livora-j livora-j ble lo us " |