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Show 1 U. S. INTERESTED - IN GEN. WRflNGEL V Anti-bolshevik Leader Had Re- : markable Career Since j Leaving Armies Washington, Aug. h (By The B Associated Press.) An Informal in- . 1 qulry Into the character and policies 1bjB of the anti-Bolshevik leader In sou- 'ijU thern Russia. General Grangel ha ? qH been begun by government officials, 3 Ml No immediate anticipation of recog- ' nltlon by the United States Is Involved. officials said, but should the Inquiry r develop satisfactory, It is thought pos- j ;:B sible that the elements clustered about W range! may afford a road to the k1 1 r' 1 1 1 o n ol conditions In Russia per- IIJB tiilttlng her re-acceptance among na- MvBBf tlons. Tirrn; or rfport. 'fiSsSJ One report on the general's career SSM has been received, written by a ncu- nNT tral observer atached to his staff fcj"jf2 The general, but thirty-nine years iiJ according to the report, enlisted kiBT In the Russian army In 1901 as a prl- VjJjBJ vate after having boen educated as HbW a mining engineer Though his ances- BlB tors are said to have come from Gcr- BYI 0 many, his slock Is of Baltic province WOfK derivation. TMr Leaving the army in 1902 after pro- (B, motion to a lieutenancy. Wrangel re- 2, IL enlisted on the outbreak of the Rus- BgteJSj . so-Japanese war and was tvlce pro- moted. In the European war he dls- ljM tinguished himself on August 19, 1914, HMD taking a German battery for which RBSsI he was decorated with the Cross of Ml St. George o Promoted to the rank of colonel, he Lm was appointed an aide to the czar and iH later became commander of tho First Trans-Baikal Cossack regiment with Yj which In July, 1916, he captured a BjM battalion and 9ever.il machine guns VSr?1 lie was promoted to a major general. "Bf J Following the first days of the revo- f lutlon, when the Russian offensive in Galicla was preo-ded by a dlsor-derly dlsor-derly retreat. Wrangel Is said to have 'prevented a great military disaster" 4t i He continued with tho urmy until dls- jT orders of the revolution had destroyed K-a ts discipline if I UIKLH VITKK ULVOH TlOX, General Wrangel then retired to tho iT Crimea. Arrested by the Bolshevikl. Lij he was saved from execution by his wife. In tho summer of 1918 with tho mgj growth of the vojunteer antl-Bolshe- wmf vlk army, he was given command of t a brigade under General Erdell. Wran- Bolshevlkl and liberated the Kuban, later entered Stavrapol and attained, In February. 1919. tho liberation of all of north Caucasus and the Terek 1 state He was promoted to lieutenant general and placed In command of the H Caucasus army. Stricken with typhus fever It was ! not until April, when tho volunteer army had suffered reverses, that he i could resume command and, because of the necessity of reforming the scattered scat-tered elements of the forces Of General Deneklne, he was designed military ad-User ad-User to General Shilling. I TAXES HIGH COMMAND, With the evacuation of Odessa and tho reduction of Shillings' responsible r ltles. Wrangel proceeded to Sebaatapol where he was Informed b ythe British admiral there that on arcount ot rt -vlous difficulties with General Deneklne. Dene-klne. that officer requested that he H leave Russia- He retired to N'ovorosslk. when.- h,-r h,-r prepared evacuation of tho wounded II and then left for the Crimea. : ' Nervousness of the troops," tho re- port declared, "resulting from the , news of his retirement, forced him to (j leave Russia, but on April 4, 19IQ, "1 jiubllc opinion caused General T'ene- dm klne, then head of the voluntoer army J to resign and a council of Russian " gelicraia lu elect ran gel." JejE |