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Show I BOLSHEVIK ARMY GRABBING ARMENIA SOVIET FORCES I ASSISTED BY : TURKISH BIND South Russia Dreads Winter With Food Supplies Decidedly Low GENERA1 WRANGEt IN CONTROL OF ISTHMUS Hopes for Internal Troubles in Russia to He!p Him to Success CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 7 (Dy the associated Press Armenia is passing under Bolihevik control, it is vi iii in reports received here from Tlfl.s. Turks and Lolshevlk Tartars have effected o Jnr.it on at Ah xundro-pol. xundro-pol. : nd it is probable the city of Rri-van Rri-van has been occupied by Turkish troops commanded by Kazlo K;iara-blr K;iara-blr Pasha. Armenian troops are reported to be surrendering or seeking refuge in Georgia. The Russian Holshevlkl. It is said in reports from Sebastopol, are send-1 Ing units from three armies now in; .the Crimean region to Baku arid Tra ns-( 'a un. si. t II N.. !. (lot, lis KKV. Cl NSTA N TIN' 1 1 'L1C. Nov. 5 fBj t)i Associated Press,) South Rdsslan antl-Russlan Bolshevik forces under command ( General ltaron Wrangcll Still hold I'erekop and BaikOVO, keys to the isthmus leading from Crimea to the mainland of Russia. Military observers declare General Wninjrel has many 10 and l' inch guns as well as other heavier pieces which will be ! planted to protect his lines from the; Holshcviki. who also are concentrating their artillery forces. Along the sev-l ii miie tren b system across the isth-miis isth-miis General W range! has established elaborate barbed wire entanglements. U INT! It BRI ll l Tire Impending winter is dreaded in1 rimea, where .OtiO.OOO people, with .. limited foori, little clothing and virtually no money, have gathered. A dollar Is worth 60,000 rubles at present pres-ent .n Sebustopol Nevertheless, Gen-1 cial Wrangel hopes internal troubles I i.i sovi.-t i;us.sla will work in his fa-; fa-; vor. i ki si 1 1 vi n n ii PARIS. Nov. 8. sGeneral Baron Wrangel, antl-Bolshevik leader in tin-Crimea, tin-Crimea, still la holding th0 isthmus of l-erekop. thjj only means of ingress to the Crimean penlnsuls by land, and the military situation from his stand-, point Is not hopeless, according to a1 report to the French foreign office i ram M DeMartel, French high com-! nilssioner at Sebastopol General Wrangel, tho report says, Is confident the Holshevlkl will be unable to break thioiiKh hl.s line of defense at th0 Isthmus Isth-mus and Invade the Crimes The French government, it was declared de-clared today, has not changed its attitude at-titude toward ih. mllltar) situation In. siMith Russia, and, as rece'ntlj is In-1 dlcatsd, will not send military assistance assist-ance to General Wrangel. A French! warship will be dispatched from Tou-1 ton Tuesday to remove the French col-' ony should such a measure become iirc-easar-. oo |