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...years ago Russia sent three white men, three white women and 50 Eskimo families to bleak little Wrangel Island, disastrous site 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The people were called a colony and their planting on the island was a Soviet gesture of possession against the rival claims of the U. S. and Canada. In the 1820's the Russian Baron Wrangel heard of, but did not see, the island. In 1867, Captain Thomas Long, U. S. citizen, sailed around and named it. Just before the War, Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who recently announced his plans...
Present when death came were Grand Duke Peter and representatives of the ''White Russian Army," organized by the late Baron Wrangel (TIME, May 7), pledged to the Grand Duke Nicholas, and now left desolate in Jugoslavia and Rumania, where the "soldiers" work as laborers...
...Since Baron Wrangel died, his army is now the Grand Duke Nicholas' army, but what is it? Scattered! A few thousand men scattered in Bulgaria and Serbia-they call it now Jugoslavia. A phantom army...
Almost at once the O. G. P. U. was able to announce that its efficient police-spies had tracked down the bombers. One, stated to be Colonel Georgi Nikolaevich, a onetime officer in the White Russian Army of Baron Wrangel, was chased by O. G. P. U.-ers and shot through the heart as he fled. The other bomb heaver, unidentified, was taken alive in the suburbs of Moscow through the aid of loyal peasants who betrayed his hiding place...
...coincidence that Mrs. Sawyer had half finished a letter to Baroness Wrangel enclosing a check to her when I read your article. I hope that your reply will release the letter...