Word: wrangell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...recent edition you printed an article on General Wrangel of the White Army. On account of the particular interest which will later appear, I copied the following quotation from that article...
...inquire the source of your information because I have had a charming woman whom I supposed to be the Baroness Wrangel, General Wrangel's wife, in my house twice during the past four years and have received letters from her during that time. I am of course much interested to know whether not only myself but many, many others have been imposed upon by a poseur or whether there is some explanation, which I think must be the case. She has told us the complete story, the retreat of the White Army, the escape from the Crimea, the hiding...
...genuine Baroness Wrangel she is a wonder. Incidentally she has collected considerable sums of money from various cities in the United States for the support of her tuberculosis camps...
...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...