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Died. Captain Madame Nadezhda Budennaya, famed Soviet cavalry-woman, wife of General Budenny, Commander in Chief of the Soviet cavalry; at Moscow. Reputed the most dashing female rider in all Russia, she was twice wounded in action against the Wrangel forces...
Thousands of women and children deluded into peril by the White hope of General Wrangel, he succored. His was the first balm to heal the wounds of fire at Smyrna. Grimly he protected U. S. interests at Lusanne conferences. And last year he was the first diplomat to call on Mustafa Kemal, President of New Turkey...
...ADVENTURE OF WRANGEL ISLAND - Vilhjalmur Stefansson - Macmillan ($6.00). Wrangel was an explorer; and an Arctic island off Siberia, according to Mr. Stefansson, was named after him by U. S. Whaling Captain Thomas Long.* This book, highly entertaining, contains accounts of several visits made to the Island and ends with uncertainty as to which country owns it -Russia, Britain or the U. S. Mr. Stefansson, who in 1914 took Wrangel Island for the British and later offered it to the U. S., seems, according to Russian advice, to have been beaten by the Bolsheviki. More certainly, nobody- except the aerophile scientists...
...popularly asserted that Baron Wrangel discovered the island...
...would spend some 24 hours examining the Pole and its vicinity. He thought it might be possible to establish a fuel and food base at the Pole for further aerial exploration. From Kings Bay to the Pole is only a seven-hour flight. From the Pole south to Wrangel Island and Bering Strait is about 1,500 miles...