BELGIUM: Last Hope

A dark, massive, earnest man, stalwart and commanding, arrived at Brussels last week, and established himself with a few faithful retainers in cheap and modest quarters.

His cause seems lost. He is Peter Nicholaievich, Baron Wrangel, the last hope of the “White” Tsarist Russian emigrés. In 1920 the victories of his “White Knights” over portions of the “Red Army” gave hope that the Bolshevist tide might be dammed. Then France and Britain withdrew their support from General Wrangel, he was driven even from Sevastopol, fled. Until last week his refuge was Belgrade, Jugoslavia.

At Brussels he said: “My 40,000 White Knights are now workmen, but their spirit of union is not lost. Each contributes a portion of his pay to our organization. Never before has there been such a voluntary submission to common discipline by an army scattered but not routed. Ours is a real army of knights preparing their forces for the day when Holy Russia may need them”