n who perished here." A pity if the equality
and simplicity of the Gallipoli cemeteries is broken into.

An exchange of hospitality with H.M.S. "Tumult," standing off Chanak,
kept us in touch with the outside world, giving us the wireless messages
each day. Thus we heard of the application of the "sanctions" to
Germany, the conclusion of the trade treaty with Soviet Russia, the fall
of Batum, and other items of world interest. The first officer told us
how they stood off at Sevastopol and took on Russian wounded, the most
appalling cases of suffering where there was never a murmur from the men,
and the Russian sisters sat with them all day and all night with a
never-tiring devotion. The Commander and every one were strongly
Russophile--won to them by personal contact with the Russians, and that
although the ship "stank like a pole-cat" before it could bring the
refugees to port.

The Commander very kindly gave me a passage to Gallipoli, where a large
part of Wrangel's army was encamped. We tore up the channel at an
unexampled pace, the cleft north wind driving angrily past as the
destroyer rived its way through. And in an hour we came to the
ramshackle capital and main port of the peninsula, where a host of
khaki-clad soldiers stared at us from the quay.

General Wrangel's army numbered about eighty thousand men when it was
transported from the Crimea, and about ten thousand had left him for one
cause and another at the time when the French presented the
ultimatum--"Go to Brazil or back to Soviet Russia, or we shall cut off
the rations on April the first." Wrangel's war material, his guns and
machine-guns and ammunition, were given mostly to the Georgians, who
promptly lost it to the Bolsheviks or sold it to Kemal. The Greeks
certainly complain that the Kemalist army, after being almost devoid of
artillery, suddenly became possessed of it in a mysterious way, and
shelled them with French shells. The Greek set-back at Smyrna is no
doubt partly attributable to the disposal of Wrangel's weapons. His
ships and stores were mostly commandeered by the French, and the value of
them set off against the rations supplied to the army.

France probably thought originally that she could yet employ these forces
in a further adventure against the Bolsheviks. Her idea doubtless was to
throw Wrangel's army into the scale on another front of war whenever
opportunity should arise. Britain, in refusing to support Wrangel,
ac