Ancther step in the history of the Russian Volunteer Fhet is shown by an advertisement announcing that the head office of the company has been transferred from Constantinople to Paris. To those intimately acquainted with the recent history of the Fleet, this change will cause no surprise, but it is worth while mentioning the circumstances bringing it about. From 1917 onwards a very portant part of the Fleet has b that stationed in the Black Sea. It, was largely to keep in touch with that portion that the first move of the Head office was made from Petrograd, this occurring when the Kerensky xégime broke down. The head office was then removed to Theodosia in South Russia, and there it remained during the ascendancy of Denikin, the ships meantime trading to Black Sea ports. With the fall of Denikin and a more precarious state of affairs, it was resolved to move the headquarters to Constantinople, a suitable point from which the movements of the Fleet might be directed. This arrangement was satisfactory so long as Wrangel's army was in being, but on the defeat of Wrangel it was necessary to withdraw the ships from the Black Sea in order to escape capture by the Bolsheviks. When this was done there was no longer any need for the head office to remain in Constantinople, and accordingly it has been moved more into the centre of European trade by placing it in Paris.
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