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Preparing For Spring Defensive River Situation Ticklish Must Hold Till Our Gunboats Can Get Up "F" Company Crosses River On Cracking Ice Canadian Artillery Well Placed And Effectively Handled Holds Off Red Flotilla Engineers Help Clear Dvina With Dynamite Joyful Arrival Of British Gunboat "Glow Worm" We Retake Ignatavskaya Amusing Yet Dangerous Fishing Party British Relief Forces Arrive On Vaga Toulgas Is Lost And Retaken British-Russian Drive At Karpogora Fails Old White Guard Pinega Troops Hold Their City Against Red Drive Again Kodish And Onega Fronts Quiet Railroad Front Active But No Heavy Fighting General Richardson Helps Us Let Go Tail-Holt.
But that British-Russian adventure resulted disastrously. Two British officers lost their lives and their troops were nearly frozen in the woods and badly cut up by the Reds who had been all set for them with a murderous battery of machine guns.
Too late the British-Russian command of the Pinega Valley found that the Americans had been right in their strategy which had not failed to properly estimate the Bolo strength and to properly measure the enormous labor and hardship of the cross-forest snows.
Although many of these men had been drafted by the Archangel government and as we have seen by such local county governments as Pinega, they were fairly well trained under old Russian officers who crept out to serve when they saw the new government meant business. And many capable young officers came from the British-Russian officers' school at Bakaritsa. Two women and a man are observing.
But the enemy retired mysteriously as he had oft before just when it seemed that he would overpower the British-Russian force that had been calling for help. So the Americans were free to go back to the more ticklish Vaga-Dvina area.
It was now an entirely British-Russian front and the American officer who had remained voluntarily to lead in the last big fight because of his complete knowledge of the battle area now went to well-earned rest in Archangel. In closing the story of the Americans on the Kodish Front we turn to the words written us by Lt.
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