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Captain Donoghue gained a foot-hold and then was forced to dig in and during the afternoon repulsed two counter attacks of the Bolos, having paid for the capture of the two Bolo machine guns by severe losses. During the night under cover of these two platoons, "L" and the English marines crossed the river, where the Reds had held them so many days.
But so loud and prolonged were the yells of the frightened and wounded Reds that Captain Donoghue, a verst in the rear at his field headquarters, he related afterwards, paced the floor of the log shack in an agony of certainty that his brave men were all gone. He had been sure that the howling of the scattered pack had been the fervent yells of a last bayonet charge wiping out the Yankees.
I was not overcome myself with the wit or humour of the jest, but Donoghue was, and he roared with laughter until none of us could help roaring with him in sheer sympathy. He was as enchanted with his method of learning Italian.
He was one of the sort of men whose habit is to turn up wherever you may happen to be, in whatever part of the world, with no apparent reason for being there except to talk to you, the last time we met was in a remote corner of Kensington Gardens in London, where he took up the talk just where we had left off at the Nazionale in Rome and as it is years since he has turned up anywhere to talk to us, I fear he has joined the Philadelphia Architect and Donoghue where he will talk no more.
Donoghue had four hundred fifty men. At 6:00 a. m. "E" and "K" Companies were on the east bank of the Emtsa moving toward the right flank of the Bolos and firing red flares at intervals with Very pistol to inform Donoghue of their progress.
At the time Donoghue struck, a frontal demonstration was made upon the Reds by the English marines and American machine guns firing across the river and by the Canadian artillery shelling the woods where the Red reserves were thought to be. The plan failed because of the inability of Captain Cherry to reach his objective, on account of the bottomless swamps that he encountered.
Now the trench mortar platoon and "M. G." platoon went to the railroad front, and Major Donoghue was the last one to leave the famous Kodish Front, where he had won distinction.
PVT. CLARENCE A. MILLER, "M" Co., 339th Inf. Meritorious Service Medal All of "A" Company, 310th Engineers St. Vladimir with Swords and Ribbons REAR-ADMIRAL NEWTON A. McCULLY, Commanding U. S. Naval Forces. MAJOR MICHAEL J. DONOGHUE, 339th Inf. MAJOR J. BROOKS NICHOLS, 339th Inf. COL. JAMES A. RUGGLES, Chief of American Military Mission, Military Attache to Embassy in Russia. St. Anne With Swords
Donoghue Brings Valuable Reinforcements Bolshevik Orator On Emtsa Bridge Conditions Detrimental To Morale Preparations For Attack On Kodish Savage Fighting Blade To Blade Bolsheviks Would Not Give Way Desperately Bitter Struggle We Hold Kodish At Awful Cost Under Constant And Severe Barrage Half-Burned Shell-Gashed Houses Mark Scene Of Struggle We Retire From Kodish Again We Capture Kodish But Can Not Advance Death Of Ballard Counter Attack Of Reds Is Barely Stemmed Both Sides See Futility Of Fighting For Kodish "K" Means Kodish Where Heroic Blood Of Two Continents Stained Snows Richly.
This force was also to help Col. Hazelden out. But as we have seen, his force had been destroyed, and Americans hurriedly sent out. At Volshenitsa Captain Donoghue received a message by aeroplane from Col. Guard at Obozerskaya that "D" Force was held up at Tiogra by the Reds.
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