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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.
The Courier-du-Bois got stuck in the deep snow, exhausted and beaten before they were anywhere near Emtsa. American Machine Gun men at Verst 445 front reported that S. B. A. L. deserters had gone over to the Bolo lines. The Reds on December 29th and 30th became very active with their artillery.
But when he went to report that fact he found the village of Seletskoe evacuated by his own forces, natives also having fled with everything of value from the samovar to the cow. A few hours later the old corporal appeared on the other bridgeless bank of the Emtsa across from the "K" men who were digging in and said in a puzzled way, "I saiy, old chap, wots the bloody gaime?"
It is interesting to note that the American Sergeant's insistence that he and his companions be given bath and means to shave, won the respect and assistance of the guard and the Bolshevik officer. Of course in making the two day's march in prisoner convoy from Bolsheozerki to Emtsa there had been severe hardship and privation and painful uncertainty and mental agony over their possible fate.
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.
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