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They had the Allied warriors now ill at ease and nervous. The trench mortar men and the machine gun men can tell many an interesting story of those January days on the Kodish Front serving there with the mixed command of Canadians and King's Liverpools and Dyer's Battalion of Russians.
In fact, the Reds counterattacked just at dark and once more the doughboys lay down, on their arms, in the rain-flooded swamp, where the dark, frosty morning would find them stiff and ugly customers for the Reds to tackle. In fact they did rise up and smite the Bolshevik so swiftly that he fled from his works and left Kodish in such a hurry that he gave no forwarding address for his mail.
But it is true also that there was not a single incident of the whole campaign which could with honesty be attributed to this propaganda. On the Kodish Front it is quite safe to say that there was more of this ludicrous literature not ludicrous to the Russian peasant, but very much so to the average American taken in than on any other.
Old "K" Company, breathless yet from its terrific struggle to hold Kodish, was back at base headquarters at Seletskoe waiting patiently for "E" Company to relieve them. Captain Heil's company had left Archangel by railroad and was somewhere on the cold forest trail between Obozerskaya and Seletskoe.
Each unit caught a gleam of fire from the old Irishman's eye as he looked them over on December 28th and 29th, while "L" Company came up to take over the front so as to relieve the men for their preparations for the shock of the battle. The enemy was holding Kodish with two thousand seven hundred men, supported by four pieces of artillery and a reserve of seven hundred men.
Thinking of their eleven comrades killed in this advance and of the thirty-one wounded and of the many sick from exposure, the Americans on the Kodish force as well as the English marines and Scots who also had lost severely, were loath to stop with so easy a victory in sight.
The nearest friendly troops, including their artillery, were back at Seletskoe, thirty versts away. On October 29th the Reds returned to Avda. The noise from that village and reports brought by patrols indicated that this enemy who erstwhile was on the run, and whom our high command now held lightly, was determined to regain Kodish.
Two platoons of Couriers du Bois, the well trained Russian White Guards under French tutelage, and those same Royal Marines that had been with him the first time Kodish was taken in the bloody fight in the fall. And Lt. Ballard's gallant platoon of machine gun men came to relieve the first "M. G." platoon and to join the drive. They had an old score to settle with the Bolos, too.
Below is reproduced one of Thomas' cartoons from The Detroit News, which shows the doughboy sitting in a Toulgas trench or a Kodish, or Shred Makrenga, or Pinega, or Chekuevo, or Railroad trench.
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.
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