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Evacuated sick and wounded from Ust Padenga eighteen versts beyond Shenkursk in sleds filled with hay and blankets necessary for warmth. Shakleton shoes had not arrived at that time. Most cases coming back in good condition, but pneumonia cases would not stand the exposure. Condition at Ust Padenga very uncertain. Lieut. Powers and Lieut. Taufanoff in charge of ten-bed detention hospital.
In order then to withdraw our lines and to add greater safety to the columns, it was finally decided to withdraw from Rovdinskaya to Ust Padenga.
Taking Of Shenkursk On Vaga "Horse Marines" Battling At Puia Bad Position For Troops Retirement To Ust Padenga Critical Situation "C" Company Stands Heavy Losses Lieutenant Cuff And Men Killed In Hand To Hand Fighting Bolshevik Patrols Cossack Forces Weak On Defense.
It was also plainly apparent that in case the Vaga River force was driven back to the Dvina it would necessitate the withdrawal of the forces on the Dvina from their strongly fortified position at Toulgas consequently, we received orders that this position at Ust Padenga must be held at all cost.
I adopted this plan in hospital, but impossible to get their officers to follow this rule at their barracks latrines. Reported it to British headquarters but they stated that they could not do anything. Dec. 8th, 1918. Left by sled for Ust Padenga to inspect hospital. Arrived at 11:00 a.m. Very cold day. General conditions very good considering circumstances. Using pits out in open for latrines.
On the night of January 21st some of the enemy, disguised as peasants, approached one of the sentries on guard at a lonely spot near the village and coldly butchered him with axes; another had been taken prisoner, and with the daily reports of our casualties at Ust Padenga, the little garrison was justly apprehensive.
Outside of routine patrolling, outpost duties and intermittent shelling and sniping, the early part of the month of January, 1919, was comparatively quiet on the Ust Padenga front.
Positions Near Ust Padenga In January Bolo Patrols Overwhelming Assault By Bolos January Nineteenth Through Valley Of Death Canadian Artillery And Machine Gun Fire Punishes Enemy Frightfully When He Takes Ust Padenga Death Of Powers Enemy Artillery Makes American Position Untenable Escaping From Trap Retreating With Constant Rear-Guard Actions We Lose Our Last Gun "A" Company Has Miraculous Escape But Suffers Heavy Losses.
And when in the winter horses and sleighs meant life or death to the doughboys, the peasants were true to their American soldier friends. After the fatal ambush of Lieutenant Cuff's patrol at Ust Padenga, "C" Company, was relieved about the first of December by Company "A." During the remainder of the month there was more or less activity on both sides of the line.
Two days later after a violent artillery preparation, the enemy, still believing our Russian comrades located in the village of Ust Padenga, started an open attack upon this deserted position over part of the same ground where so many of our brave comrades had lost their lives on the nineteenth.
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