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Left medical and Red Cross supplies at Lower Toulgas and took aboard eight sick and wounded troops. Started for Beresnik. Stopped at Chamova to pick up one sick and one wounded American. Arrived at Beresnik Nov. 8th. With medical and Red Cross supplies left for Shenkursk on hospital ship "Currier." Natives very friendly along the Vaga River and anxious to barter. Arrived at Shenkursk Nov. 11th.
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.
Place comfortable and clean. General sanitation and billeting the same as in all other Russian villages. Reached Pless and left some medical stores with Capt. Watson, then proceeded to Toulgas with medical and Red Cross supplies. On way to headquarters a few stray shots were fired by snipers, but no harm done.
On another page is told the story of similar artifices resorted to by the Reds on the Toulgas Front to break into the morale of the American troops. It was well that the American officer adopted firm measures. To be sure the great rank and file of American soldiers like their people back home could not be fooled by propaganda.
The forces of the railroad had been checked near Emtsa, far above Plesetskaya. The other troops on the Dvina had by this time retired to Toulgas and as a consequence the smallest force in the expedition, the Vaga Column, was now in the most advanced position of these three fronts, a very dangerous and poorly chosen military position.
We immediately set fire to these huts containing their ammunition, cartridges, etc., and the subsequent explosion that followed probably gave the enemy the impression that a terrific attack was pending. As we emerged from the woods and commenced the attack upon upper Toulgas we were fully expecting stiff resistance, for we knew that many of these houses concealed enemy guns.
Tom Cotton and "Husky" Merrill, two football stars from Dartmouth, were in charge of the "Y" points on the Dvina advanced front, and whatever success the "Y" attained in that vicinity belongs primarily to their credit. They ended an eventful career in the spring of 1919 by getting captured when the Bolsheviks and Russian mutineers staged a coup d'etat at Toulgas and captured the village.
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.
General Ironside Makes Expedition Aim Defensive Bolsheviki Help Give It Character Toulgas Surprise Attack Nov. 11th By Reds Canadian Artillery Escapes Capture We Win Back Our Positions "Lady Olga" Saves Wounded Men Heroic Wallace Cudahy And Derham Carry Upper Toulgas By Assault Foukes A Jubilant Bonfire Many Prisoners Ivan Puzzled By Our War Bolo Attack In January Fails Dresing Nearly Takes Prisoner Winter Patrolling Corporal Prince's Patrol Ambushed We Hold Toulgas.
Over on the Dvina during the months of March and April, "B" and "C" Company were still holding forth at Toulgas and Kurgomin far up the river. They were daily employed in patrol and defensive duty. The Bolo had acquired a healthy respect for these positions after his terrible repulses on this front during the winter.
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