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Shenkursk Surrounded By Bolsheviki Enemy Artillery Outranged Ours British General At Beresnik Orders Retreat Taking Hidden Trail We Escape Shenkursk Battalion Of Russians Fails Us Description Of Terrible March Casting Away Their Shackletons Resting At Yemska Gora Making Stand At Shegovari Night Sees Retreat Resumed Cossacks Cover Rear Holding Ill-Selected Vistavka Toil, Vigilance And Valor Hold Village Many Days Red Heavy Artillery Blows Vistavka To Splinters In March Grand Assault Is Beaten Off For Two Days Lucky Cossacks Smash In And Save Us Heroic Deeds Performed Vistavka Is Abandoned.
Though we were well out of range of his guns the boom of the artillery acted as an added incentive to each tired and weary soldier and with anxious eyes searching the impenetrable forests we quickened our step. At 9:00 a. m. we arrived at Yemska Gora on the main road from Shenkursk, where an hour's halt was made.
We later learned from a prisoner who was captured some days later that a strong raiding party had been dispatched to raid the town of Yemska Gora on the line and to cut the wires.
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