ers two versts
further up the river. The following day some artillery firing. Proceeded
to front line dressing station in charge of Lieut. Christie and ten
337th Ambulance men. One from advance headquarters on left bank, British
holding front. One company of Americans and one of Scots on right bank.
Stopped at Shushuga on return, eight versts from Toulgas. Across the
river from this place is Pless where an evacuation hospital was
conducted by Capt. Watson, R. A. M. C., with fourteen British and one
American Ambulance man, used as a cook and interpreter. Stretchers used
for beds. Casualties held here for two or three days and evacuated by
sled to Beresnik about fifty versts to the rear. At Shushuga there were
two Ambulance men conducting a first aid station. Village held by one
platoon of Americans.

Returned to Beresnik making a change of horses at Chamova and Ust Vaga.
The latter place held by twenty-eight American engineers and about one
hundred Russians. First aid given by a Russian felcher.

Inspected wards, kitchen, food, etc. Found there was no complaint as to
treatment received. December 16th, 1918. With rations for five days left
for Archangel by sleigh, making a change of horses about every twenty
versts. Arrived at Archangel at 2:00 p.m., December 23, 1918.

XII

Armistice Day With Americans In North Russia

"B" And "D" Busy With Attacking Bolos--"L" Vigilantly Holding Front Near
Kodish--Quiet On Other Fronts--Engineers Building Blockhouses With
Willing Assistance Of Doughboys--How Was Our Little War Affected--"We're
Here Because We're Here"--No Share In Victory Shouting--"F" On Lines Of
Communication.

Armistice Day, November 11th, 1918, with American soldiers in North
Russia, was a day of stern activity for continued war. A great thrill of
pride possessed the entire force because the Yanks on the Western Front
had been in at the death of Hun militarism. The wonderful drives of our
armies under Pershing which crushed in the Hindenberg Lines, one after
another, had been briefly wirelessed and cabled up to Russia. We got the
joyful news in Archangel on the very day the fighting ceased on the
Western Front.

But the "B" and "D" Company men were too busy on Armistice Day to listen
to rumors of world peace. The Reds had staged that awful four-day
battle, told next in this story, and the American medical and hospital
men were sadly busy with thirty bleeding and dead comrades who had
fallen in defending