Arizona republican., 1918-10-18
AMER|CANSW|N BO[SHEv|KGUN
 LIN Dv|NA RIVER
Plunge Through Tundra and
 Moss-Bearded Trees, Cap ture Trenches of Fright
 ened Russians Kill Many
Republican A. p. Leased Wire]

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE DVINA, Tuesday, Oct. 15.-(By The Associated Press)-A trench from which an annoying bolshevik pom pom had shelled our advanced positions for a week, was taken today in an assault by American troops, after a difficult march and a hot fight.
 The Americans debarked at dawn from a Wheezy old river steamer within sound of the bolshevik gun boats, shelling villages up stream. Alter trudging five miles over road deeper in mud than those in Flanders, through struggling villages and past roadside chapel, near which are the graves of four Americans killed month ago, the troops halted at noon to rest in the lower end of a shell sprinkled village. The little garrison of the hamlet had been holding off for a week, superior attacking forces aided by @ fleet of gun mounted river boats. Here a runner directed the contingent to slip immed- lately through wooded swamp to the l flank of the enemy who was encircling the village.
 Yanks Plunge Through SWamps The guides led the water soaked, mud coated soldiers single file, mile after mile. through the tundra, which one American soldier described as a big. soft pudding The soldiers jumped from one moss hummock to another, across clear, cold puddles but plunged in up to their thighs where the hum- mocks were infrequent.
 The Americans spent hours in this frigid everglade The sun was setting and the wind whipping the moss bearded trees as they reached the edge of the forest bordering the road on which stood the bolshevik trenches and 1 field guns.
 The soldiers were picking blueberries as they advanced silently. The rifle of one of the men caught in the low ] hanging limb of tree and was dis charged. All the troops Hoped face down in the swamp water and were not discovered.
 | Then they rushed quietly across a | clearing to the next forest strip. They heard the bolshevik talking and laugh ing. Behind the trees they formed a skirmish line within a hundred feet of | the enemy.
 ! BoIshevik Officer Surrenders | Suddenly they were discovered. The bolshevill shouted Shoot them; they ! dlt DtDlllQ Us lltlt Ntlt- ~ dlltll HE shots and then came a clattering all along the line, the Americans shooting hard and fast as they lay flat, huggine the ground they had cursed on the march. but which now was protecting them from the bullets Whistling over- | head.
 Then the Americans again sprane forward under fire. to within ten yards of the road. The bolsheviki attempted to rush them. The Americans fell back a few yards, firing as they went. One of the enemy ran into the arms of the Americans and surrendered, while an other, with uplifted arms, totteret queerly through the swamp in their di- rection.
 Don't shoot, he's wounded" ont American soldier shouted. The bol sheviki, who was an officer, stumbled over a moss hummoclI and fell into thu water. The Russian guides of th' Americans questioned him but h. begged all the time that the American should not kill him. He said he hat been forced to fight by the bolsheviki The kind hearted Americans lifted tn officer out of the water and thel dressed his wounds.
 Capture Trenches And Guns
 An officer nearby shouted: At then , men, they're scared of us" A smash
 ing and cracking of musketry and ma
 chine guns followed and the American
 were in possession of the trench ant
 the pom pom gun and other equipmen
 it contained.
 Two riderless horses picked thei
 way between the bodies of the dea
 bolsheviki lying in the road. One of tn bodies was that of the captain, com manding the trench. Wounded bol sheviki stood on the edge of the flores mumbling incoherently. Others wer , fleeing into woods on the America
 right firing as they ran. They wer pursued. but as darkness approache they rallied and the American line fe 5 back to the American line in tn morning.