Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-06
AMERICANS DEFEAT
BOLSHE:V|K HORDES
Battle at Kadish Is Fought in
Snow From Two to Four
Feet Deep.
DISCOVER MUTILATED BODIES
Fighting Men Enraged by Proofs
of Barbarity of Boil
shevik Forces.
DISCOVER MUTILATED BODIES
rBy Associated Press. !

By Associated Press.}
WITH THE ALLIED ARMY OF THE.
DNINA. January 5.-American troops,
fighting desperately near Iadish. have
driven back Bolshevik troops which
made an advance there. The Boil
sheviki also launched attacks on the
Omega sector and bombarded the allied
front. The Americans came into bat
tie along the Petrograd road and in
the frozen swamps that border it, The
battle was fought in snow from two
to four feet in depth
American forces captured Kadish last
Monday after display OF gallantry
thai that evoked the admiration of the al
been @ taken of the American perie cao Woundeds led
and the body OF an American officer
was taken back 100 miles by sledgc
burial There were some casualties on
Monday, but they were small in COM
parison to those inflicted upon the
On Tuesday the Bolshevil<i opened
terrific fire from three and inch
guns and LAUNCHED countera tack
cans in kadish. So hot was the ar
tillery fire that the americans were
Withdrawn temporarily from the vii
lage. The line, however, was not taken
back very far, and the new positions
We're, were firmly 2 =, ,t held. The ene,ny did not
fire from the American guns made the
place untenable. Shells falling on the
frozen ground spread their zones of
destruction twice-as far as they would
under normal conditions.
AMERICAN FORCES REOCCUPY
THE TOWN OF kADISH
Later. under the protection of ar
.ilieTy nhiry IRE; fire; ,AmeriSsan detaehments
the town. The men engaged in the
advance were from infantry and trench
mortar units. This morning word came
heHuOuarterS l,n {,,
positions are now 400 meters south Of
the village which is the line mark
Americans late i'm October, before they
retired to the north OF Kadish. Here
and there are graves where are buried
that went on during the first advance
They are not many in number. but,
for the troops involved. they glve ,evi.
going ON here. The Boisheviki are
Where 16 e hold sieS thsiS position nfoe nam e'se
The PetroSrad foad leads southwark
70 Plese etsEaya, p large village on the
base Sof operations at the kadish and
omega fronts.
BOLSHEViK ARTILLERY
DOES LITTLE DAMAGE
Allied positions on the Omega front
near the village OF Pechura were at
tackled by the enemy Friday. This at
tack was centered on Russian naval
brigade, which held its positions. in
dieting heavy losses without. -appar-
railway the Bollsheviki have for the
tilery iire, and nave brought an ar
mored train into action. Little dam
age apparently was done to the allied
positions. On the other hand an allied
shell struck an enemy barracks, doing
In this sector allied forces advanced
days ago. Beneath the snow was an
unfrozen swamp. and the men often
sank into the mud up to their waists
IN spite of their Arctic footgear. The
battle with the elements makes the
nGhting here very difficult.
BODIES OF FIVE AMERICANS
Arc BADLY MUTILATED
are mutilating allied wounded and dead
came TO headquarters in n report from
Lieutenant Colonel Cor5erly, who was
vicinity of Shenkursk on November 30
Americans were the victims. according
to the report. \ patrol OF sixty Amer
prised early on September 30 by
force OF about 700 Bolsheviki. Seven
Americans were killed and seven others
were missing after the fight. Follow
ing is the report of Lieutenant-C Colonel
Corherly AS to the condition OF the
bodies bodies round r ID after the engagement. the
No. Lieutenant, head smashed
with AK;
w. "SOTpOTai, neau so smashed
with AK that only parts OF the face
remained.
mo. s-corporal, head smashed in
with AK and arms and legs broken by
blows. apparently by blunt side of az.
NO. 4-Private, head smashed with
NO. 5-Private. head smashed and
throat cut open, apparently with aX."
ENEMY TRY TO MAKE
AMERICANS DESERT
In the meantime the Bolsheviki are
carrying on propaganda endeavorinG
TO prove ihey treat prisoners kindly
Late last week an enemy patrol in the
vicinity of Kadish shouted across mo
mans land" that they had prisoners
10 exchange. American officers went
forward to investigate. and a; safe
distance from the American troops the
Bolsheviki produced two men. one an
American and the other a Scotchman.
Instead OF offering them for exchange
they said they would "fatten and treat
kindly any other Americans or Scotch
whisked the tw6 prisoners back into
the woods.
The discovery of mutilat ed bodies at
Shenkursk has brought a new spirit
10 the Americans, who are now fight
ing mad.
Yesterday the fighting about Kadish
apparently had ceased except for spas
modic artillery action. The headuuar-
ter report said:
The situation is unchanged in all
sectorsl"