The Nenana daily news., 1919-06-24

campaign against the Bolshevlkl Tn Northern Russia are related in the subjoined letter from The Asso- ciated Press correspondent who has Covered" the fighting in these near-Arctic regions from the be- ginning.
 1 ARCHANGEL.-It was largely due to the bluff of a young Rus sian naval officer in command of one of the little Allied steamers on the Dvina river that the original Allied expedition up that river from Archangel was not wiped out by the Bolsheviki in the early phases of the Northern Russia campaign.
 The Dvina expedition, 133 strong, went poking its way nonchalantly up the broad river aboard two or three funny looking river steamers, on which field pieces and machine guns had been mounted. The Bol- sheviki had taken the best boats, Mississippi type of paddlewheelers. with them in their flight.
 i The famous 133 reached Beres- niki, nearly 200 miles south oi Archangel, at the junction of the Vaga river with the Dvina, without firing a shot. One night, all of i sudden, three or four Bolshivik side wheelers, mounting big guns, came around the bend in the river and started trouble. When we fired our cannon, they fell through the thin decks into the staterooms of our steamers.
 A young Russian naval officer, in command of one of our little ships, with his own gun out of ac- tion, stood pat, with the useless muzzle turned toward the biggest of the enemy's ships, and barred the channel while our other ships retreated.
 Then our river expedition got the glad news that a British moni- tor, sent all the way from the Bel gian coast, was on the way to help i them. The monitor crawled along { the sandbars and got to Beresniki. , The colonel in command of the river land forces told me about it, a few weeks later, when I went up to his sector of the front. It was Isomething of a tragedy this first 1 episode of the monitor, but the col onel couldn't help laughing about it.
 "The monitor steamed up," the colonel said, land it's captain was rowed over to my headquarters ship. The navy was on the job and so, naturally, all was over. He didn't want to stop a minute.
 'Where,' he shouted, is the enemy fleet, and which is the way to Kotlass?'
 "And then the monitor chugged off in the direction of the Bol- shevik ship around the bend in the river. It didn't find the enemy fleet, and it certainly was a long way from Kotlass, when a Bolshevik land battery, masked in the woods on the river bank, dropped big shell into the monitor, putting It out of commission and sending it back to Beresniki."
 It was in this episode of the mon itor that a young British naval surgeon performed one of the feats of bravery and self-denial that are continually taking place in this war. With one eye shot out and with blood nearly binding the other, this young surgeon calmly and success fully attended to the monitors 5 wounded until he fell exhausted. ! On the river our forces had reached Beresniki, on the railroad :; little command of French had battled its way nearly one hundred miles to Oboserskaya, and, in the swampy tundra between the railroad and the river another party, in cluding some American sailors, was lost in the mud, when reinforce ments, in the shape of three trans ports loaded with American infantry