The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-21
RUSS AS "GuIDESKI"
SAVES NAME FROM
BECOMING "MUDSKTf'

London. March 16.--Away up in
the frozen. snow covered Archangel
front, twenty-five Gobs (Yank sailors)
holding an isolated sector. got the
news that an allied drive was on.
Archangel was the objective,
"C'mon guys. let's GO" brayed a
self appointed leader. Up and at
'em! Give these Red Bolshys hen.'
The whole gang "Yip-yipped!" and
started out for touchdown" They
went through that Bolshy line oppo-
site EN- like Yale wading through the
prize football aggregation OF Podunk
center,
But they didn't stop at the goal
post-they kept on going. They drove
their sector of the Red line seven
miles beyond the city limits. They
became lost in a swamp and were sur
rounded by Bolsheviks. The situa-
ton was serious.
"Hain't this helluva note" chirp-
ed COB. You wise guys oughta
listened t. reason an let the poor
NUTS go after we reached Archangel.
How we gonna get outta this mess ?''
gloomily--then suddenly a grin, i've
got it."
Hey. you. Whlskers," he prodded a
ragamuffin Boishevik prisoner, You
get us ouuta this swampski so we can
stt All even PTtAk al CIdChiHE THESE
birdskis around hereski. or your name
is mudski.''
The Russ an showed the way out of
the swamp and the French came up
with reinforCements helping the
Yanks TO escape.
The story WAS brought to London
and given first-hand to the Universal
by some of the Fobs who participated
in the stunt. They landed here with
some half hundred other Americans
sailors who arrived from Katherine
Harbor, Murmansk and Archangel
They are the real veterans OF the
United States navy in. Attic waters,
for they have been on convoy and land
duty around Northern Russia since
last May. They are the remnant of
the historic Olympias crew detailed
for this service on the first cruise of
an American warship so far north in
sixty-four years.
The party which arrived here In
cIude:
Lieutenant Ander ]. Norgaard. OF
St, Croix. Virkin Islands: Chief Boat
SWANS Mate Frank Lafourcade
Charleston. s. c.; George Lee Ander
son, machinst mate, first class, Kings
Vile. Md; Ray j, Aman. machanist
mate, first class Fort Wayne, Ind:
C.. w, Byers, fireman, first class,
Weatherford, Texas: r. X. Berry. fire
man, FIorance. Miss, James r. Camp
bell, water tender. Greenfield. O.; Her.
man X. Christopher, quartermaster.
Boston, Mass: Walter Crawford, FIRE
man, Raleigh. n. c.; Howard f. Camp
bell. seaman warm : Springs, Va;
Claude T. Carter. fireman, Franklin,
Ky; John T.. Dowd. fireman first
class. Denver, Col; Fred. p De Lair.
fireman. Norfolk, Va; Lloyd Fluharty,
runners mate, Manson, Iowa: Roy
Raymond Kerstead seaman. Pressure
Isle, Me-; Leo kr0pa, fireman, Nape-
vile. IN: Walter II. Landers, fire.
man. Athens, Ca +. II. Lam phere.
machinst mate, Lynn, Mass; William
Malice, fireman, Amsterdam. n. Y;
Waiter w. Mason seaman. Lynn,
Mass: John Murray, engineer, Chi
cago, H.. Ricardo Oasn, mess boy.
Moncade, kissimmee Fla; Joseph
.5uanlon, firelnan, Fakeueld, Mass
j. Stika, seaman, first class,
Chicago, ILL.,. Arthur Stierlen, fireman.
first class, LINDEN, Wash; Ford Stude,
baker. radio electrician, Dayton, O.;
William e. Twaddle, seaman. Tulare.
Cal; Walter Il. Thompson, cook. Kan
san City; AseIino Viera, seaman, New
Bedford. Mass ; Joseph ". Wood fire.
man, Mount Pleasant, Tenn.
Their first task after they arrived