The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-10
AMERICANS DRIVE
BOLSHEV|STS BACK
Fierce Fighting in the Frozen
Swamps in Russia
YANKEES REOCCuPY KADlSH
Battle In snow--Americans Forced
Temporarily To Withdraw To
Make Town UntenabIe
For Enemy.
YANKEES REOCCuPY KADIsH


With the Allied Army of the Dyina.
American troops, fighting desperate
ly near Kadish, have driven back
Bolshevist troops, which made an adj
vance there The BolsheVists also
launched attacks on the Omega sector
and bombarded the Allied front. The
Americans came into battle 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 a display Of gal,
lantry that evoked the admiration of
the Allied commanders. Special care
has been taken of the American
wounded and the body of an Ameri-
can officer was taken back 100 miles
by sledge and then shipped to Arch
angel for burial. There were some
casualties on Monday, but they were
small in comparison to these inflicted
upon the enemy.
On Tuesday, the Bolshevists opened
"a terrific fire from three and six-inca
guns and launched a counter-attaca
against the buildings held by Ameri-
cans in Kadish. So hot was the a.
tillery fire that the Americans we've
Withdrawn temporarily from the vii
lage The line, however, was nor
taken back very far and the new
positions were firmly held. The en-.
envy did not occupy Kadish because
the barrage 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 CON
ditions.
Later, under the protection of artil-
lery fire, American detachmelts again
swept forward and reoccupied the
town The men engaged in the al
vance were from infantry and trench
mortar units. This morning world
came from headquarters that the
American positions are now 400 me-
tiers south of the village which is
the line marking the furthest advance
made by the Americans late in Oeto.
Der before they retired to the north
of Kadish Here and there are graves
where are buried Americans who fell
in the struggle that went on during the
first advance. They are not many i'll
number, but for the troops involved.
they give evidence that the Americana
have been in the hardest fighting that
has been going on here. The Bolshe
visits are fighting, more savagely here
than elsewhere to hold their positions.
X The Petrograd road leads southwark
to Plesetskaya, a large village on the
Vologda railway which is the enemy's
base of operations at the Kadish and
Omega fronts.
Allied positions on the Omega front,
near the village of Pechura, were
attacked by the enemy yesterday.
This attack was conferred on a Rus
sian naval brigade, which held its
positions, infiicting heavy losses with
out apparently losing man. On the
Vologda railway the Bolshevists have
for the past three days kept up
strong artillery fire and have brought
an arnored train into action. Little
damage apparently was done to the
Allied positions On the other hand.
an Allied shell struck an enemy bar
racks, doing great damage
In this sector Allied forces advanc-
ed on snowshoes over soft snow
few 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 foot
gear. The battle with the elements
makes the fighting here very difficult.
LnAAiEP CINE G AMfAN poIzE