Arizona republican., 1919-01-06
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 DESPERATELY ON PETROGRAD ROAD
Forced to Retire from Kadish Push Through Deep Snow and Over Frozen Swamps - Bol- shevik Mutilation of American Dead Proven Soldiers Fighting Mad

WITH THE ALLIED ARMY OF THE DVTNA, Saturday. Jan. 4.-(By the Associated Press.) - American troops. fighting desperately near Kad ish. have driVen back bolshevik troops which made an advance 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 gallantry that evoked the admiration of the all lied commanders. Special care has been taken of the American wounded, and the body of an American officer was taken back 100 miles by sledge, and then shipped to Archangel for burial. There were some casualties on Monday. but they were small in com parison to those inflicted upon the enemy.
 Force Yankee Retirement.
 On Tuesday the bolshevists opened a terrific fire from three and siX-inch guns and launched a counter attack against the buildings held by Amer jeans in Kadish. So hot was the ar tilery fire that the Americans were withdrawn temporarily from the vil lage. The line, however, was not taken back very far, and the new positions were firmly held. The enemy did not occupy Kadish, because the barrage fire from the American guns made the place untenable. Shells falling on the fsozen ground spread their zones of destruction twice as far as they would under normal conditions. Later under the protection of artillery fire, Ameri- can detacnments again swept forward and reocCupied the town. The men engaged in the advance were from in- fantry and trench mortar units. This morning word came from headquarters that the American positions are now 400 meters south of the village. which is the line marking the furthest ad- vance made by the Americans late in October, before they retired to the north of Kadish Here and there are graves where are buried Americans who fell in the struggle that went or during the first advance. They are not many in number, but for the troops in- voived. they give evidence that the Americans have been in the hardest fighting that has been going on there
 BolsheVists Fight SavageIy.
 The bolshevists are fighting moro savagely here than elsewhere to hol( their positions.
 The Petrograd Rad leads southwart to Plesetskaya, a large village on tht Vologda railway, which is the enemy! Aase of operations at the Kadish anC omega fronts.
 Allied positions on the Omega iron near the village of Pechura, were at tackled by the enemy yesterday. Thi! attack was centered on a Russian maya brigade which held it's positions, in flicting heavy losses without appar esntly losing a man. On the Vologd; railway the bolshevists have for tn past three days kept upa strong artil lery fire and have brought an armoret train into action. Little damage ap I.arently was done to the allied posi- tiOns On the other hand an alliet shell struck >Sn enemy barracks, doinl great damage.
 In this sector allied forces advance' on snowsloes over soft snow a fev days ago. Beneath the snow was al unfrozen swamp and the men oftel sank into the mud up to their waists in spite of their Arctic footwear. Tn battle with the elements. makes tn
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