Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-06
Line Now Advanced to Posi-
lions Held When BoIsheyiki
Advanced Last Autumn
Driving YankS From Town,
IMPORTANT ROAD Is
MENACED BY YANKS
BoIsheyiki Launch Attack on
Omega Front But Are Re-
pulsed By Allied Force In
cIuding Russian Brigade,

thY MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIREl
With the Allied Army of the Dvina,
Jan. Saturday, by the Associated
Press American troops. fighting
desperately near Kadish, have driven
back Bclshevlst 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 gallant
ry that evoked the admiration of the
allied commanders. Special care mas
been taken of the American wounded
and the body of an American officer
was taken back 100 miles by sledge
ana 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.
On Tuesday the I3olshevists opened
a terrific fire from three and siN-inch
guns and launched a counter-attack
against the buildings held by Ameri-
cans in t<adisb So hot was the artil-
1arv fire that the Americans were
u,ifhdrau,n tennora,,iIv from the viii
age THE line however was not TAX
~ ,s verg far and the 9ew posi-
sare IN raGv' belt. sehe eli 9ny dia
~ ~ nnv XII nsh becasec tse bar
ss zit.oyn ~-Sffe anisffra1r guns
rd he nlace untenable. Shells
+liT IN the frozen ground spread
, nas Of destruction twice MS far
10 tbnv ,yonld under normal condi-
tions. Later. under the protection of
artillery fire American detachments
arain went forward and reoccupied
the town. The men engaged in the
advance were from infantry and
franch mortar units This morning
word came from headauarters that
The Americap nositions are now 400
noeters south Of the village which is
Tho lina marrying the fllrthest advance
made hv the Americans late in Octo-
her hnfore thew retired to the north
of Kadish. Here on(; there are graves
,,,hara ara bnriad Americans who fell
in the strugeIe that went on during
tho first ADVANCE They are not many
in number hut for the troops in
voIvad thew give evidence that the
Americans have becn in the hardest
f;rhtiry that has been Going on here.
Tha PoIshevists are fighting more
sayooa,v baro than elsewhere to hold
thair nositions
The petroprad road leads south
uard 70 rIesetsl,aya +, large village
on tha voIoedo railway which is the
anan,v,e hose of onerations nj the Ka
disb and Onoea fronts
RoIsbcyiki Attack.
Auios nos;tions on the omega front
roar H. ,iIlape of pecbura were at
tonued bv tbe enemv Yesterday. This
attack was centered on a Russian ma
,,aI hrieade which held its nositions,
inf,ict;np heovv losses without appar-
ar,t,v 1os;ng q man on the Vologda
railwov The Rolshevists have for the
nast three y,avs kent IN a strong artil-
lery fire and have brought an armored
,rain into action little damage ap-
norentIv was done 10 the allied pos-
lions On The other hand. an allied
shell struck an enemy barracks doing
areat damage
In this sector allied forces advanced
opnTcbnac nvor coft Spoty n few