Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-09

During the recent Christmas
Roll Call Drive for new members
and renewal of membership for
the Red Cross, a number Of sup
posedley intelligent people re-
framed from joining on the
ground that the 4war is over and
the necessity Of further Red Cross
work is ended" However. to
1.-THE credit of our community be
lit said there were but few who
entered this plea; their real rea-
son was the time-old stingyness.
But is the waroyer? The fight
ion the western front is, but in
the frozen depths of northern
Russia there is a heroic little army
of American troops fighting to-
the death with the murderous
Russian Bolsheviki. And big
fighting is yet to be done, on a
large scale, too, before the world
is made safe. The Bolsheviki
anarchists must be subdued and
Russia saved, before the rest of
the world can revert to its peace
full ways.
Read this Associated Press &C
count of the recent fighting in
northern Russia:
With the Allied Army of the Dvina.
Saturday, Jan. 4.----American troops,
fighting desperately near Kadish, have
driven back Bolsheviki troops Which made
an advance there. 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.
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.
H On Tuesday the Bolshevists opened
terrific fire from three to six-inch guns
and launched counter-attack against
the buildings held by Americans in Kadish
So hot was the artillery fire that the
Americans were withdrawn temporarily
from the village. 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
frozen ground spread their zones of
destruction twice as far as they would I'M
der normal conditions.
Later, under the protection of artillery
fire, American detatchments again swept
forward and reoccupied the town. The
men engaged in the advance were from
infantry 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 advance made
by Americans late in October before they /
retired north of Kadish
In this sector allied forces advanced on
snow shoes 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 I
arctic footgear. The battle with the ele- :
ments makes the fighting here very diff
cult.
Do you think those American ;
boys who are fighting in below
zero weather and waist-deep snow !
worthy of your little Red Cross :
dollar? The Christmas Roll Call q
IS ended, but the Red Cross q
books are still open for new :
All it takes to join is >
/ heart and a dollar; you have 2
he heart: now send the dollar to l
!. LeGrand Everett, the local !
treasurer, and then you will rest ?
EASIER in having performed a per- Y
jectly plain duty. .
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