the wise plan
of the new British Commanding General to extend no further the
dangerously extended lines, but to prepare for active defense just where
snow and frost were finding the various widely scattered forces of the
expedition. On the way back through Kaska it was learned that two of the
"H" men who had been reported missing in the fight at Kaska, but who
were in fact killed, had been buried by the villagers. They were
disinterred and given a regular military funeral, and graves marked.

Outside of daily patrols and the reliefs of platoons changing about for
rest at Onega there was little of excitement during the remainder of
October and the month of November. Occasionally there would be a flurry,
a "windy time" at British Headquarters in Onega and patrols and
occupying detachments sent out to various widely separated villages up
the valley. There seems to have been an idea finally that the village of
Kyvalanda should be fortified so as to prevent the Red Guards from
having access to the valley of the Chulyuga, a tributary of the Onega
River, up which in the winter ran a good road to Bolsheozerke where it
joined the Chekuevo road to Oborzerskaya. Wire was brought up and the
village of Kyvalanda was strongly entrenched, sometimes two platoons
being stationed there.

Captain Gevers had to go to hospital for operation. This was a loss to
the men. Here old Boreas came down upon this devoted company of
doughboys. They got into their winter clothing, gave attention to making
themselves as comfortable shelters as possible on their advanced
outposts, organized their sleigh transport system that had to take the
place of the steamer service on the Onega which was now a frozen barrier
to boats but a highway for sleds. They had long winter nights ahead of
them with frequent snow storms and many days of severe zero weather. And
though they did not suspect it they were to encounter hard fighting
during and at the end of the winter.

X

"G" COMPANY FAR UP THE PINEGA RIVER

Reds Had Looted Villages Of Pinega Valley--Winter Sees Bolsheviks
Returning To Attack--Mission Of American Column--Pinega--Pinkish-White
Political Color--Yank Soldiers Well Received--Take Distant
Karpogora--Greatly Outnumbered Americans Retire--"Just Where Is Pinega
Front?"

In making their getaway from Archangel and vicinity at the time the
Allies landed in Archangel, the Reds looted and robbed and carried off
by rail and by steamer much stores of