, Notty Ash, and thence to Brest, thence to the U. S.
in May to Ford Hospital. The delay in Murmansk did him no good. American
veterans of the campaign know that this is not the only case of where
sick and wounded doughboys were delayed at Murmansk, once merely to make
room for British officers who were neither wounded nor sick. Let Uncle
Sam remember this in his next partnership war.

[Illustration: Several people tending boats and fishing gear.]
ROULEAU
Hot Summer Day at Pinega Before War

[Illustration: Several people observing ice jams.]
DOUD
Dvina River Ice Jam

[Illustration: A shed in a clearing in the forest.]
WAGNER
Mejinovsky--Near Kodish

[Illustration: Six soldiers standing in the snow.]
MCKEE
Bolo General Under Flag Truce Near 445--April 1919

[Illustration: Several soldiers, some reading documents.]
U S OFFICIAL PHOTO
After a Prisoner Exchange Parley

Only on the Pinega front did the American medical officer enjoy free
action. An interesting story could be told of the American hospital and
the two Russian Red Cross (local) hospitals and the city civil hospital
which were all under control of Capt. C. R. Laird, the red-haired, where
he had any, unexcitable old doctor from Nebraska, who treated one
hundred and fourteen wounded Russian soldiers in one night.

And a romantic thread in the narrative would be the story of Sistra
Lebideva, the alleged Bolshevik female spy, who was released from prison
in Pinega by the American commanding officer and given duty as nurse in
the Russian receiving hospital. She was a trained nurse in an apron, and
a Russian beauty in her fine clothes. The Russian lieutenant who acted
as intelligence officer on the American commander's staff in
investigating the nurse's case, fell hopelessly in love with her. An
American lieutenant, out of friendship for the Russian officer, several
weeks later took the nurse to Archangel disguised as a soldier. Then the
Russian lieutenant was ordered to Archangel to explain his conduct. He
had risked his commission and involved himself in appearances of
pro-Bolshevism by disobeying an order to send the suspected nurse in as a
spy. He had connived at her escape from her enemies in Pinega, who, when
the Americans left, would have ousted her from the hospital and thrust
her back into prison. He was saved by the intercession of the American
officer and she was set free upon explanations. But the romance ended
abruptly when Sistra