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other meetings were not quite so formal. At one time the excited Bolos
forgot their own men and the enemy who were parleying in the middle of
No Man's Land, and started a lively artillery duel with the French
artillery. At another time the Americans' Russian Archangel Allies got
excited and fired upon the Bolshevik soldiers who were sitting under a
white flag on the railroad track watching the American captain come
towards them. Happy to say, there were no casualties by this mistake.
But it sure was a ticklish undertaking for the Americans themselves
later in the day to walk out under a flag of truce to explain the
mistake and inquire about the progress of the prisoners exchange
conversations going on. At Vologda, American, British and French
officers were guests of the Bolshevik authorities. Their return was
expected and came during the first week of May.

One American soldier, Pvt. Earl Fulcher, of "H" Company, and one French
soldier were brought back and in exchange for them four former Bolshevik
officers were given. Report was brought that other soldiers were being
given their freedom by the Bolshevik government and were going out by
way of Petrograd and Viborg, Finland. It was learned that some American
soldiers were in hospital under care of the Bolshevik medical men. Every
effort was made by military authorities in North Russia to clear up the
fate of the many men who had been reported missing in action and missing
after ambush by the Reds who cut off an occasional patrol of Americans
or British or French soldiers.

But the Bolshevik military authorities were unable to trace all of their
prisoners. In the chaos of their organization it is not surprising. We
know that our own War Department lost Comrade Anthony Konjura, Company
"A" 310th Engineers, while he was on his way home from Russia, wounded,
on the hospital ship which landed him in England. There his mother went
and found him in a hospital. An American sergeant whose story appears in
this volume, says that while he was in Moscow six British soldiers were
luckily discovered by the Red authorities in a foul prison where they
had been lost track of. Even as this book goes to press we are still
hoping that others of our own American comrades and of our allies will
yet come to life out of Russia and be restored to their own land and
loved ones.

Corporal Arthur Prince, of "B" Company, who was ambushed and wounded and
captured in March, 1919, at Toulgas was,