finally in August, 1920,
released from hospital and prison in Russia and crippled and sick joined
American troops in Germany. His pluck and stamina must have been one
hundred per cent to stand it all those long seventeen months. His
comrade, Herbert Schroeder, of "B" Company, who was captured on the 21st
of September, has never been found. His comrades still hope that he was
the American printer whom the Reds declared was printing their
propaganda in English for them at Viatka.

Comrade George Albers, "I" Company, in November, 1918, was on a lone
observation post at the railroad front. A Bolo reconnaissance patrol
surprised and caught him. He was the American soldier who was shown to
the comrades at Kodish on the river bridge after Armistice Day. He was
afterward sent on to Moscow and went out with others to freedom. With
him went out Comrades Walter Huston and Mike Haurlik of "C" Company, who
had been taken prisoners in action on November 29th near Ust Padenga on
the same day that gallant Cuff and his ten men were trapped and all were
killed or captured. These two men survived. In this liberated party was
also Comrade Anton Vanis, of Company "D" who was lost in the desperate
rear guard action at Shegovari. Also came Comrade William R. Schuelke,
"H" Company, who had been given up for dead. And in the party was Merle
V. Arnold, American "Y" man, who had been captured in March at
Bolsheozerki. Six of our allied comrades, Royal Scots, came out with the
party. These men all owed their release chiefly to the efforts of Mr. L.
P. Penningroth, of Tipton, Iowa, Secretary of the Prisoners-of-War
Release Station in Copenhagen, who secured the release of the men by
going in person to Moscow.

With the return of Comrade Schuelke we learn that he was one of the "H"
Company patrol under Corporal Collins which was ambushed near
Bolsheozerki, March 17th. One of his comrades, August Peterson, died
April 12th in a Bolshevik hospital. His Corporal, Earl Collins, was in
the same hospital severely wounded. His fate is still unknown but
doubtless he is under the mossy tundra. His comrade, Josef Romatowski,
was killed in the ambush, comrade John Frucce was liberated via Finland
and his comrade, Earl Fulcher, as we have seen, was exchanged on the
railroad front in May.

On March 31st two other parties of Americans were caught in ambush by
the Reds who had surrounded the Verst 18 Force near Bolsheozerki.
Mechanic Jens Laursen of "M" Company