was hit by a
small H. E. shell. The others were considerably shaken up, and pulled
back, reporting Edvinson killed, that he had gone up in the air one way,
and the Lewis gun the other. We established the post a little farther
back and went out at dusk to get Edvinson's body. Much was the surprise
of the party when he hailed them with, "Well, I think she's all right."
He had collected himself, retrieved the Lewis gun, taken it apart and
cleaned it and stuck to his post. The shelling and sniping here had been
quite heavy. His action was recognized by the British, who awarded him a
Military Medal, just as they did Corporal Morrow who was instrumental in
reoccupying and holding an important post which had been driven in early
in the engagement. Corporal Dreskey and Private Lintula also
distinguished themselves at this point.

Here we may leave "B" Company and the Scots and Russians making a
fortress of Toulgas on the left bank of the Dvina. The Reds were busy
defending Plesetskaya from a converging attack and not till snow clouds
gathered in the northern skies were they to gather up a heavy force to
attack Toulgas. We will now turn to the story of the first battalion
penetrating with bayonets far up the Vaga River.

IV

DOUGHBOYS ON GUARD IN ARCHANGEL

Second Battalion Lands To Protect Diplomatic Corps--Colonel Tschaplin's
Coup d'Etat Is Undone By Ambassador Francis--Doughboys Parade And
Practice New Weapons--Scowling Solombola Sailors--Description Of
Archangel--American Headquarters.

With the arrival of the American Expeditionary Force, the diplomatic
corps of the various Allied nations which had been compelled to flee
north before the Red radicals that had overthrown the Kerensky
provisional government, asked for troops in the city of Archangel itself
to stabilize the situation.

The second battalion of the 339th under command of Major J. Brooks
Nichols disembarked at Smolny Quay at four o'clock of the afternoon of
September 4th, the same day the ships dropped anchor in the harbor. A
patrol was at once put out under Lieut. Collins of "H" Company. It was
well that American troops were landed at once as will prove evident from
the following story.

The new government of Archangel was headed by the venerable Tchaikowsky,
a man who had been a revolutionary leader of the highest and saneest
type for many years. He had lived for a period of years in America, on a
farm in Kansas, and had been a writer of note in Ru