Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-27 | Page 2 | Cold Retards Russ Fighting

COLD RETARDS RUSSJIGHTI Rivers Are Icebound and the Bolshevik Gunboats Have Withdrawn. ARCHANGEL., Monday, Nov. 25. (By the Associated Press.) Winter has begun be-gun in earnest over the whole north Russian Rus-sian front. All the rivers are icebound I and the Bolshevist gunboats which have j long menaced the American and allied forces on the Dvlna have been forced to , withdraw. The Bolshevists, however, have j ! mounted big guns along the front south ! of the allied armies, ' Operations are limited to spasmodic ar-; ar-; tillery exchanges, but the Bolshevist : forces aie receiving heavy reinforcements. I The freezeup, while bringing relief on the I Dvina front. Increases the danger on i others, as the once-impassable Hwanrps j are now frozen, making possible bush-I bush-I whacking flank attacks by the enemy. I Tho correspondent has just returned from a trip along the front where he found a general reversal of the opinion that the Bolshevikl wouid not fight. Near Kndtsh. a fortnight ago, a body of Bolshevik Bolshe-vik infantry maintained a n ad va nee agninst strong machine-gun fire. A Kus-si;in Kus-si;in resident In talking with American soldiers regarding this attack said the Bolshevik officers threatened their men that they would be killed the next day If they failed to advance. Tho cold is so intense in some sectors of the front that the Americans slc-p with thMr machine guns rolled in the blankets with them to prevent the water-cooling chambers of the guns from freezing'.