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AMIDNIGHT RETREAT.

ENEMY AT ARCHANGEL OUTWITTED.

Accounts which have just reached London enable a con- nected account to be given of the withdrawal of the Allied troops on the Vaga sector of the Archangel front..

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The retirement from Shenkursk. announced in the Times an Jan- uary 31, followed repeated and determined enemy attacks. Since the date of the mail news the Bolsheviks have renewed their attach, and in the first half of this month, they made some further advance along the Vaga Reinforcements. for the Vaga front have now arrived from "Murmansk.

.. ENEMY'S NUMERICAL

SUPERIORITY.

It appears that from November last the Bolshevik forces in the Vaga region had been steadily in- creasing in size and quality, and several patrol encounters had taken place.

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On January 12 the enemy attacked the Allied positions ar Ust Padenga 18 miles south of Shenkursk) with great courage and considerable skill. He met with a gallant re- sistance from American and Cos- sack troops. who were, however. ...eventually forced to withdraw owing to the enemy's superiority in numbers. On the same date a body of the enemy, about 400 strong, attacked and drove back an Allied detachment on the River Tarnia west of Shenkursk. During the night the enemy heavily shelled the Allied posi- tions. On the 20th the enemy brought up more guns in the neighbourhood of Ust Padenga, ani shelling continued through- our the 20th and 21st.

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On the morning of the 21sthe detachment on the Tarnia river was forced back on Matveevskaya 12 miles west of Shënkursk). No infantry attacks occurred on the 22nd, but news was received of

which an enemy force advancing on the eastern flank. making the Tist Padenca position extremely precarious. The "Allied truaps" there were accordingly withdrawn to Shalosha leight miles north of Ust Padengal on the night of the 22nd-23rd: the move was carried out without loss of any stores or material except one 18-pår. gun. The next day (the 23rd) the de- tachment on the Tarnia Was driven back to Nikolejevskaya, 11 miles west-north-west of

⚫ Shenkursk..

THE WITHDRAWAL.

At 10.30 a.m. on January 24, a strong attack was launched by the Bolsheviks an Spaskos (2 miles southwest of Shenkursk) from the west, but was beaten off, as the officer commanding states. "mainly by the gun of the Can- adian Field Artillery." A com- pany of Russian Infantry carried out a counter attack and then- withdrew to Shenkursk, which 'place was heavily shelled for the rest of the day..

The "enemy next brought up (howitzers for the bombardment of | Shenkursk, which was by then virtually surrounded. Evacuation of that town by the Allied forces followed, but in view of the wounded and ciyil population it was an operation of extreme difficulty. Withdrawal began at 1.30 a. on the 25th. The oficer commanding writes: ****

"The withdrawal was made by the ordinary winter road, which runs close to Nikolelerskaya. and was known to be occupied by the enemy, in the church of which a signal lamp was geen working all night. On the east side of the road, about 1 verst two-thirds of a milel away, was a village reported to contain 200 of the enemy.... The march continued without opposition, circumstances due probably to the darkness and

to the belief it was hoped to. have inspired in the enemy, by allowing out refugees for a de-l faite number of hours, that the garrison intended to invite a siege.

All stores that could not be removed from the town were destroyed by other means than fire, which would have disclosed, our intentions to the enemy."

COURAGE AND LEADERSHIP. After the evacuation of Shen. kursk the success of which was entirely due to the courage and good leadership of the com mander of the Vaga column, à line was tiken up about 25 miles north of the town although the temperature freno red aerial extremely dif

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