while the rest did whatever they liked. After supper Corporal Power lined his section up and called the roll. McAuley, The Long Hilander Mastin, Sydney and Toronto, Belleville, Foote, Sydney — the man with the mustache, Dateri, U.S.A.- always looking for a cigarette, Colbourne, Sydney, Macdonald, P.E. Island.

We all got to the village in line shape but some had quite a hard time finding their bunks. None of us are heavy drinkers but we all sampled Vodka and found it like Siberia; not nearly as bad as we at one time thought. Todd and Murphy met us in the village and helped Foote home. Paddy and a Red Cross man had McAuleys carcass to drag along, while Mastin, Conwell and I followed. Somebody picked up Dateri along the road and he managed to inform them that he belonged to the Signal Section, so he was home before us.]

Sunday. Feb. 9, 19.

On duty at AC and D Co. this morning. Went for a walk in the afternoon taking along some laundry which a Russian woman does for us, and for which we pay her 50 kopecks a piece. Spent a quiet evening and went to bed early. Sgt. McLean fell violently in love with a little Russian girl, who was spending Sunday at home. We gathered from her mother that she was the oldest daughter and worked all week at Vladivostok. She really

I My father told my brother Kent that some ofthe boys would wrap an army blanket around themselves and put a greatcoat on over the whole thing. Then offto the village beverage house for drinks where the sale of blanket would cover the cost. This bit oflarceny might be excused in that the soldiers were distributing much needed blankets to the freezing peasants ot‘Siben'a, The small fee could be considered to be handling and postage