Murman Coast

We are bound for the North Cape and Murman Coast, where we remain until well into the cold weather--at any rate, for three months.

It was realized that practically all other Russian ports would be closed to commerce, but that the Murman Coast could still be reached by an open sea route.

On July 7, 1918, it was reported that the people of the Murman Coast had risen against the Soviet Government, declared themselves independent, and appealed to the Allies for protection.

The protest which followed was therefore compelled by German pressure, which was applied so strongly that the Soviet Government made a show of mobilizing a special army for transportation to the Murman Coast.

Tidings of their presence at a still more remote corner of the battle area came in the announcement that American marines, cooperating with British forces, had occupied a part of the Murman coast of the White Sea in European Russia.