Khabarovsk. Amur River District

January 1919

New Years

Today we had one of those good meals, this time we had turkey, which was supposed to be for thanksgiven but we did not care as long as we knew that we was going to have a good meal. The whole command was to have two weeks off except them that happen to get on detail. We got a pass, three of us, to go over to Red River Prison Camp. We had some friends that we had not seen since we left Frisco over at the camp, so we started over there on the second of the year. At daylight we were off for Red River Camp. We had a hike of 21 miles across the Amur and Sungari Rivers. We were loaded down with our packs and rifles and a hundred rounds of ammunition. We had a poor day to go in as it was snowing pretty heavy, but we had some mountains off to the right to guide us. We did not know how cold it was but we were sure cold. I froze my nose twice and my friend froze his ears. He did not even know it till I told him his ears were white.