On July 3, Companies C and D of the 31st Infantry moved against the Russian village of Kazanka with machine guns and a 37mm gun.
The operation appears in the service record of American officer Harry Humphries: “Kazanka, Siberia, July 3, 1919.” Then we have the testimony.
An American soldier wrote home about what American troops were doing. Senator Medill McCormick read his letter on the floor of the United States Senate: “The American troops, at the command of an officer, fired the houses…”