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Show GENERAL LUDEN-D0RFF, LUDEN-D0RFF, who is antagonist antag-onist of General Byng at Cambrai, where British may be compelled to abandon part of the salient they recently-gained. recently-gained. -.-.''ft1 v ; - - ' ' 1 " . , ' c f&t.y ... X I, f g EXCITING EPISODES OF C1M1I BATTLE 50 American and Canadian Engineers Escape After Being Captured. (By the Associated Press.) . TvTTH THE BRITISH ARMY IN j 1-TtANCE, Tuesday, Dec. 4. The best of many exrlt ing episodes related in con- : nee tion with the Cambrai fighting was that involving fifty American and Ca- 1 nadian engineers, together with - some British fighting troops. These men were . out off in the German turning movement near Gouzeaucourt and were taken pris- j oner. A German escort of- twenty sol- diers or more started with them along j the road leading from Gouzeaucourt to , Cambrai. As they were proceeding disconsolately dis-consolately toward the zone of the G'er-man G'er-man prison cages, they came upon a small body of British troops who had also been rui off from their comrades and were wandering about. The British Tommies immediately charged toward them. The Germans tried to drive their ca p ti ves off t o ward Ba Vaetiuerie, but the prisoners hurled themselves them-selves upon their guards and struggled barehanded until the Tommies arrived and disposed of the Germans. The engineers and their comrades took the German rifles and worked their way back with their rescuers until they were able to reach a point where they could join the British line. A party of Americans and Canadians also had an exciting time in a motor lorry, which, coming unexpectedly upon six Germans holding the cross-roads with j machine guns, charged at full speed, tank-1 tank-1 like, bowling over the surprised enemy and escaping down the road before the Germans recovered from their shock and fright. The engineers were not. the only armv men from the' United States who did their bit during the most Intense part of the German attack at Cambrai. Xot less than ten American army medical officers were working in the British casualty station along Gouzeaucourt front In fact, thev hart been lahoring there since General Byng began his great offensive. ' . |