Show AMERICANS DISPLAY BRAVERY canadian reports engineers fought huns with crowbars and picks paris the conduct of the american engineers at was praised in n letter written by general J B seeli commanding a canadian cavalry brigade to allson cross alce presa dent of alio american chamber of commerce in london which was read friday to the american luncheon club by P B fowell the challman charl man I 1 am at home for a few days gen era seely wrote and before return ing to france I 1 can not help telling you of the extraordinarily gallant fight put up by a handful of american rail road engineers during the second phase of the battle I 1 hap bened to hear of it first hand and the facts are worth recording they were running their train for ward at dawn and laying a line in front of it when they found them selves surrounded by germans no man thought of surrendering somi fired with ribes to cover the retirement and others fought hand to hand with crowbars and picks not one mar of the party fell until wounded into the hands of the enemy |