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Show AMERICANS TAKE CAUGHT IN GERMAN TURNING MOVEMENT AND ESCAPE BY LYING IN SHELL HOLES. Join Britons When They Come Up and Fight in the Ranks In Attack That Causes Huns to Beat a Retreat. London. Large numbers of American Ameri-can army engineers working on the British railways in the region of Gou-aeacourt, Gou-aeacourt, caught in, the German turning movement, escaped by lying in shell holes and prone on the ground while the British fired over .them. There they remained ntil the British were near enough to enable the . Americans to Join the ranks. Then they fought valiantly and played an important part in replying to the enemy. The British commanders command-ers refer to their valiant -beliavior with the greatest enthusiasm. Americans elsewhere took a busy Jiand In the fighting and were under hot German shell fire. Numbers of them volunteered for patrol work in the danger zone and all acquitted themselves finely. British Lines Holding. The attempt of the Bavarian Crown Prince Rupprecht by an encircling novement to nulify the brilliant advance ad-vance of the British General Byng toward Cambral has resulted apparently apparent-ly In complete failure. . Although at certain points the Ger-imans Ger-imans pierced the British lines and captured positions, men and guns, they have paid dearly for their enterprise In casualties the dead near La Vac-querie Vac-querie during the course of twelve hours having been greater In numbers num-bers than during any similar period ot fighting since the war began. Relatively the British line remains as It was before the German drive. Tactically, It is Just as strong. The enemy has again turned his attention at-tention to the lower Piave river, where large forces of infantry with machine guns have attempted to seek a lodgement lodge-ment inside the inundated triangle between be-tween the Plave and Old Piave. This Inundated region Is crossed laterally by several roads which stand just above the w-ater, and taking advantage advan-tage of this the enemy has advanced tils forces along these high stretches nnd given considerable trouble with sniping from the upper windows of farm houses. |