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Show AMERICANS HELP TO SAVE AMIENS General Carey's Improvised Army With U. S. Railway Engineers Hold Line. LONDON. April 10 But for the I gallant defense put up by General Carey's improvised army in which American railway engineers played a prominent part, says the correspondent correspond-ent on the western front, of the Daily I Mail, the enemy might have pushed through to Amiens in the first few-days few-days of his great attack The impro-I impro-I vised force held an important stretch j of the front against ferocious German onslaughts. "There was no doubt in anybody's j mind that they would hold on grimly as long as breath remained in their I bodies." says the correspondent. "It was not long until it had been I in the field for some time that the i force was able to get artillery But as ! soon as they had it they certainly used it to good advantage "In ihe meantime, however, the men held the enemy back with their i bodies." The sector bopan at the river ! Somme near Sally-Laureat and extended extend-ed southwest to about the Luce river. |