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Show I American Engineers Gallantly ! j Fight, and Die at Cambrai J II WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN I FRANCE, Wednesday, Dec. 6. How 1 American engineers gallantly fought I and died with their British comrades ' in arms on the British front before 1 Cambrai last week was told today in a semi-official statement, I "Two and one-half companies of rail way engineers," the statement says, "with a strength of sight officers and 3G5 men were encamped at Fins on November 30, having completed their work in the neighborhood- At 6:30 four officers and 2S0 men went to 1 Gouzeaucourt, arriving at 7 o'clock j and starting to work with Canadian engineers, Tho entire contingent was 1 under a Canadian major and an Ameri-; Ameri-; can captain. The area was three miles in the rear of tho front line and none of the troops were armed. I "At 7:15 o'clock German barrage fire moved on Gouzeaucourt after ' heavy shelling to the east. At 7:30 a ' general retirement was ordered and it j was affected with some difficulty, due I to the artillery, machine gun and airplane air-plane fire. A number of losses were sustained at this time and also among the men who, cut off by the German advance, had taken refuge in dugouts. Some of these men who had been cut off succeeded in joining British combatant com-batant units and fought with them during dur-ing the day. Meanwhile there was active ac-tive shelling against Fins and tho men there were ordered to scatter in the fields. Men Told to Dig In. "As the men returned to camp they were assembled under nrmB and instructions in-structions were asked from British headquartors. At 3 o'clock they were instructed to dig and hold tho trenches and the men moved up and started work shortly afterward. At 6 o'clock the trenches were finished sufficiently for tho entire command and division headquarters directed a withdrawal to Camp and that the men be hold In readiness to man tho trenches. Two small parties were sent out to repair a break in the track and in transferring transfer-ring ammunition to another point. Tho list of casualties is relatively small and will be Issued tomorrow. It is stat- ed by officers that tho conduct of tho regiment was most -satisfactory. They c praise its coolness under fire and tho ability of the men to work without In- jj torruptlon is regarded as most com- o mendable." A American Aviators Busy. (j Amorlcan army aviators arc now working with the artillery and the re- ft suits so far have boon most satisfac- tory to both branches of the service. ? Yesterday American airmen flow over a certain section of tho American zone y and took photographs. The artillery ? today started firing at five separato a targets located from tho photographs, v The aviators took to the air and tho I observers watched the rosults of the R firing which was at a considerable J range. r The first shells fell wide of the. H mark, but within four minutes the ob- servers wore able to correct this with a wireless messages to tho batteries so H that tho shells began to hit the loca- ? tion. Later the observers had practice 1 in locating the other "enemy" with more or less success. |