AMERICANS' DETERMINATION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 3 August 1918, Page 8

AMERICANS' DETERMINATION.

DIE TO A MAN RATHER THAN

RETIRE

GERMANS HEAVILY PUNISHED

MISUSE OF RED CROSS FLAG

(Received Aug. 3, 11.2 a.m.) LONDON.. Aug. 2

The Daily News' Paris correspondent j gives some remarkable details of the; Americans' forty-eight hour battle for Sergy. No prsoners were taken. The Germans received the order to throw the Americans back to th e left bank of the Ourcq. An American battalion took the oath that they would be killed to the last man rather than retreat. The Germans made fourteen attacks, but the Americans held their front. The Germans flew the Red Cross fla£ from the ruined church of Sergy, wri'ich was a nest of machineguns. The earliest American attackers, seeing the flag, advanced in the open, but were mown down by ma-chine-guns. The Germans paid heavily for their ruse. Their losses were terrible Finally three hundred Germans defending the Coulonnes road were surrounded and exterminated by the bayonet. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.