NEGRO HEROES.
EQUAL TO THE BEST
(Received 12.15 p.m.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 30
The "New York World's" correspondent with the American army says: "All France sings the praise of a certain contingent of negro troops from New York who, upon arrival in France, were green and unfit recruits. They have now demonstrated themselves to be almost super soldiers. Many of their number have received the Croix de Guerre. I asked a white colonel what he thought of them. He said: 'They are just as good soldier material as the United States can produce. They have faced every hellish Hun contrivance and done everything demanded of them, and they have come through with colours flying and spirits high. I have not seen better soldiers in this war than these negroes. The French officers are delighted with them.' " _=A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 1 October 1918, Page 3
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