AMERICANS FIGHT TO DEATH ON BANKS OF OURCQ.
STERN VENGEANCE TAKEN FOR HERMAN TREACHERY. Australia^and N'Z. Cable Association. LONDON". Aug- .'.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News gives some remarkable details of t lie Americans' 18-hour battle for Sergy, on the Otircq. southeast of Ferc-en-Tardenois. No prisoners were taken. The Germans received an order to throw the Americans back to the left bank of the Ourcq, and an American battalion took an oath to be killed to the last man rather than retreat. The Germans made 14 attacks, but the Americans held firm. The Germans flew a Red Cross Sap from a ruined church at Sergy, which was a nest of machine-guns. The earliest American attackers, seeing the flag, advanced in the open, and were mown down by machine-guns. The Germans paid heavily for their ruse, their losses being terrible. Finally 300 Germans defending the Cotilnnnes Road were surrounded and exterminated by a bayonet charge.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16920, 5 August 1918, Page 5
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