AMERICAN GRIT.
SYDNEY, Sept. 4. The American' consular wireless .moss;itu> received m Sydney yesterday says that American cuurage- and; grit were exemplified on Saturday night, when units at, the front repulsed a German raid without serious loss. One American .siLstaiueM !d machine-gun bullet wounds, but fought on. He probably holds the American record for simultaneous wounds. Another American was badly -wounded m the stomach from fragments of a grenade, aJid had his nose blown off; lie continued! to fight, and had almost to be forced to a dressing station.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14712, 18 September 1918, Page 9
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