"LET US SWEAR TO DIE."
GERMAN ARMY ORDER! j HOW THE HUNS REPLIED. I ! - " Tim-ea " unci Sydney " Smi : ' Services. | (.Received October 7, 0 a.m.) : LONDON, October (>. A French wireless message says that | on September 22 General you Fleck, j ) commanding a portion of the army in j the Champagne, issued the following j order: ''Comrades, let us swear each to die rather than .surrender. Let us J throw back the enemy at tho point of our bayonets and pelt them with hand j grenades, and thus our first line will be ! a wall of steel/' j | The German army's reply was twenty- j five thousand surrenderees. J i
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11512, 7 October 1915, Page 1
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