HARD FIGHTING ON AMERICAN FRONT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 44, Issue 13604, 31 July 1918, Page 5

HARD FIGHTING ON AMERICAN FRONT.

(Router's Teleersma.) (Received Wednesday, at 10.20 a^m.) LONDON, Tuesday. Router's correspondent at the American Headquarters, writing on July 29th, deals with the hard fighting leading to the final capture of Sergy by the Americans, who also captured Scringes and Roncheres. The fight for Sergy resolved itself into a fierce struggle with the Fourth Guards Division, one of the crack divisions of the German Army. The Guards swept down the hill when the Americans were reorganising their lines. All were picked, fresh men, and were determined to strike terror into the hated Yankees, with whom this was their first engagement. The Americans were overborne by the vast weight of numbers. They gave ground foot by foot to the brink of the Ourcq, but, fiercely recoiled, and drove the Germans helter-skelter at the point of the bayonet from the ruins of the village. The Germans suffered fearfully, their dead lying in heaps on all parts of the field.