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Show BOYS DELIGHTED WITH THE FIGHT ! Young American Corporal Kills Seven Germans in Close Fight July 4. i i I LONDON, July 5. The Americans who took part in the fighting on Thursday at Villers Brconneux were delighted with their share in the battle, bat-tle, says the Router's correspondent at British headquarters telegraphing from tho front. He says they were quite new to any sort of warfare and described the barrage fire as equal to tho finest P'ourth of July celebration. Young Corporal Kills Seven A young corporal only twenty-one years old, although too badly wounded j to be taken immediately to the hospital hos-pital and in great pain, gave his experience ex-perience with relish, the correspondent correspond-ent says. The American had killed seven Germans, which he considered to be more than fair equivalent to his wounds. The young American's story follows: "With a few others I was working around a corner of Valre when I camu across some German machine guns in a wheat field. They were firing some special type of bullet which is used against tanks. One of these wounded mo in the thigh. I nevertheless neverthe-less crept close enough to throw a bomb which fell on one of tho guns and killed all four members of its crew. I saw a man running from behind be-hind the gun toward a dug-out and I followed and shot him. "As I was retrnclng my steps, a sixth German stole up from behind and made a thrust at me with his bayonet I was again wounded but the German paid for his exploit .with his life. I received my third wound from a German Ger-man whom I overcame just before fainting from pain and loss of blood Mere Boy Has Adventure The correspondent tells of another mere boy who described his adventure in the fight He had been in some severe combats, when the troops carried car-ried the trenches beyond Hamcl, and had been badly wounded in the leg. While he was lying helpless, two Germans Ger-mans ran at him with fixed bayonets. Leaning down with his head on his rifle he managed to pull tho trigger and a bullet went through the nearest German who was about a dozen yards away. The other still came on and the young man managed to rise, parry the German's bayonet thrust and bring the stock of his rifle down on his opponent's op-ponent's head. A searching party found him lying there with the two Germans beside him. |