Super Soldiers.
PiiiAJSK FOR NEIQfROES. Received this day, 11.15 a.m. New York, September 30. The World's correspondent with the American army says: "All France sings Hie praises of a certain contingent of negro troops from New York, who upon t'liieir arrival in Francs were green, unfit recruits. They have now' demonstrated themselves- to bo almost supersoldiers. Many of their number have received! the droix die Guorro. "I 'asked a white Colonel what lie thought of tOi'em and lie said: 'They are just as good soldier material at- the United States can produce. They have faced every hellish Hun contrivance and done everything demanded of them and they have come through with colours flying andl spirits high. " I have not seen better soldiers in this war than these negroes. The French officers are delighted with' them."
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 October 1918, Page 4
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