In the fight which followed two of the scouting party were killed.

One of the Negroes escaped the other being taken prisoner.

During the fight two of the Germans left their comrades and ran to the protection of their own trenches, but these it was explained, were young soldiers and untrained.
The reward of 400 marks subsequently was divided among the remaining six Germans for capturing the one French Negro.
The 93rd division, which was made up of the 369th, 370th, 371st and the 372nd regiments of infantry, was put into service green, so green they did not know the use of rockets and thought a gas alarm and the tooting of sirens meant that the Germans were coming in automobiles.

The New York regiment came largely from Brooklyn and the district around West 59th street in New York City, called San Juan Hill in reference to certain notable achievements of Negro troops at a place of that name in the Spanish-American war.
They learned the game of war rapidly.

The testimony of their officers was to the effect that it was not hard to send them into danger--the hard part being to keep them from going into it of their own accord.