THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, MAY
1937:
WHOLESALE DESERTIONS FROM LEGION Italo-German Propaganda Has Serious Effect On French Force
LEGIONAIRES LEAVE MOROCCO DESPITE RISK OF PUNISHMENT
Widespread, desertions by Italians and Germans from the famed Fronch Foreign Legion because of Italo-German propaganda since the start of the Spanish civil war are reported in the following! -dispatch by Jean Perrigault of the United Press North African staff, who was the first reporter for an American news service to reach the Spanish colony of Ifni on the West Coast of Africa.
By JEAN PERRIGAULT
United Press Staff Correspondent
Extreme South Morocco. (By Camel Caravan and
Airplane).
"Adieu Napolcon, Heil Hitler. Viva Mussolini." These words were painted on the side of a truck from
á French Foreign Legion outpost at Foun El Hassane a few days ago, just before two legionaires deserted and tried to reach Rio de Oro in the truck:
They may well be the keynote of the entire intensive propaganda campaign from which the famous North
The famous mottled greys of Windsor which will draw the Royal coach during the Coronation proces
graph shows the team passing the castle.
African army has been suffering during the past year, sion, recently made a trini tour along the route the Royal procession will follow next Wednesday. The photo- climaxed by Chancellor Adolf Hitler's decree that any German enlisting loses his nationality.
Jewish Girls Fail As Wives
-SAYS RABBI THE modern Jewish girl is a failure as a wife, according to a famous Jewish rabbi.
. I visited many posts in a trek across the Moroccan desert and learned of the seriousness of the situation. So far the Foreign Legion is powerless to halt the propaganda. It fears that the powerful force of seven regi- ments in two divisions will rapid- ly lose Its volunteers.
Wanted: A Second-hand
Trouble In Warship Trouble In
California
San Antonio, May 10. Charles A. Demers, surgeon,
Already there has been a noticeable drop from the peak reached at the height of the world depression. The greatest dimculty lies in the fact that 80 per cent, of the legionaires are Germans and the remainder mostly sailor and accomplished lover. has postponed plans, for his
Italians, Swiss and Betglans,
German and Italian propaganda for seventh marriage. desertions and against enlistment hus
The postponement resulted from
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Paradise
Amsterdam, Apr. 25.
LOVE jealousy, spring
and the Suburb of Too-Beautiful Girls yester- day caused the police of Amsterdam quite a lot of trouble.
The Suburb of Too-Beautiful
bouring suburb of Oostzaan is not so well-blessed.
Jewish religious and educational bodies state that the cause is lack, of interest in their religion.
a fertile field, and by no means is the fact that he falled to get divorcen innugurat- neglected. Apparently on instruc- Leaders of Jewry are
from his first six wives. ing a "girls" week" as an appeal to tions from above, families of legion-
For that little oversight the gay daughters aires help by writing that if the men Lothario from Fall River, Mass., war parenta to see that their
come home at once they will get good
know anybody have more religious instruction.
Do you a second-hand Girls is Landsmeer. The neigh- jobs. This is effective since four out sentenced to Bve years in the Leaven- Judge R. M. worth Penitentiary. "Girls seem to have been neglected of every five cases gave unemploy-McMillan also fined him $1,000. to andment as the reason for enlisting.
the by their parents these days,
Demers pleaded guilty when they marry they cannot keep
sold Rabbi! The desertions of the two legion-charges, but he questioned one point battleship for sale? their homes together,"
aires by truck was typleal. They in the government's accusations.
only five M. Gollop.
were Wusliiner and Cannazoro, who
thought he whe anid he act out for Rio de Oro March 10 to divorces behind, instead of six.
"I'm not sure, but I think my first "The attendances of girls at re-return to their families. An alun wife divorced me a couple of years
was sounded at all Moroccan Sahara after 1 left her," he said. ilglous instruction are
long way posts. They were easily tracked behind the boys, particularly be
down because they imprudently left n Als first wife, he said, was Lena tween the ages of 14 and 20, ond
Edmond. He said he married her in this seems to be due to parents'
captured on the fourth day a few Massachusetts in 1822, shortly after apathy.
miles from Asa after a gun battle, I was graduated from surgical school
Because they were not too ex-in London."
The versatile, the traditional · hausted to receive
PARENTS' APATHY
#1 do not say there is anything wrong morally, but they do not go to i synagogue. The result is that during the most difficult age Jewish girls are liable to get lax and even throw religion over.
་
during
“Our......... nim Week' will be to bring back our girls to a true sense of their religious responsiblilties."
The appeal during "Girls' Week"
will bo
made
to encourage
the
adolescents who seem to lack some thing their parents have had in the
post.
Their parents can and did keep their homes. together, Jewish au
trail of
sterilized milk
eans and
were
He
Tho Spanish Government want to buy one. They are- to pay Ave million willing pounds for it.
So the boys of Oostzaan have taker to trespassing in the suburb of Landsmeer and walking away will the girls. Much to the indignation of the boys of Landsmeer.
"Hands off our
failed to have
Senor Del Vayo, Spanish Foreign Minister, stated recently in Valencia:
girls!" warnings "Our erying need is for an up-to-
any effect. So last date and powerful battleship which 38-year-old heart-will give us control over Franco's night the boys of Landsmeer decided
on direct action. punishment, they were whipped by a breaker, who also was an electrician forces in the Mediterranean,
and did & le preaching on the side, German sergeant.
wives "in Bald he wooed his languages."
all
jot
GOT HIM IN DUTCH
this
14
"We need a warship big enough and fast enough to suppress the
menace of the insurgent cruiser Canarias, to blow it out of the i-water."
'TERROR'' SHIP.. The Canarias is brand new. Her eight-Inch guns were not fitted until
thorities believe, through religious cglonaires are almost invariably ro-in dutch," he said married' Miss the war began. She is fast, casy to
life.
munœuvre, and has been a constant
Desertions of this kind were rarest in the old days, but I know of at leasi 20 coses of desertions or attempted 'Girls'
desertions from Moroccan legion out-- His stölement" to the court said that posts in, the past month alone. The
The Government already have u fact that it is due to propaganda is after leaving his first wife he mar-
the Jaime I. in 1991; Adenh Gillete in Houston in battleship.
(10,000 borne out by the great improvement ried Virginia, Dunston in Alabaina in the legionalres
Discipline is as strict as ever, but 1933; Hazei Smith in Alabama in the tons), but she is twenty-two years Gwendolyn Pitinger old, and the insurgents cancel her year; the men are extremely well-fed and same
pastor of the four-square gospel clothed. More important, for three church, in Santa Barbara, Calif., in out with her sister-ship Espana, years Morocco is
they have not had to fight, since 1934; and-wife No. 6-Clyde Alex-
pacified. now
Antonio San ander,
Kirl In any case there never was anywhom he forced in Memphis, Tenn. rebellion against discipline as the "It was
sixth wife that got me
bust fellows able to withstand the It was after he rigorous life in the desert and moun-Alexander that she and federal of talns.
cers learned of the previous mar-
She sank the Government de- riages and lack of divorces.
The low
law did not catch with him stroyer, Almirante Ferrandiz with | MILK COCKTAILS NOW! sooner, he explained to the judge be- the loss of 115 lives, sank the cargo cause he changed his name with boat Manuel (eighteen drowned), Australia, the country which ori-practically every marriage.
and holed the Government cruiser ginated the idea of milk bars, hasty wives go variously by the Libertad, thus keeping open the now made another contribution to the names of Mrs. Demers, Mrs. Courtney Straits for the transport of Moroccan total of bright ideas to increase the Hetherington, Mrs. Courtney Gouthey, troops. She has bombarded Bar- consumption of milk..
and Mrs. Maurice Pierrepont,'
he celona,
and has blown up many Mik cocktails have been invented sold.
foodships. and are
are being tried out by the re- Demers, alias Hetherington, alias freshment booths of a number of Mel- Gouthey, allas Pierrepont, was arrest-
Jaime I, recently put out of bourne sports grounds. If they prove, ed a few weeks ago In Aberdeen, action by an aerial bomb, returned popular they may become a Corona S.D. while working as an electrician last week and bombarded Malaga. tion novelty in London says Austral and making plans to marry wife No, 7. News,
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United Press.
Sam Browne's Famous Cavalry Disbands
SA
Bombay, April 25.
terror to the Government.
OWEN MOORE
NOT MAD
CAM BROWNE'S Cavalry (12th Frontier Force), the
ΑΝ regiment founded by the officer who invented the famous Sam Browne belt, is being disbanded.
Los Angeles, Apr. 25. N action alleging insanity against Owen Moore, the film actor and former- husband of Miss Mary Pick- ford, was dismissed by Los Angeles court to-day:
Result: a lot, Onally broken up by the police. Half the boys of Oostzaan to-day are walking the streets with blackened eyes and Others are in hos- wollen noses, pital with broken arms and legs,~~~
London, Apr. 27. The Prime Minister announced that the House of Commons would adjourn for the Coronation and Whitsun recess on May 6 and reassemble on May 24. -Reuter.
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It has left Jubbulpore, where it has been stationed since. 1935, for Ferozepore, and is to become a training regiment for mounted units.
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