THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 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 French 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 Napoleon, Heil Hitler. Viva Mussolini." These words were painted on the side of a truck from
a 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
African army has been suffering during the past year, siph, recently made a trial tour along the route the Royal procession will follow next Wednesday. The photo- The famous mottled greys of Windsor which will draw the Royal coach during the Coronation proces- climaxed by Chancellor Adolf Hitler's decree that any German enlisting loses his nationality.
Jewish Girls Fail
As Wives
4
I visited many posts in a trek across the Moroccan desert and learned of the serinusness of thei situation. So far the Foreign Legion is powerless to halt the propaganda. It fears that the
graph shows the team passing the castle.
Wanted: A Second-hand
powerful force of seven reg Trouble In
Trouble In Warship Trouble In
ments in two divisions will rapid-:
ly lose its volunteers.
Atrendy there has been a noticeable
-SAYS RABBI drop from the peak reached at the
THE modern Jewish girl is a failure as a wife, according to a famous Jewish rabbi.
Jewish religious and educational bodies state that the cause is lack
of interest in their religion.
height of the world depression. The
greatest difficulty lies in the fact that
Italians, Swiss and Belgians.
California
San Antonio, May 10.
80 per cent. of the legionaires are Charles A. Demers, surgeon, Germany and the remainder mostly sailor and accomplished lover has postponed plans for his German and Italian propaganda for seventh marriage. desertions and against enlistment has
The postponement resulted from)
o ferille field, and by no means is the fact that he falled to get divorces Leaders of Jewry are inaugurat-neglected. Apparently on
instruc- ing a "girls" week" as an appeal to tions from above, families of legion- from his first six wives.
For that little oversight the gay parents to see that their daughters alres help by writing that if the men Lotharic from Fall River, Mass., was have more religious instruction, come home at once they will get good sentenced to five years in the Leaven-
"Girls seem to have been neglected by their parents these days, and when they marry they cannot keep their homes together," said Rabbl M. Gollop.
jobs. This effective since four out;
ho said.
£5,000,000 OFFERED,
MUST BE FAST
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 M. Do you know anybody
with a second-hand | Girls is Landsmeer. The neigh- bouring suburb of Oostzaan is not so well-blessed.
Oostzaan have So the boys of taken to trespassing in the suburb of Landsmeer and walking away with the girls. Much to the indignation of the boys of Landsmeer.
of every five cases gave unemploy- McMillan also fined him. $1,000. worth Penitentiary. Judge IL ment us. the reason for enlisting.
the Demers pleaded guilty to The desertions of the two leglon-charges, but he questioned one point battleship for sale?
Не The Spanish Government aires by truck was typical. They in the government's accusations. were Wushiner and Cannazoro, who said he thought he was only five
want to buy one. They are of six. PARENTS' APATHY
set out for Rio de Oro March 19 to divorces beliind, instead
five million pay "I'm not sure, but I think my first willing to "The attendances of girls at re-return to their families. An alarm ligious instruction are a long, way was sounded at all Moroccan Sahara wife divorced me a couple of years pounds for it.
casily
tracked after I left her, behind the boys, particularly be posts. They were
Senor Del Vayo, Spanish Foreign down because they imprudently left His first wife, he said, was Lena
a tween the ages of 14 and 20, and trail of sterilized mile cans and were Edmond. He said he married her in Minister, stated recently in Valencia: this seems to be due to parents'
"Hands off our girls" warnings: Massachusetts in 1022, "shortly after "Our crying need is for an up-to- captured on the fourth day a few apathy.
miles from Asn after a gun battle.
effect. So last! I was graduated from surgical school
date and powerful battleship which failed to have any "I do not say there is anything| Because they were not too ex-in London."
the traditional.
The versatile, 36-year-old heart-will give us control over Franco's night the boys of Landsmeer decided wrong morally, but they do not go to i hausted to receive
on direct action. synagogue. The result is that during punishment, they were whipped by a breaker, who also was an electrician forces in the Mediterranean.
and did a little preaching on the side,
"We need a warship big enough Result: a riot, finally broken up the most difficult age Jewish girls German sergeant.
the police. Half are liable to get lax and even throw
the boys of and fast enough to suppress they Desertions of this kind were rarest Bald he wooed his wives "in 14
languages."
the religion over.
in the old days, but I know of at least
menace of the Insurgent cruiser Oostzaan to-day are walking "Our
during Girls'-20-cases-of-desertions or attempted
- Canarias, -ko-blow-it-out-of-the streets with blackened eyes and Others are in hos- pwollen noses. Week' will be to bring back our desertions from Moroccan legion out- His statement to the court sold that
water," girl to a
pital with broken arms and legs, true sense of their posts in the past month alone, The after leaving his first wife he mar religious responsibilities."
fact that it is due to propaganda is led Virginia Dunston in Alabama The appeal during "Girls' Week" out by the great improvement in 1931; Adeals Gillete in Houston in will be
the leglonaires' lot. dolescents who seem to lack some Discipline is ns sicly we ever and same year: Gwendolyn Pilinger old, and the insurgents cancel her the House of Commons would adjourn Discipline is as strict as ever, but 1933: Hazel Smith in Alabama in the tons), but she is twenty-two years to encourage the
four-square gospel the thing their parents have had in the clothed. More important, for three church, in Santa Barbara, Calif., in out with her, sister-ship Espana, past.
ars they have not had to fight, since all of Morocco is now pacified.
- pla
mode
Their parents can and did keep their homes together, Jewish au- thorities believe, through religious
life.
(*) CAN'T ALWAYS, 10 WATCHING THEM HOW,
KURSE, HOW CAN I
KEEP THEM HEALTHY?".
"You're
тегу wiso to ask
that, Mrs. Bartlett. And I'll tell you the way in which you can help them most.
"Make sure of internal cleanliness by giving them a regular weekly dose of California Syrup of Figs. This is specially important with children at the critical age, like yours, who are working hard for their exams. There's mothing pulls them down more than poison in the systemit affects their general health making them Ilable to catch any Infection that's going about.
"In my experience California Syrup of Fige does far more than simply cleanse the system. It acts quite naturally, and gently and keeps the digestion healthy and active.
find "California Syrup of Figs equally good for adults, especially for women. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Bartlett, I use it myself and recom- and you to adopt it for the whole family."
Be sure to pet the genuine"California Syrup of Figs."
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borne
GOT HIM.IN. DUTCH
The Government already have a (10,000 battleship, the Jaime 1.
pastor of
1934; and-wife No. 5-Clyde Alex- girl ander, former San Antonio
'TERROR SHIP
Her The Canarias is brand new. eight-inch guns were not fitted until the war began. She is fast, casy to
years
rebellion against discipline as the
In any case there never was any whom he married in Memphis, Tenn. regionaires are almost invariably ro-
"It was this sixth wife that got me bust fellows able to withstand the
dutch,"
sadly. he said
tains.
in
It was after he married Miss
rigorous life in the desert and moun- Alexander that she and federal ou mancuvre, and has been a constant
cers learned of the previous mar-terror to the Government. riages and lack of divorces.
She sank the Government de- The
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, sonk the cargo chuse 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, has| "My 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
foodships.
of
Milk cocktails have been invented sald. and are being tried out by the re- Demers, alios Hetherington, alias. freshment booths of a number of Mel-Gouthey, allas Pierrepont, was arrest- Jaime I recently put out bourne sporta grounds. If they prove ed a few weeks ago In Aberdeen, betion, 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.
-United Press.
Sam Browne's Famous Cavalry Disbands
Bombay, April 25.
SAM BROWNE'S Cavalry (12th Frontier Force), the regiment founded by the officer who invented the famous Sam Browne belt, is being disbanded.
It has left Jubbulpore, where it has been stationed sinco 1935, for Ferozepore, and is to become a training regiment for mounted units.
OWEN MOORE NOT MAD
Los Angeles, Apr. 25. AN 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.
There will be no further recruitment for Sam Browne's Moore, had Cavalry.
Thus disappears from the Indian Army a picturesque regi- ment with a long and distinguished history throughout the Mutiny, through Frontier and Afghan
London, Apr. 27. The Prime Minister announced that
for the Coronation and Whitsun recess on May 6 and reassemble on May 24. -Reuter.
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