THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 28, 1988.
DYING WOMAN LEGIONARY SINGS MARCHING SONG OF THE LEGION
With
In the little French town of Sis- She never left Marseilles. teron lies a white-haired old woman her money she founded a small hos- desperately ill. She is the ⚫ only pital. There Legionaries on leave woman who has ever served with the could always find a welcome. If Foreign Legion as a front-line sol- they were sick she nursed them. dier.
When they returned to their com- are 'pany she wrote to them, sent them voice money and cigarettes. She became mar-, the Angel of the Legion.
She is dying but there moments when her quavering breaks out into the Legion's ching song.
Ten years ago her health falled over and she retired to Sisteron.
She is re-living the days, forty years ago, when she fought Hard-bitten men throughout the with the Legion, penetrated alone world who once served in the Legion into a hostile Arab camp, saved her are praying for her. When she dies company from death and torture, some of them will lose the only and was recommended for the Croix friend they ever knew. de Guerre.
Julie Cambert is almost forgotten. Only the nuns who tend her know her secret.
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Julie was madly in love with young bank clerk. Three months before they married he forged a cheque. He was given the choice between jail or the Foreign Legion. He chose the Legion.
SILENCED BY MONEY
smile. month of her lover's arrival in
ALLEGED PLOT
TO KILL BOY PRINCE
A man suspected by the Jugoslav Julie had money and prettyLegation in Paris of planning to She used both. Within a assassinate Prince Alexander-the 14-year-old son of Prince Paul, Chief Regent of Jugoslavia-has been arrested at Boulogne.
Algiers, she had enlisted in the Le
gion,
She arrived at Algiers three days after her lover had left for a desert outpost.
That was blow number
one.
Blow number two was when some body betrayed to her fellowsoldiers that she was a woman. But money kept their mouths shut.
Before long her company was sent to the desert fort of Al-Bouet.
The Arabs were stirring in revolt. She volunteered to find out their plans.
One night, dressed as an Arab woman, she left the fort on foot For two days she tramped through the sand until she came in sight of the Arab encampment.”
hew of the Duchess of Kent, is at Prince Alexander, who is a nep-
the cross-Channel steamer Isle of Eton. He sailed from Boulogne in Thanet, on his way back to school from Jugoslavia, where he has been spending the Easter holidays.
The arrest was made following.an urgent telephone call from the Jugoslav Legation to M. Marion, chief of the special police at Boulo- gne, M. Marion was asked to keep the man in custody at all costs until Prince Alexander had sailed for England.
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The suspect, who is described on She was captured and dragged his passport as Peter Burgitch, before the chief. She told her farmer, on Jugoslavia, was stopped story. She was a Frenchwoman by the police as he was about to taken by the Legion from one of the board the tender going out to the coast towns. Sickened by her life Royal Mail liner, Highland Prin- in camp, she had escaped to find shel-cess; 14,128 tons, bound from Lon- ter with the Arabs.
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The chief believed her. her a tent and a servant. week she lived there.
don to Buenos Aires. The police He gave
established that his fare had been For paid by the Jugoslav emigration
office.
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were
She discovered the Arabs planning a night raid on Al-Bouet on a night when its garrison was at half-strength. She waited for nothing else.
NINE HOURS' RIDE
PASSPORT FORGED
He was found to be carrying about £6 in Jugoslav notes. A small despatch case, with a few per- sonal effects, was his only luggage. M. Marion examined Burgitch's passport under a mircroscope, and discovered that the original photo- That night she stole a horse, crept graph had been removed and that out of the camp, and raced for Al-another had been stuck on in its Bouet. She made the journey in place. He also discovered further nine hours" hard riding, and gasped irregularities, and Burgitch was de- out her news"
tained on a charge of forging a passport.
The attack came at the time she said. The. French.were ready. They poured volley after volley into the Arab ranka, In the ten minutes the attack was a retreat.
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A woman interpreter read the charge to him in German, Serbian, Hungarian and several other, lan- guages, but he appeared not to un- derstand.
Julle had a bullet li her shoulder. In hospital the commandant learned DANGEROUS CHARACTER her secret. He immediately infor In the meantime the Boulogne med the authorities at Afgiërs and police had received further infor- recommended her for the Crols de piation from the Jugoslav, Legation: Guerre. She never
Ay'a This was to the effect that Burgitch woman,gle Bld never officially was a very dangerous character): served in the Legion.
She was hurriedly sent back to Marseilles there to bestold that her lover had died in a skirmish with Arabs.
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According to: a memorandum: from Zagreb, Jugoslavia; it was. stated he was wanted for a number. of assassinations.
Burgitch is tall, with fair hair. and & small moustache..
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