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LIFE WITH THE FOREIGN LEGION

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SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE AND STEPSONS OF FRANCE.

AMID SAHARA'S SANDS AND ATLAS SNOWS.

WHERE THE DRUMS OF WAR EVER BEAT..

[By RALPH HEINZEN, United Press Staff Correspondent.]

· [Eilitors' Note,—To get an absolutely impartial-view of the famour French Foreign Legion, the United Press sent its Paris correspondent, Mr. Ralph Heinzen, into Africa to live with the Legionnaires in their advance posts, uncomfortable spots in the burning sands of the Sahara edges or perched atap rocky promontories of the Atlas, outposts of French civilization,

In this series of articles, of which this is the first, he tells of the intimate day-to-ilay life

· njihese professional soldiers, many of them nameless even to their commanders, but all swaggering, fellows who would rather fight than cat, and äften do !]

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SIDI-BEL-ABBES (Algeria).-'Planes and clouds of alkali dust stirred up back from the highlands of the by the feet of the men or their

horses, Atlas bring the news that trouble camels

the Legion is brewing. Mountain pasturages manoeuvred to stave off attack or formations wherever have been burned to a crisp by the break tip sun and the flocks have gone down planes reported an unusual, number into the valleys again, leaving the af Moors or Arabs gathered. mountain Moors, now relieved of their tedious tasks of shepherding. free to band for their winter diver ston of puerilla fighting.

Here in dusty, baked Sidi-bel Abbes, the sun-scorched "Legion of the Damned drills its khaki-clad thousands in anticipation of a hard winter. Tiny detachments have already gone to ungodly holes in the mountains and the desert where,

during the terrific heat of a sum- mer's sun no white man could live. Only in the winter can these out- Posts of the Legion be manned.

A Curtain-Raiser.

Dust and Rocks.

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The mountain Moors wage a con- stant holy war against the whites, The Legion is not a combat unit for offense. It is a paid army of defenders, happy to fight at the drop of a hat, but always waiting for the enemy to drop the bat

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home, its headquarters and there the recruits come in mystery to bury a past which may or may not have been sinful and to sign away all freedom for seven years.

The Return,

Back to tiny Sidi comes the Legion ол permission. In her dirty, cafes the sunbaked men find their pleasures. Women, tired of face and body, in tolerance of the army, take up their unenviable duty of helping the Legion wear. out its pent up energies,

sins and Pales, blonde shared- headed Germans, tiny Syrians and swarthy Spaniards and Italians; Frenchmen whose fine fingers and clean shayen faces hint at trage- dies of love; Englishmen who are daring, and joined the Legion for a fight.

In the streets of Sidi move hordes of red-sashed Legionnaires, whose Nothing is here in this arid cor- faces all the story of their suffer- ner of Africa but dust and drying. There are square jawed Rus rock. Under the suursun the rocks are sizzling hot and the sands blistering. The Legion suffers thirst and hunger and the men know the fevers and wandering The ambush of Colomb-Bechar, mind that only a desert sun can only a few weeks' back, was a pre-produce, but, to the glory of the lude, a curtain-raiser to many Legion, it holds on by its nails to months of wicked fighting with an the desert so dearly bought. unseen fce. Seldom does news of these battles, poorly inatched for the Exgion, leak back into more civili ed places, but from day to day the Legion lives its perilous existence to keep France's hold on Moorish

Africa safe.

It is tradition that the Legion has horny feet. The Legionnaires need them, for when a column mar- ches out under orders. from El Bordj, Ait Yakoub, Boujad or Talghemt, it is always a forced march. Twenty miles a day over It takes a really serious ambush sand and rocks, without a road or in which at least fifty men are landmark as a guide, no trees to sacrificed before the Legion breaks shade weltering humans in the into print, unless some disgruntled brief rest periods, and a waiting volunteer, deserts and gets back toenemy hehind many rocks. his home town to spread tales of terrer and tribulation.

There is plenty of work for the Legion this winter. The summer was no sinecure. In blinding heat

Sidibel-Abbes is the kindergar. ten and stamping grounds of the Legion, an army post as we once knew them on our own western frontiers. Here the Legion has its

The Legion is a melting pot of fighting men, and yet they are not quarrelsome. Every man in the Legion is a man for himself yet the Legion fights the battles of others and any Legionnaire would pay the supreme sacrifice for his fellows.

There is no other such band of

fearless, hard-hearted man, fint- eyed and square jawed ambassadors of steel to keep unruly Moors in check by diplomacy of the rifle.

The Legion is unique, the Legion has for 8 years stood as an asylum for the wayward, and yet the Legion is the highest disciplined band of troops that has ever been assembled in the world.

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1 Football: Junior Dis. Univer- Tides: High, 5.37 a.m, and 6.20. sity e. K.O.S.B., Somersets e. Navy. ] p.m.; Low, 12.04 a.m. and 12.02 p.m. Queen's Theatre: "Behind That European Mails':-Inward: Lon- Curtain."

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