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UP TRAINS

STATIONS Ko. No, No.10 No.9 No. 13 No, 14 No. 16, N.10 No.32,26 0,10 NAJI

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Kowloon. Dep. 6 401 8.05 8.30 9.08 2.15 10.00 12.10 1.15 2.25

Yanmati.Dep. 6.40

Taipo

1 Tripo

9.25 10.08/12:15 1,23) -

Shatin...Dep 7.01

9,38 10,20:12,30 1,35,

Dep 7.18

9 63 10.33:19,43; 1.45 --

Markot.Dep. 7.20 -

Fanling..Dep. 7,30

9.48 10.97 12,471,39 --- 10.10 10.47,12.87 2.02

abui...Dep. 7.36

9.07 9.45 10.15 10.59) 1,02 2,07)

Shoang-

2.50 4.30 6.40 7.54

4.38 5.48 7.44 4.50 8.00 7.56

| 4.04 6,138.09

6.08 6.17 8.13 5,18 6.27 8.23

3.28 5.23 6.99 8.27

Saum-

chun...Arr. 7.41 8,459.13 9.51 10.21 10,58) 1,08 2,133.10 3.34 5.89 6.38 3.33

Canton... Arr! -

12.051 5.49

6.30

DOWN TRAINS

STATIONS

No. 3o. 3, No. 7 AX. A.M. A.M..

No.11 No.5 No.16 No.17 No.12 No.11 AMA.X. 4.M. | 2.M. | P. P.M.

Canton...Dep.

Shunchan...Dep. 7.17 8.03 10.34 Sheungshni Dep, 793 8,11 10.4g Fanling ....Dep, 7,30 9.15 10.475 Taipo Market. Dep. 7.40 9.28 10.575 Taipo

...Dep. 7,44 9,31 11 011 Bhatia

...Dop 7.57 9.44 11.14 Yaumati"...Dep, 8.113,66 11.26) Kowloon Arr. 8.17 9,02, 11.3

8.10

No.250, 123 T.X. P.H...

3.26

11.05.11.2711.47 3.484.39 5.47 6.18 8.4218.51 11.55 2.54 4.48 6.54 6.25 9.39 19.00 3.00 4.50 5.59 12,11 3,115.00) 8.08 12.16 3.18 5.04 8.13 -12.30 8.32.6.176.26 12.42 3.6415,296.38 12.07.12.48 3 0 5,88 6,44

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HONOUR, FIDELITY-AND FRANCE!”.

TREADING THE PATH OF THE LEGIONNAIRES.

BATTALIONS THAT CARRY NO FLAG.

VOLUNTEERS ASKED NO QUESTIONS.

[By RALPH HEINZEN, United Press Staff Correspondent.]

SIDT-NELABBES.-When the For- first visit was to the office of the eign Legion matches on parade it guard, where I was received by the carries no flag: the Legionnaires officer of the day, Lieutenant Sferolli, a bearded Italian who had are for seven years men without a country, and although the Legion worked his way up from the ranks French, the khaki-clad soldiers Fia 18 years with the Legion. As for have taken no oath to France.

The new Legionnaire takes his

oath of allegiance to the Legion

The Ang is red, white and blue, but so are the flags of a dozen other

the flag, nations. The oath is taken to a simple phrase upon "Honour and Fidelity. Not n word is said about the President or

Austrians.

every other recruit, Lieut. Merolli insisted to make sure that the new man thoroughly understood that he

was signing up for seven years and that the only way out was by pur chase.

of Italy. Merolli, an officer in the

most men in the Legion are dare, devils who want to Sght and know that with us, they will get all the excitement they want. There have been far more nobles than criminals in the Legion.

Manding Broken Hearts,

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There was no war and no pros- sergeants dressed in fine uniformspect of war in Italy, and we craved.

excitemeat," stand outside a recruiting office to

Lieut." Merolli invito passing youths to volunteer plamed to me, for seven years of constant excite-

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Likewise, the Legion receives every volunteer without a question. He can refuse to answer the simple questions put to him, and if he does not offer a name, he is assigned a number. When he goes out of the Legion, he goes out under his num- too, ber and none heed ever know of his past or his service.

From Paris, past Marseilles, by boat to Oran and train to Sidi-bel-

Abies, I trod the path of the valun-

teers, la my compartment of the train rode a middle-aged French man wrapped in his thoughts from the time we left Oran. As I enter ed the room where volunteers are in- corporated into the Legion, this man walked out the opposite door, the newest recruit in that famous regiment.

al

A Prince Enlists.

I was put through the "mill"

ex

Prine Pignatelli moved along, and became a captain of cavalry before he was killed at Macedonia in 1918.**

The First Step:

The popular impression that the Legion is a penitentiary chain gang is all wrong. Certainly, it has a standard of morals all its own, and the men are a hard lot, but they are not criminals. There exists in Fránce a penitentiary regiment to which French courts sentence pri- soners, but this has nothing to do with the Legion.

Unfortunately these two are often The counfounded, wilfully or not. Legion is a safe place for a criminal who might seek to escrpt, and that may explain the popalar. impression. No police officer could The first step of the recruit is to ever arreat a man in the Legion. the registry office." He may give a and Lieut. "Merol firmly insisted Bame or may refuse. Never is any that the Legiou never turns over question asked of his antecedents. copies of its enrollment, records to le deposits any money he may French police for the tracing of have, and catablishes a bank accriminals, count to be drawn upon.

That story should be "evotched" The world is mistaken when it for all time. "The Legion has been feels that hundreds of criminals dananed by that misrepresentation, make use of the Legion to hide but the fact remains that few away from the police or justice," criminals would

ever

care to

Lieut. Merolli said. Naturally undergo seven years of such hards there have been criminals hiding ship as those fight-loving soldiers

at Sid exactly as any recruit. My here. and they have hech safe, but voluntarily take upon themselves.

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To-day.

(December 11.)

Hockey: Club 1. Somersets, C.S.R.C. ground, 5 p.m.

Football: Junior Div.: Univer

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World Theatre: Two Lovers." Star Theatre: Fire Brigade."

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Meeting for Students, Conducted iy Canon Streeter, St. John's Hall,

Tides: High, 4.08 am, and 0.02 8.30 p.m. p.m.; Low, 11.26.a.m.

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