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THE TRUE SPIRIT OF THE LEGION...

THE RALLYING CALL OF A DEAD HAND.

FAMOUS FIGHTERS WHO SERVED MADAME FRANCE.

BATTLEFLAGS WHICH INSPIRE RARE COURAGE.

[By RALPH HEINZEN, Walted Press Staff Oorrespondent.]

SIDI-BEL-ABIES.The spirit of the artificial left hand of Captain later King, was a second lieutenant Legion agd it faurous discipline | Danjoa.

during the war of 1970: that a Pres sian Prince, a cousin of Wilhelm.

died with the Legion at Geryville Legion legend that those who touch in 1909; and that a German cruiser.

are the result of a super-rated i The hand lies under glass here in esprit de eorpa and 1102 this the Legion museum. There is a qerkings of an iron hand encased inn silk glove."

The officers of the French Foreign Legion are not slave drivers, and the men themselves are not of the heart to allow themselves to br handled by since-driving methods. The excellent fighting spirit of these regiments is obtained by a mans almust Childish in its simplicity.

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The recruit is walked to a vast painting picturing the aetien at the Cirque d'Alouana, in Moroces, when on May 15, 1811, Captain

Breve and one soldier, Peterson.

The drst few weeks of a Legion-fought off the Moors. They used up naire's life here at the mather bar-ali their ammunition then took the racks are staged by such marvellous į breeches out of their rifles and hid scene shifters and stage directors them in their knapsacks to make that at the end of that time he is the guns useless to their' éonquerors. roaring to go and if provided a The bolts were found when the machine-gun and a belt of bullets bedies were recovered. he will go out and bar a mountain pass single-banded.

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Royal Warriors, If that has not sufficed to stir up The recruit is taken by an older the smouldering pride of the recruit Legionnaire into the Legion muin the Legion, he is shown the seum, walked around the walls to rifle of Private Verheyen who died. touch tattered battle Bags, and stands for hours beside vivid paint! He was sent out to get wood, shot at Sconra, Morocca, on May, 1923. ings while traditions of Legion darat and fatally injured, but dragged Ling are recited to him.

himself back to the post with his rifle, saying as his last words: "I did my duty, they didn't get my rifle."

Then there was the Burgomaster of Hamburg who enlisted in 190D, The German Government tried hard in prevent him serving his time, but failed. Bruno and Constand Gari, bald were with the 4th Regiment of the Legion. Then there was Lieut. Löve de Montgomery who hit a German prince in the eye during a tournament, was persecuted with his family and finally sought refuge with the Legiou,

Glorious History.

la more recent time, the Legion has had glorious history. There are the pages written with American blood, where you find the names of Alan Seeger, James MacConnel, Sidney Drew, Gerald Chapman and Henry Farnsworth.

The Legion battleflags should in- spire courage in any recruit. They start with the founding by Louis- Philippe in 1531 when he wanted a regiment to succeed the Hohenloe baltalion. Then followed the

kin. Dahomey, Madagascar, the Colonial campaigns in Africa, Ton-

Orient, and the western front.

During the world war, when many Americans fought in the Legion, its battlefings, were seen in the thick of the fighting at Nieuport, at Vimy ridge, the Sommer Verdun, and along the Hindenburg Line at Neuville-sur-Margival.

As a climax he is allowed to touch the artificial hand of Captain Dan- Į jou, hero of the Legion campaign in Mexico, considered by the entire

He is shown a room filled with Legion to be the lucky piece of the portraits of men who were before, regiment. Whenever a Legionnaire ar became famous after, serving in wants courage he thinks of that the Legion. There is Golonel An hand. It is his bugle call in battle.gell, who resigned the Swedish army

Under a Glass Cane.

where he was head of a regiment Captain Danjou was one of as become a Lieutenant in the men of the Legion attacked by 2,000 Legion "I have not lost ans Mexicans in a farmhouse at Cam-stripes in becoding lieutenant in Rushed by bayonets, the the Legion. I feel I have gone up gallant little band was all but in grade," he declared. wiped out although the Mexicans The recruit is told that Prince were held off for hours. Three Pierre of Monaco was a Lieutenant badly wounded survivors who crawl-Colonel in the Legion during the el to safety took with them the war; that Prince Pierre of Serbia, nihilation.

brcne.

The Legion's battleflags bear the

gold cross of Italy, nine palms and

the French croix. de Guerre and Legion of Honour. Those are the reward of the glorious spirit which sent the Legion into the German lines often with almost certain an-

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