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THE FOREIGN LEGION'S COMING. CENTENARY.

(Continued from Page 1)

DARTMOOR'S OLD CURSE.

ENTERPRISES THAT HAVE FAILED,

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To join the Legion is a simple

Attempts to industrialise and matter. It can be done at any mercialise Dartmoor provide a French recruiting station. In a long record of failure, and there are whitewashed room, sinong the rough people who, to-day, have a super- crowd of working inds out of a stitious belief in the old Dartmoor job, gaol-birde and apaches tired of curse: If you scratch my back 1 living by their wits, is a sprinkling will pick your pockets" Whether of neatly, dressed men with a fur- one laughs at or has a shenking tive or defiant air. These are the idea that there is something in the FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, classic heroes of the Legion-men'old curae (writes a correspondent), in good positions, whose lives have one has to admit that there is been wrecked by some folly or cala scarcely an enterprise on Dartmoor mity, or educated boys who have that has ever yielded a profit. left home after a petty quarrel. Ages are not strictly verified; false names are accepted and no questions

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The Slave.

The scheme for the afforestation of about eight square miles of the

or by the Forestry Commission, with the sanction of the Duchy of Cornwall, recalls past industrial After reporting at Marseiles, the fort in these highlands of Devon. The oldest industry, apart from recruit is sent to the depôt nt Sidi- bel-Abbes, near Oran, in Algoria.agriculture, is that of mining for Here the Legion takes him by the copper and other minerals, which throat and breaks him or makes him prospered materially a century or its slave. 'Imagina a little military more ago. Here and there a mine is still worked, but only in n com. town, square, still, geometrically- planned. In the middle are the paratively small way, and for the barracks-bare, whitewashed build-most part only ruins of the old ings on three sides of an open court. workings remain, and in some cases Round the court are trees, and Nature and Time have buried aven

the traces of these. across its centre is a tarred road.

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Farms That Failed. Sir Thomas Tyrwhit, in the early daye of the last century made efforts to reclaim the moor for agricultural uses.

He created a number of newtakeg enclosures-and placed tenants in them, but to-day all that remain are the fast disappearing ruins of the buildings and crumbling boun- dary walls.

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Teak, Iron and Brass Bedsteads with Mattresses, Teak Wardrobes. with Berolled Mirrors, Cheat of Drawers, Dressing Tables, Baths, Linen, Washstands, etc, etc.

Teak Dining Tables, Dining Chairs, Ice Chest, Teak Sideboards with Bevelled Mirrors, Dinner Waggon, Dinner Orockery, Glass Ware, Fire Iron, Table Fan, Kadiators, Flower Pota, etc., etc,

and

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In more recent times there have uniforms. (not always new) and to been attempts to work the moor Joss Tables, Jardinieres, Chairs,. sort out the tangle of unfamiliar for, china clay. On the south- Desk, Tas Porn, Opium Stools, Tai- objects-arms, equipment, tropical western escarpments there are clay lee Stone Round Table and Stools,

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D'ANNUNZIO'S GIFT TO

ITALY.

RESIDENCE FOR NATION.

formally handed D'Annuazio aver to the Italian people recently, his princely residence Il Vittoriale at Gardone, on Lake Garda, The deed of gift was signed by the Minister of Public Education, Sig. nor Balbine Giuliano, for the State, and by Garbriele d'ân- nunzio, Prince of Monte Newso,

have founded a theatre, and workshops to renew the ancient Italian erafts. I hammer iron blow gines, interpret the mysteri aus recipes of Catherine Sforza, and disti! subtle perfumes.

It

on them.

For the shaking-down process they have two days' rest, A brief encounter with the Colonel serves to deflate the presumptuous and encourage the timid, and they are ready to take their places in

the ranks.

prosperity, more particularly when both home and foreign trade is more. successful than it is to-day. But at other points the record is one of failure. Further attempts might he made but for vigorous opposition to what is regarded as despoiling the moor.

Forestry Opposition.

The recruit spends three months

The present scheme of affore- nt the depot, during which he station is of a different character,

undergoes training designed to sup-because it is gathered by the Fores try Commission and feases have to that press his unruly individuality and already been granted make him a reasonably efficient cog authority by the Duchy. A portion

of the work has been dono-at Fern in the machine.

worthy, but it is proposed to extend

operations

Opponents argue that on its own demerits and if no other intereste were involved, the attempt to afforest Dartmoor must be regarded · as a wasteful expenditure of pub- lie monry.

Heartbreak is the kernote of the Legion-heartbreak from loneliness, ugliness and constant danger, and beartbreak moris unbearable still from the rare touch of beauty and human warmth. The Legionaries

The Forestry Commission point are great singers; they sing on the out that if the whole of the suggest. march, in barracks, and in theird 3,000 neres are planted it will forts, in many tongues. Sometimes amount only to about eight square. when lights are out and the night miles out of a total of 250 square. is too hot for sleep, a voice is lifted, miles, but the reply of the Dartmoor and a

grave, rhythmic chorus, Preservation Association is that in Russian or German, swells as ther the last century 18,000 acres, have voices join. Now faces are hidden been enclosed and taken from the save for the glow of a cigarette; commoners, and another 16,640 acres men can give themselves free rein. have been leased to the War Office They sing with full hearts wrung for military purposes. by the poignant music; the flood

of memories, of longing, of self-pity

sweeps them away,

"Lo enfard is the ncuras- thenin which comes of

a hard

and dangerous life in a too-dry It climate under, a merciless sun. drives the more sensitive to suicide; others relieve it by occasional orgies of drink or outbursts of indiscipline. Drunkenness and temporary desertion are not too harshly punished as a rule, for they are necessary rafety-valves. A man, or more often two men together, will disappear for several days. They may be wallowing in the native quarter or tramping aimlessly over the or lying naked all

i with a me of -rwief that day in a shady place by a pool or YOUR SAFEGUARD

I

give all that I possess, and I ̧ only beg the head of the Govern ment to accept my gift, declaring it inalienable in any manner or tims, for the sake of the living who are awakening and of the dead who are watching. The post retains full posscasion of the estate till death. The State undertakes to build a wall all

It was witnessed by Signor Giovan-round II Vittoriale and to make

nin Giuriati, Secretary General of various other improvements.

the. Fascist party, and Augusto Turati, the former Socretary. It consists of 11. articles, precoded by

a statement by the poet couched in

a stream, living on dates, bathing and sleeping. In one way or an- other, according to their tastea, they are enjoying a spell of illicit free- dom and forgetfulness, and they will come back of their own accord when they have recovered from their fit or nerves. No great to-do will be made over their absence if it has been reasonably short, and a couple of days in cells will complete their

cure.

The Verdict.

It is often asked why the French State persists with a system which misery. The answer cover so much "victims would be worso off anywhere else, and that it is useful to have a body of troops which will serve under harder conditions and fight against heavier odds than or- dinary men. ..

The Moscow.newspaper Economic the most fantastic-language--in-Life, commenting on the doorca of cluding the following passages: the Soviet Government abolishing

As long age is, December, 1923, unemployment subsidies, says that ally given is that most of the Terate to my brother-in-arme the abolition-of-unemployment in and head of the Italian Govern- Russia, the only country in the ment, Benito Mussolini, making a world where this has been achieved, free gift of 11 Vittoriale, to the. is one of the greatest successes of Italians, considering that a testa the Soviet Union. Argaing that

•ment of soul and stone. eter-

unemployment subsidies have only. nally immuno from any rul helped the lazy since the great gar intrusion. It is no fat in labour shortage in the country, the heritance of inert wealth, but a

newspaper says the money hitherto naked inheritance of the immortal spent on subsidies will now be used pirit I, formerly poot of mag- to teach unskilled workers a trade

apolog and

Daring the next three months

three months over zapatronted my sober half a million workore

cbricly and musical silones with in the precincts of this humble courses of technical instruction residence, which bears my person will be organised by the Com

I missariat of Labour, al imprint in every room.

The men of the Legion accept this verdict with sombre pride. After five years' service, there are many who used to the Legion's rigoura, nro afraid of freedom and serve again. They go back to the sun- ontwerd gecko light loves

Baked forts, to the endless tracks. lah Kaabah and the poor obligion of rank liquor. And: Bo, through danger, and hardness and comrade ship, to a sort of peace.

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