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THE NEW FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION.

(Conţinued from l'age 2)

out with HA umbrella in Hong Kong men who would not kill w rabbit, but can kill a man like n cook küls the rabbit."

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1932.

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ROMANCE IN A TRAIN.

BRITAIN'S GIANT FLYING BOAT.

Latest

Some others, Germans, Danish, known individually to contrive to roy or even to attenuate, "And the but ospecially Rumanian, com-he brilliant in some way or another. ; actual idell is to protect the heart plained bitterly in their national Little by little the subaltern staffs of the new recruits against any bad newspapers that they had been understood and applied the new misted when signing their engage methods and begumą, a great help 12171. Roma Russian prutended to the commanding officers. that they had joined the Legion to Labour and not " to fight,” etc.

Some old Legionnaires also set a good example, but very few of

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influence, at that age when auda vily, vico, shamelessness, danger. ous propaganda are more easily assimilated than good qualities and virtues. And under the guidance of admirable and valint Franch

France, these lada have engravened their names on the Atlas mountains, on the walls of these small isolatod Captain G. wrote " I have, but. posts and forts scattered on the three old Legionnaires in my Com-Southern ronds, in the Moulouya or pany and I'm pleased it is so, considering the poor value of the old element,

A German Legionnaire wrote:-them. As a rule they were rebel. "After a rather trying arch, hav-lions to the new ideas and grad-Offeers, specially selected from ing used many different ways of locomotion, but especially our legs, we reached Meknes. The discipline

There are young men joining the cimla of life to live according to their dreams, their mental tenden vory severe, but the battalion- cies or social necessities. And it sergant is an extremely upright happens that to start their life they man: when one behaves like a man, have entered, the door formerly re one is considered and treated a served to those wishing to quit life, much..

We sleep ander tents As the late General de Negier built by ourselves with the canvas told his men: You are soldiers and the pickets we carry on our seeking death: I am sending you haversacks

We have u30

night.

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can sleep AL

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sally wore weeded out. In a few months "the general spirit hæd en- tirely changed.

Sorgeant R., a Gorman (oid), wrote: The old Legionaire be- eame almost undesirable.

go."

in the severe country of the Mar. moucha: Their names are written on the roads they have built up to the desert in regions Romans Rover

know!

Of course, to-day as before, the old spirit of sacrifico still exists and

perilous mission, you have fifty

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RICH AMERICAN AND

TITLED GIRD

"Will the beautiful girl who

BIGGEST OF THE KIND EVER BRUNSWICK

CONSTRUCTED.

and

London, June 1-The biggest || MELOTONE travelled in the Arts Fallon military flying-bout in the world is HOW completed and vendy for from London to Brighton yesterday the American

RECORDS comnmate with

launching at the works of Short who travelled in the same compart Brothers, Rochester, Kant. ment 7 *-**

The above advertisement appeÁT- ed in a Londen newspaper a few weeks ago, alter a handsome Ameri can and a beautiful Englishwomen had travelled froin Victoria to Brighton,

They were the only occupants of

poared.

The new ship has a idading weight of 33 tons. more than twice, that of the next largest flying boat in the service of the Royal Air Fores, for which the new monster has been

built...

The hull is 5 feet long and the

horse power drives the new flying-

As to when you want two men for a tie Pullman car, and the American biplane wings have a spread of 120| where you will find death" As a too much room, but with a bit myself, I am pleased when they volunteers; but the new Legion of longed to speak-but hesitated feet. A Rolls-Royce engine of 850:

Sergeant C, a Frenchman (old), to-day is quite different from old, Next day the advertisement P- boat. She, will carry a crew of ten,

In 1919 and 1924, the old because osprit-de-corps to-day a ones, the good old ones return-founded ant only on strict, stern

"The béautiful girl replied, and who will have living quarters in the vessel was to enable her to make life followed the course taken in ed to the civilian life and those who discipline. but upon human eym

long flights to distant parts of the phone to stay or joined naain, en-pathy. joying already a pension, are not

empire... very good example for the new SIR WM. HORNELL LEAVES novels there would have been a

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rule they are full of goodwill; de of goodwill we voted, faithful, sober and, honest, with the good and bad of the aver.. age German, and perhaps of every mau. Instinctively they search for employmentà or small jobs and are good orderlips. good muleteers, good machine gim men, etc.

Some tried to denort but failed: one case" onded with the death of one of the fugitives and some de serters crune back

after having the unsubdued sojpurned among

trinos, in such a bad state that the recruits were nos tempted to

So is the physingony of the New imitate them. Legion, for the time being.

The Officers.

New troops require new letters: No more officers pussing uto prae ties a merciless discipline, and a systematic hardness: having to

vice, combat incurables

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The New Ways.

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Sergeant K...n German (new) Wenig habe ich gesehen; die aber, dio ich geschen habe, kan nicht als Vorbild Jungen hinstellen. [(1 have seen very little-of the old ones-but howlver what I have son, eannot be set as an example to the young ones).

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PRESIDENTIAL CHAIR."

After. Rotarian Shields

had thanked the speaker, the President, Sir William Hornell, said that he was sure he was expressing this wish of the Club in saying goodbye to Rotarian Creasy, who was going Home shortly on well enemed re tirement, and wishing him and his wife happiness,

Sir William went on to say that this was the last occasion on which ho would address members as their President. He wished to thank the

wedding.

Sho should be capable of weather- There will be one, but the beating anything except in ocean gale fat girl, who, incidentally, posscascis: title, will be at the ceremony only as a guest

| The Amorien, Captain Cushing Donnell, is to be the bridgegroom and the bride will be Miss Maureen Resborough, the 19-year-old daugh- tor of Major James Rosborough, of Hove.

One of the most interesting fear i tures of the new vessel is that she is built along such lines which may develop a flying-boa capable of! maintaining a trans-Atlantic ser-

vico.

knew her before she met me." Capt. Donell is a member of one

It is true that I know the girl of the oldest families in the United referred to." Miss Reberough said, Sumes and is heir to big estates.

"She has a title, and it would not He commanded the first American be fair to give her name, but she is battery to fire on the Germans into be at our wedding, which is to the Great War.

take place at St. Mark's, North. Audley-street, 'bo June 16.

L. When orders 'were given to use still more care and to pay more old N.CO's exclaimed: They look attention to the new recruits, some and Captain M., a Frenchman, siting Company there are too much after these lads," com. but a very few old ones; I am an paring with the old Legionnaire. sious to see them depart: they were who did not like to interfered had soldiers, drunken and vicious. patient study of characters, with with, except for his food. It was are nothing but a had ex

a tradition for the Superiors to be ample for the young Legionnaires. Directors and the Chairman of good advice, solicitude; encourage roughly good just but severe. The present Legion is quite dif- Committees for the excellent ser ment and rewards, which sweetmapply an automatic discipline fixed ferent from the old one. Our new vites they had rendered. He had Inbour; a firm but supple discipling ones for all; a discipline which had men are young, without chameteris-been very well served and he was no consideration for the culprit, but ed" er indelible deleats and not so that they would serve his taking its formes and its "effects in only for his fault.

successor equally well. He wished, | ill-repute. Thay me he hav

to the presi the plasticity of the new recruits.

The new methods and to being fallen into poverty, and to leave it anying goodbye

The Bride Knows, The officers of the Legion has now taught to the N.C.O.'s. They were them in touch with the old ones dential chair to expres the forvent

"Nothing," he told a Fress 12- a great part to play as an educator surprised at some sporting meet is detrimental to them. The old hope that members would never let ings, when they saw their Officers Jones, with some good quality be the Olub down. At times members more perhaps than in the Metro playing football with their men. same sergents or corporals; as a might be tempted to regard the presentative, will induce me to Wo They did not understand such rule they are good auxiliaries, butbligations as something of a nuis-give the name of the girl i saw in politan army.

aner, but if one reflected one would the Pullman six weeks ago? solicitude for the moral intellectual you have to watch them very close.

feel that the Rotary Club was nm

have become good friends and Miss organisation that members would Riberough knows all about it. nd material welfare of the Legion y as to drinking habits. naire; they were afraid by all those

bo very foolish not to encourage. New ad Old Type. private conversations, those per

"We live in times of peace, and sonal advies, those frequent ap- peals to self esteem, sentiment and Therefore it is wrong to compare looked after by a benevolent if not cominon sense, which the old ones the New Legion to the old one. paternal government. But the time would have laughed at, or taken Veterans and recruits have nothing may come when Hong Kong will be are glad to have an organisation as common, Between them advantage from, as a sign of weak-in ness or simplicity. They did not deep physical and payshiral differ- useful and effective as the Rotary realise how these lads needed to be cuces that it is impossible to desClub." (Applause.)

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I am sorry, this perhaps destroys more or less the picturesque legends "of the Furian Legion, I am sure it does not diminish the prestige of my country

The newly arrived officess, har- ing to live with almost an entirely new Legion, are told: "You come from France; these lads come from Germany. You bring here methods

used in the Metropolitan army. Do not change them and apply them hure." When these theories were put into practice hesitations and surprises took place, due especially to the presence of some old Legion- naires, but also to the surprising ford and physical appearance of the new recrtita.

A young officer exclaimed: "You call them Legionnaires: nothing "of the kind" another dae suid:- "There is no hope, they are too young, soo weak; their moral is weak. They refus frequently to j obey the old sergeants. There will be a lot of waste."

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And during the winter, their first winter in Africa, living in the mountains, in the forests, with"eeld, rain, wind and snow, it was for the lads a cruel disillusion.

"Yes," some said sndly, it resembles ton much Germany. We did not come for that." They had dreamt of another Morocco, which exists, but which they had not yet ween,

Disillusionment.

They had been dreaming of an adventurous existence, full of un- foreseen events. They had come to live among the "Savages" and there was no adventure, hardly kny attack and so few avages. Rarely a march in the vast sandy plains, in the wilderness ("le blad"), pass- ing nearby thy mative "douars" (villages of the Ambs) with their black tents in rags, surrounded by anaring and emaciated dogs, and some wrinkled faces of old hagi, and that was all.

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They had been dreaming of hight colours, sunny plains, palm- trees, desert, bailliant exploits, and perhaps of love intrigue with a beautiful confined monkers (Arab woman), becoming himself a Hultan in the desert and they found, nothing but a military camp, like all military camps, with its daily fatigue duties and discipline, errant dogs, nauseous smells, thousands of flies, old women, together with the eeld, the mud, the snow, and no

quartier réservé,"

Some Danish Legionnaires wrote xome letters- which when published reated some sensation. Some tried to leave their camps, and however their lot wAS no better or worse. than that of any French Volunteer m the Regular Army"

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"I have known her some time, but I met Captain Donnell only

at Mr. Preston's hotel" comparatively recently at a dance

Captain Donnell was one of the first Americnnis to join the British Any at the outbreak of war, but I came to Brighton to stay with it is a German, Captain. Erie von Mr. Harry Preston and it was his Salmans, who will send the toast of the bridegroom as the wedding sister-in-law who helped me to draw

My reception. Part of the honeymoon, up the agony announcement. travelling companion repod, and too, will be spent in Germany, at Cariously enough, Miss the home of the widow of General we met. Roshorough knows her. In fact, she von Langendorf, formerly chief of

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