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UNEMPLOYMENT BILL

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22, 1934.

THE FOREIGN LEGION

By Major R. H. BRODIE, ex-Corporal of the Legion

The Very Idea

NATURAL FISHTORY

(By Eddie Kelly, Blubber Expert.)

hooked him.

TOTHING could be more falso left or is about to leave the N

than the conception that the Legion; the other has not yet com- a love-lorn Public

Oh, but you should have. with the problem outside the Poor posed of none but "scallywags"; The former, an attempt, as is claimed to deal French Foreign Legion is completed his five years' engagement. We have been out fishing.

who does his School boy, enlisted in the Legion. Law, it bureaucratisen and inten-and that any man

of service In the Legion At first his situation was pitiable, seen the one that got away. lfies the Poor Law principles, term

precisely amorges either as a tough or a He tried to desert, was caught, and

It was out off the Brewery The procedure will the same as it has been in the last fallure, unfitted to make a good after a time he "pulled his socks

up" (they do not wear them in the wharf at Tsun Wan when we two years, but under another citizen in after life.

When I enlisted in the Legion in Legion!) and was later wounded - authority, an authority which has not got the advantage behind it 1912, my Company Commander twice, I think-and decorated for

It swallowed bait, hook that it is to be administered by a interviewed mo privately, and valour. From a love-lorn youth representative body of people, as asked me to regard him in the he became a real man, tough, yet

The other was an intimate and sinker and immediately it was under the Board of Guard-light of a father confessor. This all the better for it. inns' system. The new body is to he did with every other recruit.

ourself and the consist of people appointed by the If the recruit responded, he re- friend of mine whom I had known swam off, taking with it

Pete,' and removed from the ceived good advice "straight from whilst commanding a regiment of Crown

the the shoulder" if he declined to irregular cavalry "somewhere."

brewery, round which we criticism of Parliament, on excuse that municipal candidates Iny bare his past, he received the met him later, also "somewhere." bought vates with extravagant good advice-without any pressure He was then, through sheer torcs an hotel. I found him another job, promises to the unemployed. An-being brought upon him to confess of circumstances, a hanger-on in had tied our line. other grave injustice in the Bill is his sins-if any.

Such results were produced that but he fell in love, vna jilted, and the proposal to saddle the Fund's debt on to tho contributors under I doubt if my late Company Com- then took to brandy.

perfect haze of alcohol we passed the Philippines, and it the new scheme. They are to paymander could fail to enter. Para- the Legion Cavalry it off over a number of years. Itdise for his efforts to redeem bad was In

In the line. The hook and is contended that this would be a characters and failures in life. when I saw him off on a boat 10r was then that we decided to haul

He lost his girl, but he regained more creditable addition to the The material he had to deal with Marseilles, where he enlisted.

mere his self-esteem, and far too busy sinker had gone. National Debt than some of the was motley in character, age, race,

and creed. He dealt with items of which it is composed.

boys and with men of over forly; with his horse, his carbine, and men without his sabre, to spend his time drink- with criminals and a stain on their characters; withing. His letters to me displayed a dall peasants and with ex-profes-new man altogether, with never a hausted, but we managed to He was not alone in grouse at the life. His photo-stagger into the Gloucester for å Isional men.

this respect, but as the Commander graphs tlepict a very fine-looking fey rums, or the Legion Depot Company ne soldier. Incidentally, he was

the very fine polo player and should hit it off well with the ex-Russian exerted great influence on future career of the recruits.

Cavalry officers in the ranks of the Legion Cavalry.

IRON OF PAUPERISM

ence.

Crashing into the Empress of suggested Japan, which sank immediately, to him. He

The eases enumerated

arc

it

The long swim back to Hong- 118 somewhat ex- kong left.

Ultimately we arrived home. And our wife said, "FISHING!"

And a few other things.

If you can think of a better one. tell it.

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Correspondence

of

The Labour challenge will not, of course, make a whit of differ- The ponderous Government majority will doubtless work in lis the usual automatic fashion, In interest of a balanced Fund. It is, of course, desirable that the Un-

Subsequentlf, on being posted to Fund Insurance employment should be upon a solvent basis if other companies, these men were typical of many others, but

NEXT WEEK: The story of an it can reasonably be managed, studied more carefully by their would be an exaggeration to say

the Foreign Legion. Some herring woman who, fishy had no But there is much in the conten-officers than many of them ever that they represent all members

to have no Intent sole, it was because she had no tion that the Government Bill realised. The French officers, at of achieves this effect by continuing first sight, appeared to some of us men appear the impoverishment of the mind as being rather indifferent towards qualities, and are bound to sink. plaice she could call her home,

Our private bad criminal element. The born everybody newt. and body of the poor, and by con- the men, but we soon found that The latter type include the really she was just a faded rods, and

morals, criminal does not always react to tinuing the humiliation of large this was not the case. numbers of people by branding lives were known; our

temperament, and general char-good influence; In fact, he exerta them with the iron of pauperism.

acteristics were studied by them his evil influence on others in the he re- and also by our N.C.O.s. Although Legion. However, unless

Dear Edward Kelly (Shados of my he has but one end-n I was an ex-second lieutenant of forms,

yesterday I was holding people up SILVER RUMOURS

more. яees him no a Scottish regiment and intended heavy term of imprisonment, and bushranger days! It seems only and saying "Are you going to pay Silver continues to fill the air to work for a commission . the the Legion with rumours. The treacherous Legion, I became a Legionary Some did reform during my ser-cash for this motor boat or sign a I have been a Dame has it that President Iloose- rather too quickly. In other words vice with the Legion, though it chit?") However, the object of this velt will do tig things in the nearI started to "bent it up" with the took years to effect the cure. The letter is not reminiscence, but re- constant reader of your column, and a future and also talks of devalua- best of the Legion topers--and medicine certainly tasted nasty to crimination. For years

some of us-it certainly did to me

fervil admirer of your philosphy life; your fearless and outspoken tion of currency by the Nanking they were many.

My Company Commander punish-but if it does not always cure, Government. And Hongkong, very

diatribes anent the evils of the chit

had have

my hearty system naturally keenly interested, listens ed me severely for starting a frolic it does not kill.

endorsement, wille your delicate trent with all cars cocked. The truth in my barrackroom, a frolic which

of the younger other The brutality of non-commis-

reminiscent is impossible to discover. The ended in the Guard-room. I had

is to believe been standing drinks to It would appear from Sir John safest principle Gilmour's Intest reply to Parlin-nothing until action has been Legionaries. Although I was not sioned officers of the Legion, with- Sitwell or Sam Mayo at his best of mentary questions on British actually taken. Nevertheless, the accused of being drunk, the logical out being a myth, is not general. the noble art of beer drinking has

the others. In the Britlah officers in all armies, and the larger muge-

I was illusioned and disappointed man! Fascism that the Government is speech of the chairman of the Frenchman punished me and let There are bad non-commissioned encouraged me to greater heights and "any other business," when the air at length beginning to realise Hongkong and Shanghai Banking off

was thick with "I A had boon pro- the dangers associated with the Corporation on Saturday will be Army I would have got away scot Legion is no exception.

awaited with more than usuni free and the others would have brutal on one occasion, merely in been punished. In this and many speaking the brutal truth to a very movement. Whilst no-one would interest.

other ways, the Foreign Legion defected individual. The man was posed for B's job I would have try to treat their men fairly, and a Swiss, and was previously em-nominated C if D had given me a to their own political beliefs, or

by doing so, they get their results ployed as the sporting reporter of chance because he shoves

a French newspaper in London.better ha'penny than E" I heard a in due time. to the public expression of them

The International Labour Or

of He had had a tiff with his wife voice say "No! I have't been stuck Interesting casca-typical so long as they are not seditious,

of the League of that is a totally different matter Kanisation

men who have made good-aret of pique. He then adopted the from condoning the tactics and Nations has taken another long pre-War, War time, and post-War and enlisted in the Legion in a yet---you'd better let me pay for this methods of the Mosley Black-step forward in its fight for better worth recording. One pre-war attitude of a moat ill-treated per conditions in the mining industry Legionary became-the-Irish-free son; cursed the French for having shirts. The provocative effect In May next, the International State Minister at. Washington, a regiment in which he could of the wearing of uniforms by Labour Conference will be confter serving five years in the enlist; and deplored being separat political bodies, to say nothing sidering the revision of the exist-Legion. If he reads this, I sended from his wife. His one desire

I told him straight out that hexame useful substance! Thinking it of the possession of armoured-ing Convention on compensation him my apologies for pulling his was to be discharged. cars, is beyond question. Indeed, for occupational diseases. This leg so often when we were in the

my had better cut out that "sob-stuff" was probably a lapus linguas, or at it is now disclosed that during Convention, which was adopted in ranks together, and

wife for good and all. I listened in again, and heard the recent months there has been a 1925, binds States ratifying it to congratulations on his distinguish and added that he had probably the worst an attempt to be facetious. dreadful offer reiterated, and nearly him to Was no failure, Furthermore, I referred marked increase in street dis-rant compensation to the victims ed career on leaving the Legion. lost his

of certain diseases or to their Anyhow, he

cashiered the canteen where, for a small accepted! Only the naturally de- praved instincts of his companions, turbances as a direct result of dependants in case of death. During the War,

from his doom. Blackshirt activity. The organi-is now proposed to enlarge its British infantry lieutenant-colonel aum, he could get comfortably in-crav sing of political groups along scope to include a further schedule made good; his conviction by toxicated, assist others including craving the rattle of the bones, saved semi-military lines is bad for any of disenses, among which is that Court-Martial was quashed and he myself) to get into a similar condi country. It is, moreover, al of silicosis. Silicosis, otherwise was reinstated in the British tion, and enable us to forget our my dream and my faith in human together contrary to British known as "miners' phthisis" in Army'. ideas and must be regarded with disease caused by the inhalation

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Since the War I have known of mining, which damages the lungs two other cases, one who has just and causes a disease somewhat similar to consumption.

CLASSIC REPORT

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of which are features of the The existence of the disease has British Fascist movement-in-been known for centuries, but Was made on it vite opposition and are bound to little research

From lead to public disorder. If aliuntil the present century. political parties employed tactics 1900 onward, serious enquiries. of this character, the country were made, concluding in n classic would soon be in the throes of report issued in 1916 by the Miners' Phthisis Committee in very serious turmoil. We are South Africa, in which country surprised not only that a man of silicosis has always been especial- the standing of Sir Oswaldly prevalent. In 1980 an inter- Mosley should take it upon him-national conference on the subject self to organise such a move- was held in Johannesburg under ment, but that he should receive the auspices of the International the support of the Rothermere Labour Organisation, which there

after issued a detailed report Press, A heavy responsibility which now forms the locus classi rests on all who are associated cus for all questions connected with the leadership and further-with the disease.

ance of the campaign. Already

more some of the

extreme elements in the Labour | COOD PROSPECTS Party are talking of meeting

Thanks to this report, the sub- force with force, a circumstanceject to now well enough understood which illustrates the danger of to make it possible to include it movements of the kind under in a Draft International Labour notice. So far as the Blackshirts Convention. A large number of are concerned, the Government countries already pay comnenga- should have acted long ago; far tion for miners' phthisis and kin- too much latitude has been dred discarce. These includo prac tically all the States of South shown them, with the result that Africa, Australia and Canada, it will now be more difficult to Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Swed- Intervene than it would have on and Soviet Russla. Thus, the been in the early days of the chief countries in which silicoals movement. Nevertheless, the is common are already agreed on remain as it is. Further pro-Its victims, and there lo, therefore, crastination or temporising will reason to hope that the inclusion of this proposal.in an International only serve to aggravate the Convention will moet with no In situation.

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Men's Wear Stylists.

And now I am a dis- Last night, during the course of

round!"

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Incredulous, I asked "Who is that B.F7" (standing for "Beastly Filan- verent voice I was informed it was-no- thropist and in a husbed and re- other than Edward Kolly himself! of clay, and a head apparently of the imagine my dismay; my idol had teet

So, sorrowful at the shattering of sorrows. This we did, and We nature, I crept away, later, contem- wero assisted to our bads "very plating gloomily the Steak and Kidney next Rechauffee which I had not the heart to treat as it deserved, I was struck nicely, thank you." The

with the thought that perhaps the zot (Continued on Next Columns.)

had not yet set in, that it was possible an appeal to your better naturo

"Doris, are you going to sit still and act like a Indy, or

shall mother cuff you?"

save you from complete degeneratio

and

to the ranks of the "Wottlers" bring you back to the glorious army of the "Minesers". So think bofore it is too late, Edward; pause and re- feet before this dreadful babit got a grip you, and emerge onto on the Champion of the noble slogan of Free Beer C.T. (Doar C. THinsser rum and railk!-Eddie.)

morning, beyond a splitting head- ache, he appeared to realise that he was in the Legion for five years, and might no well take the best of what, for him, was, a very bad business.

This aspect of the French Foreign Legion is one which does not appear to be generally well- known, in spite of the walter of booka, cinema plays, and short articles produced on the subject. The Legion is not composed, as many think, of the rough elements only. I have known white alavera International crooks, petty thievo and even murderers In the ranki On the other hand, there were e officers, lawyers, tenors, busines mon, and even an unfrockod priet. Amongst the intelligent, there were some "bad eggs," it on the whole there was a pryty fair sprinkling of men who d real good in them. Thoir influice was felt, and this, together/ith 'strict discipline, good food, and hard work, combined to do a man overy chance to leav/ the Legion not as a failure; sibly not as a sucedas, but at ast n better man than he was herò ha foined it.