GALLANTRY OP SWISS
A public subscription fund is being raised in Switzerland for the families of 7700 Swiss killed during the war in the French service, the pride., which the Swiss feel in this record being reflected by comments in newspapers throughout tlie cQuntry, . French official statistics show that 8000 Swig? joined tho French Army and that ajl bat 500 wp-o killed in act-ion. 6i died. The- surviving 200, including many wounded, returned to Switzerland under Captain Courvoisier, of whom Marshal Foch said: "There is a .real leader of m.sn." / One Swjss exploit was tho gallant stand made' by 1000 men, at Verdun. Thqugh ■'suyrqvjnded by several times their number, "ihpy held up a German advance for several valuable hours. Tho 1000 Swiss wer« killed to the last man.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 9, 10 January 1920, Page 7
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129GALLANTRY OP SWISS Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 9, 10 January 1920, Page 7
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