BATTALION MUTINIES
INCIDENT IN MOROCCO
LONDON, 24th. August,
A sensational dispatch from Fez has been published in Berlin. It gives details of an alleged mutiny in the Foreign Legion, resulting in four hundred being sentenced to death. The sentence was actually being1 carried out in forty cases. A whole battalion mutinied when about to go into action. Every man was disarmed and sentenced. According to French,custom, one in every ten was told to fall out and was shot. The survivors were sentenced to life penal servitude.
Among those shot, it is alleged, were twenty-four Germans, three Australians, two Bulgarians, and eleven. Russians.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 49, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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102BATTALION MUTINIES Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 49, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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