THE FOREIGN LEGION

Evening Star, Issue 20572, 26 August 1930, Page 9

THE FOREIGN LEGION

REPORTED MUTINY IN MOROCCO FOUR HUNDRED SENTENCED TO DEATH Preii Aitociation—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 21. A sensational despatch from Fez has been published in Berlin. It gives details of an alleged mutiny in tho Foreign Legion, resulting in 400 being sentenced to death, the sentence actually being carried out in forty oases, Tho 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, while the survivors were sentenced to penal servitude for life. Among those shot, it is alleged, were twenty-four Gormans, three Australians, two Bulgarians, and eleven Russians.

PROBABLY EXAGGERATED SOVIET INFLUENCE POSSIBLE [Pee United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, August 26. In reference to the London cablo_ regarding the Foreign Legion mutiny, an Auckland resident who was in the Legion sixteen years ago said the mutiny might be caused by lack of water or food, too much continued active service, or, perhaps, tho cafard—the madness brought on by boat and monotony. It seemed to him that tho mutiny report was exaggerated, for it was unlikely that a whole battalion would mu: '.ny. Since tho war there had been a large influx of Russians, and possibly Soviet propaganda had something to do with it. *