REPORTED MUTINY
IN FOREIGN LECTION
DEATH SENTENCE PENALTY (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) London, Aug. 24. A sensational despatch from Fez (Morocco) lias been published ill HerTin. It gives details of an al'eged mutiny in the Foreign Legion resulting iu 4(10 being sentenced to death. The sentence was actually carried out in 40 cases. The whole battalion mutinied when about to go into acfiilon. Every man was disarmed and sentenced and according to the French custom, one in every ten was told to fa'l out and was shot. Tlie survivors were sentenced to life penal servitude. Among those shot, it is alleged, were 24 Germans, three Australians, two Bulgarians and 11 Russians.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2668, 26 August 1930, Page 6
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