BATTALION OF REBELS
FOREIGN LEGION MUTINY DEATH SENTENCE FOE 400. THREE AUSTRALIANS INCLUDED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright ) LONDON, Aug. 24. A sensational despatch from Ecz lias been published in Berlin. It gives details of an alleged mutiny in the Foreign Legion resulting in 400 legionaries being sentenced to death. The sentence was actually carried out in 40 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 24 Germans, three Australians, two Bulgarians and 11 Russians.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 August 1930, Page 5
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