SUICIDE PREFERABLE

Northern Advocate, 23 May 1928, Page 3

SUICIDE PREFERABLE

TO LIFE WITH THE LEGION,

Fugitives from the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, James Martin an I Charles le Clair, two sun-bronzed Englishmen, landed safely at Tilbury. Both were formerly captains in the British army, and Mr le Clair won the military Cross and a bar during the war. ‘‘Life in the Legion was so intolerable and the pay so inadequate,” he declared, “that we decided the only thing to do was to quit. We secured a good start in the only possible way—by obtaining special leave for 21 hours. The first stage of our journey was done by motor car in pouring rain. Then we took

a long train journey, anil the next stage was a walk of 43 miles to a town in the Spanish zone of Morocco. We were footsore, hungry, and nearly

dead with cold by the time we reached —Heaven knows how! —Spanish territory. Martin had been in the Legion 1?. months, I advise any one who is tired of life to jump into the nearest river rather than enlist in the Legion.”