THE FOREIGN LEGION
RELEASE OF DESERTER. an act of courtesy. (British Official Wireless.) <Pres» Association H' roiuitruph ('opynght.) RUGBY, December 19. The Foreign Secretary was asked in the House of Commons if his attention had been called to a statement that John Harvey, of Cardiff, who was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for deserting from the Foreign Legion, and had been released by the French Government on the appeal of "the British Government, was to be sent back to the legion to complete his unexpired service. Sir Austen Chamberlain replied that, according to his information, the statement referred to was incorrect. Harvey would be released from his military obligation ns soon as the usual formalities in connection with his discharge had been com. Sir Austen Chamberlain again expressed the thanks of the British Government to the French Government for this act of courtesy, and said : “ I may add that an Englishman who voluntarily joins the Foreign Legion under another jurisdiction cannot expect that this Government can interfere.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20287, 21 December 1927, Page 9
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