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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12461, 10 February 1909, Page 2

.- A mysterious incident happened shortly after midnight recently when fifty deserters from the Algerian For■jigri Legion, held" Up- a train near Oran. rhe train was -■ running from Colomb Bechar towards Bon Rached, and was ibout' loo yards from the station" when bhe engine driver saw a red lantern on bhe line and .stopped. The passengers put Itheir heads out of : the winiows and saw. to their. •■ astonishment md alarm, fifty .soldiers of the Foreigh degiph standing -with fixed bayonets, twenty-five on either side of the train. A: man in: the uniform of a lieutenant jtood. on a hillock and wns ih cr.m-! nand.