MUTINY IN MOROCCO.
FOREIGN LEGION BATTALION REFUSE DUTY. 400 SENTENCED TO DEATH. FRENCH CUSTOM. (Received Monday, 7.5 p.m.) ■ LONDON, August 24. A sensational despatch from Fez has been published in Berlin. It gives details of an alleged mutiny in the Foreign Legion, resulting in four hundred being sentenced to death, the sentence actually bein~ carried out in forty 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 twenty-four Germans, three Australians, two Bulgarians and eleven Russians.
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Wairarapa Age, 26 August 1930, Page 5
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