THE FOREIGN LEGION
GERMANS BEHIND KRIM ROMANTIC FIGURES REVEALED HARSHNESS CAUSES DESERTIONS By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.— Copyright. Received November 2, 11.30 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 2. Reuter’s Tangier correspondent says: Advices from Arab and French sources show that tho moving spirit behind the Riff resistance is an ex-captain of tho Prussian Guard, who joined the French Foreign Legion before the war as Iho result of a scandal and deserted to th'e Riffians in 1921. Ten Gennian deserters from the Riffs surrendered this week. They complain bitterly of Abd el Krim’s harshness, j'lhey declared that he shoots the fainti hearted without the slightest compunc- ’ tion. I The Riffian chief artillery officer i* a Serbian ex-colonel.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19445, 3 November 1925, Page 7
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