FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1801, 14 July 1913, Page 7

FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION.

GERMAN SENTENCED FOR ENLISTING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Sydney "Sun" Special Cable Service.) Berlin, July 11. A German charged at Frankfurt with enlisting mon, on behalf of tho' French Foreign Legion was sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment for disloyalty. POACHING ON GERMAN PRESERVES. There have of lato years been many complaints that Franco has violated international law by sending agents to Germany to obtain recruits for her Foreign Legion. It has been declared that tho force consists largely of German deserters.In January last five Frenchmen were arrested at Metz, and charged with, offering Germans 350 francs (about jCU) 'each if they would join tho Legion, The Foreign Legion is a body that was formed by tho French eighty years ago for hard fighting in foreign countries. Tho legionaries are not allowed in Franca They are sent to Algeria, Morocco, Tonkin, Madagascar—wherever tho conditions of life are most intolerable, and the fighting most brutal and barbarous. The pay is wretchedly small; fivo centimes a day, or 25 centimes for the pay-roll period of five days. Twenty-five centimes are almost exactly fivo cents in American, or 2sd. in English money. Every fifth day, when the men aro paid, is humorously called the regiment's holiday. Then tho men assemble at the canteen, and enjoy themselves in their own fashion, drinking, singing, yelling,' dancing. They have wTiat they consider a good time.