FORTY SHOT
IN FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION.!
FOR BATTALION’S MUTINY
(United Press Association—By Electric >../■ Telegraph—Copyright). - LONDON, Aug. 25. A sensational despatch from Fez, Morocco, has been published in Berlin.', ■lt gives details of an alleged , mutiny in the French Foreign Legion, resultirig in four hundred (being sentenced to death,., the sentence actually
being carried out in forty cases. A whoile . battalion mutinied when about to go, into action. Every man wAs disarmed, and sentenced. According to ihe Freneh- oustom, .one in every ten was told to fall out, and was shot. ‘ The survivors were sentenced to life ' ; servitude; Among those shot, It i 4 alleged, were twenty-four Germans', three Australians, two Bulgarians, and •eleven Russians.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1930, Page 5
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114FORTY SHOT Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1930, Page 5
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