SPANISH LEGION.

Shannon News, 28 October 1921, Page 1

SPANISH LEGION.

“FED- UP” SERVICE MEN. “UNBEARABLE CONDITIONS.; 1 -4*- ■ . London, October 18. Three British former service men, led up with the unbearable conditions in the Spanish Foreign Legion, which they joined in August, have escaped from Morocco and made their way to England. They tell how the Englishmen struck until part of the promised enlistment money had been paid, and they also complain of reduced pay. They state that the rifles issued were more dangerous to themselves than the Moors, and humourously relate how the British members of the Foreign Legion astonished the ' Spanish troops, when, after drilling in the Spanish fashion, they gave an exhibition of British drill under the command of a legionary who was a former captain. Disguised as Spanish sailors, ihe trio ultimately outwitted the sentries at Melilla on. a dark night, and as stowaways travelled by a boat to Algeria.