THE GARIBALDI LEGION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 89, 17 April 1915, Page 4

THE GARIBALDI LEGION.

The Garibaldi Legion is a good deal heard of of late. Its head and leader is General Kicciotti Garibaldi, a son of the great Garibaldi,and a British subject,being a citizen of the State of Victoria, British Columbia. Though six-ty-eight years of age and so bent with years and illness that he is unable to walk without the aid of crutches, he is toiling unceasingly in the effort to raise a force of thirty thousand men to light against the Germans, and even 1 talks of taking the hold himself.j Though General Garibaldi represents no Italian Party, lie is a great friend i of France and England. He fought, in the Franco-Prnssian war, and onej of his pleasantest memories is the capture of a German flag. Two of his] sons have faTJen for France in this’ war. While the General is busy recruiting, his Legion is doing great! deeds in France. “One of the three battalions is commanded by a subaltern, a section by a corporal,” says an Italian writer of a parade of the Legion at the front. “The Legion has sacrificed itself with an impulsive generosity. . . Men, diverse, belonging to all parts of Italy, with wide gulfs of character, habits, culture, education, sensibility, have burned with the same flame, like boughs stripped from a tree and cast upon onei pyre. The tradition has fused them.”