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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 29

TSie Foreign Legion in the World War! An astounding fact story by a Harvard student who served wit'll the most colorful fighters on earth! / m w&mm PM \ k X 1 U> if Ten Thousand Shall FaU! - by David King - (Private Soldier L. M. 8046 of The Foreign Legion) begins OEAMS have been written about the French Foreign Legion. This swaggering, hardfisted band of warriors from God-knows-where has inspired fiction writers to the wildest flights of the imagination —but even the most exciting fiction pales into insignificance compared with the real truth about the Legion! And, at last, comes the truth—written by a Harvard student who served with that legendary collection of heroes and rogues —and was wounded and partly blinded in action! Saturday, May 3, Ten Thousand Shall Fall is a graphic, moving, amazing recital of facts! It shows the Foreign Legion as it really is—with a result that is far more astounding, far more stirring, than any imaginative novel. in The story of the Legionnaire is brutal In its Zola-ism. Yet; what would yon? War is unclean, and, like a leper of old, it should ring its bell: “Room for the leper! Room!** If you have doubted when talk has been of terror and of red death, murmuring of exaggeration, of shellshock, of nerves overstrained, this sober narrative will convince you; and it is as sober as it is sombre, as obviously genuine as it is fantastically grim. ••Illustrated London New*. It starts in where 64 A1l Quiet on the Western Front” leaves off! It’s bound to be the sensation of the year —and you can’t afford to miss it!