FOREIGN LEGION MUTINY
BATTALION DECIMATED AND FORTY SHOT AUSTRALIANS INCLUDED LONDON, Sunday. A sensational dispatch from Fez, Morocco, has been published in Berlin. It gives details of an alleged mutiny in the Foreign Legion, resulting in 400 men being sentenced. Death sentences were actually carried out in 40 cases, according to the dispatch, which alleges that those shot comprised 24 Germans, 3 Australians. 2 Bulgarians and 11 Russians. An entire battalion is said to have mutinied when about to go into action. Every man was disarmed and sentenced. According to the French custom one man in every 10 was told to fall out and was shot. The survivors were sentenced to penal servitude for life.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1060, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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115FOREIGN LEGION MUTINY Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1060, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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