Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-02

themselves. from some immense Olsen
chantment?'
The truth of things has an accent, has
1t not? Now listen to Victor Revei, ex-
tracts from whose brochure are being
scattered over all Germany:
THE legionaries never receive meal
when on an expedition" And: THE le
gion does not figure either in the budgets
constitute an expense. but receipt or
gain. The French throw a veil over this
gain, not to disclose details of an UNI
heard-of exploitation"
Eat: What would we do but eat III
deadly dull peace?" swaggers Henry
present cock of the walk OF the Grand
Cafe personnel. He is all Alsatian who
has turned the trick of the two pensions
always calculating to retire in some deco
ratlve club or cafe comm1sslonalreshll
with his prestance and two medals. But
cities disgust him. He will return to the
legion.
I'VE eat better than this restaurant"
brags the former leglonary. Soup, d
dish of eggs two plates of vegetables
one high seasoned: one meat dish with
salad. dessert, coffee"
You need not take his Dragging word
Since Algiers has become u tourist para
disc Americans and Observation-Disclosures
take glance at the Foreign Legion. And
| remember the romantic wife of a great
American editor who kept three English
speaking lesiOnaries on the run at Bel
Abbes hunting a romantic case. Con-
vcrsation at the Hammam-Rira baths
turned often on the queer SormandlzlnS
of these reckless fellows. With natural
taste for high living and an equally nat
ural incapacity to keep money two days
they willingly accept the colonial pay
only when in Tonkin service, and for
the rest of it take it out in restaurant
Ike cookery, sound Algerian wine, and
lump campaign indemnities'' paid them
when least likely to blow it. Still it goes:
Srme think the system an error, and old
Dictionaries are In terror that the colo
-.aI pay, acceptable in Tonkin, where
money buys all Injuries cheap, may be
;,"nlied to expensive Alsiers.
j. X
There are but two regiments, the LIST
and the I'd, each 5000 to 1900 strong.
the Algerian frontier. one at Casablanca.
40 in Tonkin and one with the boys in
training at Saida depot.
first they find in Africa, the large life In
Tonkin, which is their Eden. Certainly.
they must be held down. being thick
skinned. So they are punished only
with prison. whose solitude impresses
Surely. there is desertion from the
legion. Like recruiting. it obeys gen
eral laws: Is there fighting? Recruits
the fighting in Manchuria? No recruits
for the legion. So with desertion-back-
ward. Are the expeditions exciting OF
even interesting? The men are perfect
But those In barracks at Cap d'Eau Oh
MeIilla-let them get to whispering OF
pleasures in strange cities, and they slip
off in droves. without reflection. When
they return, under a false name, depress-
ed and broke, their chiefs shut their eyes
because ''they are good boys" and "de
not realize"
knowing all this. their chiefs have Ions
profited by the north African situation
Everywhere are buried Roman cities
Forty such have been discovered. dug uI
and explored, with all the ardor OF Amer
lean missions in Greece or Egypt. BY
whom? By common soldiers of the foreign
Legion! When they chafe in barracks