Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-30
THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION

"A q l ne uu not say WarnKe or bancosi the idea he wished to CONVEX was much more subtle
~ ~ Thssa phaomMonh at@ escapes the attention of most epe-wome bowMr ~
w serve it Practically every nnmltaym man at the sight of well set up fully ACQUIRED
soldier msuncdyey assumes something of military bearing And when the drums nn
and a marching column of sodHs flashes into view the civilian hVolunaruv throws bL
his shoulders and step out with a tense measne1t tread
And as with Williams so with soldiers The. ordinary regimen beomes more military the rs
e0 fue crack regiment Thee crack rJment itself gains something more whn in proximity to a
detachment troops of heroic almost legendary m such as the Foreign L@on.
The LegomMHsh handle campaigns of their own and probably mo body of hoomh has eygrd Hb
and arduous campaigning But France over and over again has used hem also as eawn
among other troops They sitter Their mass and men emulate their actions T#
had been expected oft btd lid reflect great credit on the judgment of hose who had sent It out
to help inspire a whole my
The queer of Spain 80 years ago vast a hard fix wtha civil war on her hands, The CniHs
whom she was fighting weej H as good sokiHsGSh her on If nta sde beer Then the Queens
genaash had an inspiration of genius If hey could only get the French Foreign Legion into their
they htt the shade of advantage would move over to their side. So the queen bought he Foreign
Legion rom the them king of France, and for -four years the Legion belonged to SPAIN
and Aaaa and to thu DmdaneesP Part it remains in "A na its normal habitat doing some mighty
vtoromc campaigning the Moroccan part of frances wonderful new African empre
The Americans sand other foreigners who Tee enrolled as volunteers in the French army are put in
contact with the LegomMesa and this while giving them @opef r their fghhng qualities and assuring
them an opportunity for genuine campaigning the highest measure Of rpecdonf for them It eumnc
tees them against foolish freshness as we'll gamt being led into traps or hng their eadm crtcl
moments.
winds may be- different on each trip and the craft is never handled vice in the same way but the en
pert kwedg of the technique of his trade makes tn Legonay and the skipper each acmth himself
of his task in finished ashton M
omcany the Foreign Legion is composed Of eight thousand men, In r@my It's understood II has
nearly double that number, and the LEGION becomes readily whoea ry cTs with the addition of
some Of Frances colonial Tps
France for Hundreds of years had regiments Of German, English, hhS Scotch swiss Italians and
IRON 1871 One brief rule in its constitution says that the enHng cdone may accept a man ever
he dos not present a birth certificate or Identification papers Wherefore the names Of the
and American egonanesh have been Smith, Brown and Jones; Of Germans fuller Schwartz
and Weiss; of the italians Roi and GDs; of the French, Peot, Legmmd ac Lecarc and SO on
e% Ther recruiting om@Tp reads the candidate a warning lecture Don't you know what the Legion is
surely there is something better you can To- Severe campaigning in Anca or in CDa for
sou a day or few sous as you enn advance no bed of roses You'll bette think II over
he nov speaks as cdme to his soldier: There is "a gorousca career down there for the right kind IL
YOU are a good and faithful soldier you may go far Good uck!"
The recruiting cMnA can generally tell at a glance what amy the candidate has served in land
II he has been sergeant or nomcerm the latter cseh is dhcreehy questioned on the pomt and
n IL sugeged. for his on benft that he comdentany inform his colonel when he arrives at he
raining quarters in Ahba One who has beer an o@rm European army is usually taken into he
coponls las. md nay advanced within couple Of years TO be sergeant otheL Legion