The Cordova daily times., 1918-10-07
JOUR GUESTS OF THE FAMOUS
 FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE
Fighting Men, These, Born Under Many Flags, but Serving France with Intrepid Loyalty Detachment in America to Aid in
 Fourth Liberty Loan Drive.

| out home or family. The Legion Is our home. Who would leave such q home?"
 Captain Maurice Chastenet de Gery commands the visiting detachment. In Morocco h" won the medal of the been added for bravery He was lieutenant when this war began
 At Souain, in September, 1915, Lieu tenant de Gery lost his left leg After he had left the hospital he insisted on being returned to the field of action. He served on the staff of General Nj vellc. He was two months at Ncrdun and he won the Croix de Gurrre.
 Sergeant McWhito. whose previous military experience was gained in an Irish village" was in Serbia The allied forces w"r" rctr"ating His sec. tion had but &2 men left when it was sent against the village of BOgdanci. held by 300 Bulgarians Sergeant Nc, Whites command killed sixteen. cap tured twenty-five. and put the re maindcr of tn" 900 to flight He has been decorated twice"
 Captain Jean Drulang wears ten medals. Nothing to talk about" he declared 10 American intorvirwcrs "I was simply member of the Legion. and fought with it."
 Nothing al all, not at all, Sixteen years of service in the Foreign Legion in the French colonies. then a contin- uous service record in th" greatest war the world has known nothing to be sure, At Arras. where he was wounded. he won his way to d Cap. taincy
 One thing makes me happy" he added, 'I am of Alsacc. Soon shall be able to return to her
 Eugene Ramolrt is proud to be- a private in tn" Legion Before the war he was art director of the Opera Com ique. H." Was also an officer of rr. serves and might have held an officers rank in some other branch ol service. , But he wanted 10 fight Immediately. An exploding mine at the Sommc wounded him in the leg. Later he was wounded in the arm He wears the CroiX de Guerre with two palms
 And there is Gentil Grab, technical iy German. since his home i5 AlsaCe Nineteen years he has served in the Legion. Now his parents have been removed from their Alsatian home to some place deeper in Germany. But he looks forward to d reunion soon in an Alsace that is once again the soil of France
 One could not tell half the stories of the Foreign Legion The detach- ment that is here is but d small part of it, yet only the smallest part of their adventures ever will be written Soldiers like these do not talk read fly they fight.
 Wounded in many battles. some of them limping. all bearing the scars of campaigns are the soldiers who never retreat. They have ded. icated their lives to France, and now France has loaned them to America for a few weeks, that Americans at home may be inspired to fight as the Americans abroad are fighting
 The Foreign Legion brings to New York the original battle flag of the first regiment stationed at Sidi-Bcl- Abbes, in the Province of Oran. Algcr,
 
 orated. during the present war, with the palms of the War Cross It was first to obtain the Military Medal Then it received the Cross of the Legion dHonncur. which allowed sol ders of the Legion the privilege of wearing the red cord known as the fourrager.
 The fourroger originally was in the colors of the Military Medal, green and yellow; later changed to the red of the Legion dlIonneur, and still lat CT. because of the glory of the Legion. transformed 10 the tricolor As rapid. ly as France can find new honors and decorations for that flag and for the men who fight under it the Foreign Legion wins them.
 The Foreign Legion has been the refuge of thousands from Lorraine. barred from further service in the French army by the Treaty of Frank fort It has welcomed Germans who could no longer endure autocratic op- pression. The Poles, without country
 CCOntinucd on Page Six