Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-01
SOLDIERS OF ALGERIA

/ UULDlLnU VI hLuLlllh
Southern Negroes Did Not Get Alon!
With Them Very Well.
fought WITH THEIR CVERCOATS Oh
France Brought 100000 AIserians From
Africa---Wore the Uniform Of Francs
-Picturesque and PesuIiar--No Fea'
| Of Death.
1 BY Lewis M. Grist.
I Picturesque and peculiar to degree
among all the soldiers who fought iI
France were the Algerians. brought
from their far-away home in Africa y
European soil by the French to he'll
the Allies push back and crush the
Hun hordes. And they played q gal.
liant and most important part in the
crushing. It Is said that France had
100000 of them in the battlclines OF
Europe and I have no reason to doubt
| the statement. They were brave SOL
diers. Wild and naturally war-like
they sacrificed their lives with reck-
less abandon. Mohammedan 10 tnelr
religion. fighting 2 "noiy war tnes
believed (and tney. were nsnein
holy war IL any war is holy) death
meant absolutely nothing to them, be-
cause, according TO their reifSion' al
followers Of Mohammed who die IN
such war always go to heaven, re-
gardless of sins OF omission and com
mission. If such Is the case tnere are
lots OF them In heaven now because -
the early DAYS OF tne war .nes SUE =,
ed most terripie 'ri'it' losses anu ~ t a.
through tne strussie tneir it'sses ~eis
proportlonateiy great. gs.
~ Never ook .Coass soH. n.
Born ana reared IN q nos cnliate
Where ciothes "ero iiAoie i'''i :, u 2
ity than e necessary ano lDeins Nan ,
ferred 70 France Wnere tne ciillla'e en- =
almS st always cool ano most y tne
time cold, tney ceuid never eAacsiy ae-
custom themselves 70 u ens 'ali :
They wore the same ulpr UNI l az
regular French soidiers' sH' pesut
blue color Win long oVercoat VI fh, 'ie
same material saw tiiousanus = "
Algerians In various parts OF '.s rl'Ale' rslnce
during my period OF service oversees
No matter IN wnat klno 4lt Oh work shey
were engased lney never toon s .noss
oVercoa's sl aa'l'' o oii, - 'ney s go -
trencnes ire llSa1i' Vt puiiuis io0
any Work oi IKE Ae. natute 'u ma 1
nsaturaiiy cause tleni VI ia,n vsAe.
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'Gerians or whatebber you call oem
Is all dem wus de leader Oh de pro-
cesshun back home on 'Mancipatlon
day. All is happened ermons 'em quite
er little bit an ans tried 10 De socla-