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OUR 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.
A transport from Franco landed last
week at an American port. A crowd
of men and women, assembled to greet
relatives and friends from abroad.
I amt others attracted by the presence
of a military band, gazed with curios
ity when a tile of khaki-clad warriors,
in mustard-colored trench helmets,
I tiled down the gangplank.
They were not Americans, not Eng
lish. not Italian, nor Belgian, that was
plain Their coats were cut long
enough to reach their knees. Their
1 legs were swathed in puttees, and
, each man wore on his left shoulder
'a red cord swinging under the armpit.
They had canteens with blue canvas
coverings, and all their accoutrement
suggested foreign lands.
Then the Tricolor of France was
unfurled before them, a rugged Tri
color. bearing bits of ribbon and metal
decorations, toys that nations bestow
Only in recognition of the highest
courage
"Why. of course, they are French'"
a woman exclaimed.
■French they are French!"
The word passed through the gath
ering Men removed their hats and
cheered There was hand dapping.
The band that had played “The Star
Spangled Banner" sc "tick into "La
.Marseillaise," and at a word of com
mand bayonets flashed to position and
ritb s were raised in salute.
Ab, but these were lighting men!
One could see that at a giant.sir
red facts lined deeply; bristling imp
laches anti boards; fearless eyes that
glowed in tin- shadow of the basin like
helmet •
Sure, they're French!" shrilled a
juvenile onlooker who had climbed to
a point of vantage at the rear of the
crowd. It'.- more of them I’ollys that
are helping I’olshing lick the Loi
mans!"
One of the "Frenchmen" was talk
mg n> a *1 v 111 i 111 ii' spune "iii i
brogue that was unmistakable.
Any previous military oxperionc
he echoed "Well only such as you’d
get by growing up in an Irish village,
but isn’t that plenty, now?” Me
Sergeant Michael Me*White.
Another was a Belgian; still an
other spoke with an accent unmistak
ably Knglish And progress of the
company of ins was held up two hours
because immigration authorities dis
covered that several men were of (Her
man and Austrian birth!
And yet the crowd was right (Her
mans. Austrians. Irish. Knglish. Kgyp
tip'll. Moroccan, these men were all
French at heart and soul. French by
every proof of deed a man can give.
They were of the Foreign Legion,
subject of song and story and legend
for generations; the Foreign Legion
that fought in Africa, in Tonkin, in
Dahomey, in the Sudan. Madagascar,
and Crimea; the Legion that gave its
| blond for Italian freedom in 1 Sf»l*; the
Legion that won the hatred of (Jer
; many in INTO, a legion served so de
votedly in this war by those splendid
i young Americans. Alan Seeger, poet;
Kenneth Weeks. Kiflln Koekwell. Hus
sell Kelly. Frank Whitmore, and many
ot hers
These were the legionaires of whom
it was said "The folds of their tlag
are not broad enough to hold their
claims to glory "
For the first time members of the
Foreign Legion, the lodestar of every
soldier of fortune on the globe, have
come to America They are here to
aid the campaign for the Fourth Lib
erty Loan campaign.
Lieutenant Alexis Heritier express
es the spirit of the Legion. He is still
j in its service, though a higher rank
in another unit lias been offered to
him He is a Legionary, though he
has been wounded in the foot, in the
arm. and finally laid low by a bullet
close to the heart. He is a Chevalier
of the Legion of Honor, and wears two
palms on his Croix do (Juerre. His
Moroccan medal bears two bars, and
beside it is the decoration of an of
ficer of the Nicham Alacuite. The Sul
tan of Morocco bestowed another med
al. which makes him Chevalier of the
Order of Hafldien. *
"But 1 would not leave the* legion.”
he said. "Most of us are men with
out home or family. The Legion is
our home. Who would leave such a
home?"
Captain Maurice Chastenet de (Jery
commands lie* visiting detachment.
In Morocco he won the medal of the
Legion of Honor. Two palms have
been added for bravery. He was a
lieutenant when this war began
At Souain. in September, linn. Lieu
tenant de Clerv 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 N'i
velle. He was two months at Verdun,
and lie won the Croix de Guerre
Sergeant M<-White, whose previous
military experience “was gained in an
Irish village.' was in Serbia The
allied force, were retreating His sec
tion had but ::l» men left when if was
sent against tin* village* of llogdami.
held by Bulgarians Sergeant Mr
White's command killed sixteen, cap
tured twenty live, ami put tin re
mainder of the :;uo to flight He has
been decorated t u ice.
Captain .ban Inulang wear len
medals. • Nothing to talk about." In*
d ee la re d to Am- 11 an interv i«*wer I
was simply a member of the Legion,
and fought with it."
Nothing at all. not at all! Sixteen
years of service in tin* Foreign Legion
in the French colonies, then a contin
uous service record in the greatest
war the world has known nothing
to be sure! At Anas, when lie wa
wounded, he won his ua> to a Cap
fainey.
“One thing make me happy. In
added. “I am of Alsace Soon I hall
he able to return to her “
Kugene Kamel, t is proud t-. b> a
private in tin* Legion lb-tor. tie* war
he was art director of tin i ip.-i .i Com
bine. I !•* was also an oltic» i of r.
serves and might hav- le id an otk< r
rank in some other biam h ot .-rviee
I Pi I he vuii'i-iI In M'lu i M i in. , 11 . r. • I v
Ail exploding mine at the Somme
wounded him in tin- leg Lat**r hr was
wounded in the arm IP wears the
Croix de Guerre with two palms
And there is Gentil Grab, technical
ly a German, since his home is Alsace,
Nineteen years he* has served in the
le gion Now his parents have been
removed from their Alsatian home to
sonic* place* deeper in Germany. Ilut
h» looks forward to a re union soon
in an Alsace* that is once- again tin
soil of France
One could not te•! 1 half tin* stories
of ihe* Foreign Legion. The* detach
ment that is here* is hut a small part
of it. yet only the- smallest part of
their adventure-, e ver will hr written.
Soldiers like* these* do not talk read
ily they light
Wounded in many battles, some* of
them limping, all hearing the* scars
of campaigns these are the soldiers
who never retreat. They have ded
icated their lives to France, and now
France has loaned them t<» America
for a few weeks, that Americans at
home may l»«• inspired to tight as the
American* abroad are* lighting
Tin* Foreign Legion brings to New
York tlo- original battle flag of the*
first regiment stationed at Sidi Bel
Abbes, in th** Province* of Oran. Alger
ia. This flag has been repeatedly dec
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 «>f the*
Legion d'Honneur. which allowed sol
diers 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 d'Honneur. and still 1 at
er. because of the* glory of the* Lc*gion.
transformed to the* tricolor As rapid
ly as France can find new honors ami
decorations for that flag and for the*
men who tight under it the* Foreign
Legion wins them.
'fin* 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
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