The Archive · 1937

American Battalion

Perpignan, June 15.

Loyalists are forming a third battalion of American volunteers, it was learned to-day. The battalion has not been named yet, as the sponsors fail to agree on Patrick Henry or Thomas Jefferson The United Press informant visited the training grounds of the unit on the east coast of Spain and found between 200 and 300 Americans, garbed in sombreros and shorts, holding a barbecue on the field.

Sports contests were under with prizes of cigarettes awarded the winner.—United

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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