Francois-Poncet, to-day energetically protested to the Foreign Office against the allegations in the German press that detachments of the French Foreign Legion had been sent to Spain He described the repor i as "lies." and expressed astonishment at their continued publication after a French officio! clementi The reports. wh had appeared in the official Nazi organ, the "Voelkischer Beobachter" were scouted at ihe Legion depot at Marseilles to The commander at Fort St. Jean declared: "These Legionaries are probably like the ghost Russian army which passed through London at night during the Great War."—Reuter.
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