Paris, Sept, 11.
Rallying to the call of patriotism, 50,000 Czechs in France had already enrolled In the Czechoslovak Legion being formed here to fight with the JAllles against the Reich, the Czech Minister, M. Stephen Osusky, told the press today.
'The Legion, he added, was not volunteers' army, but a national army ike that of any other country.
Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Germans, but juridically remain Jed independent, " he emphasized. France had agreed to recognize all enrolled. Czech citizens in France as soldiers of an allied nation fighting fide by side with herself, Great Britain and Poland.
'Czechs from the United States and Britain, M. Osusky declared, would shortly' reinforce the Legion, which to be commanded by General Tngre, chief of the Czech Legion Jwhich fought in France during the First Great War.—Havas.
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