The Archive · 1939

Germans in French

Asin Foreign Legion Loss of Citizenship May Extend Their Service Paris, Feb, 22.

The result of the German decree promulgated today, which orders any stiff German joining the French Foreign Legion or ening his present term of service to be deprived of it his German nationality, is expected to be that the Germans, who comprise nearly halt of the Legion will remain in service after their initial American youth to their graves as soldiers," five years.

Or, it is suggested, they may become colonists in North Africa as so many of their compatriots have already so successfully done—Reuter.

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

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