Shanghai, Mar. 20.
TER an arduous trip of si: ix days direct to Shanghai from Indo-China during which, in the words of one of their number, they were "packed like sardines" in the hold of the s. Laos of the Messageries Maritimes, 50 young legionnaires of the French Foreign Legion in the Far East were landed here yesterday "broke" and bereft even of the civilian clothes they had when they' volunteered for service from China, Life in the Legion became unbearable, one of the men disclosed, when they were placed under the orders of German petty officers sent from. French possessions in north Africa, whd submitted 0 them. to a most degrading routine and compelled the men to do thi 1 most menial of work.
Of the 60 legionnaires who returned to China and who are mostly Shanghat and Tientsin boys who had joined to fight the Nazis in the Far East for the duration of the war, the majority are Slavs, thd rest being made up of German Jewish refugees, Greeks, and two Britons.
The contingent from China sent to} Indo-China distinguished" -themselves during their eighteen months service with the Legionnaires, one of the men being the recipient of the Croix de Guerre for conspievous gal lantry in thie Wield. He held a party of Siamese at bay in the recent Tha! land fighting and obdurately refused to yield an inch of ground to the enemy.
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