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Show Bennett Doty Happy With Foreign. Legion Once More 1 1; I jA' . iia- . ... 1 V; t t t"" , , 1 ' 1 -! i : L t i 1 j At tho ri.L-ht is tho first pliotojrraph of Benxiotfc Duty taken since ho was pardoned. Hi; a;::iin wears the Foreign Lotion uniform. Above is tlio po:,t of the Legion's First Iie;;ini(Mit at Sidi be! Abbes, Algeria. By MFXOTT SAUNDERS XK- Serv ice Writer PARIS, Oct. 2G "I am in action arrain and I am happy." This is I prison. "The thirteen months I spent in prison, with tne siurma of being a deserter on my name, vas the hard- ; est period I have ever spent- It did not maitcr that I bore a false name, for the name represented me and I never had been a quiti.ir before. be-fore. I never shall be a quitter again." It was during the American Legion Le-gion convention in Pu"i:3 .',-X i!ie Minister of War thought 1: irny of Doty and gave him a ;jar!..t. i'.i prison, Doty had ti ied to k-p a smiling face and take his ir 'd' ji.T:. "Today my heart in i.: ct i , for I have been v i ;..ir.un' chance and I am '" " ; good," he wrote to his f i'j.'id.i. "I ! am back with my bud'.uc. u.. u c is work for us to d.- .l l.. ti:; t this winter. There v: ll Iihl.i:r;, j and that's the liTc I -2." j Doty, who enlisted oi-ir.ially ! dor the name of Gilbert Clare, is I r. It ached .to (he First RpgimtAit of t the Foreign Legion, now stationed at Sldi bel Abbk-s, Algeria. Except for his one relapse, he has had a i fine record and his messmates have accepted 'him again without asking questions, which is the custom in the Legion. Wears Croix de Guerre When he first was in Syria he I the message sent to friends in Paris by Bennett J. Doty, the Mississip-fpian Mississip-fpian who, after a brilliant record with American forces during the World War, joined tho Foreign Legion, Le-gion, deserted in Syria, spent a year in prison, and now i-j back with his regiment in Algeria after being pardoned. In letters to Paris acquaintances Doty tells his own story of the part he played in an international drama. i "I cannot stand being idle," he I said. "After the World War I , vent home, but I found life too 'lull and so I joined the French Foreign Legion. Ultimately I got to .Syria. Tnere was at first plenty of action there and I was happy vivh the work and with my pals, men from all corners of the world, who loved adventure and loved to fight. But in time we brought about comparative peace, and, in the heat of the desert, it was unendurable. unen-durable. "A Weak Moment" "In a weak moment I quit camp with two Germans and an Englishman. English-man. We were captured and each was sentenced to eight years in was given the Croix de Guerre for gallantry, with a citation that read: "Legionnaire of remarkable calmness calm-ness and sang froid and expert i Marksman. During the battle of Ccssaz, Oct. 7, 1925, he aroused great admiration from all when, walking upright and under a rain of bullets, he proceeded to attack, firing himself all the time, as indifferently in-differently as if he were on a hunt-- j ing field. He had already been re- J marked in the battle ot Messiiire, j Sept. 17, 1925." I Doty is typically a man of action; a man who can't keep still. He is a product of the wrar, unafraid but rcstVss. Although his lawyer here, uridt: "iiiiiti uctions from his relatives rela-tives in America, is working to gain his release from the Legion, he says lie does not want to be released, but wishes to remain with his pals and serve out his enlistment. He has four more years to serve. "I am much happier with the Legion Le-gion than I could ever be at home, with peace and inaction," he said. |