Deseret Evening News | 1906-10-20 | Page 27 | Queer Story of France's Oldest Recruit

S QUEER STORY OF FRANCES OLDEST RECRUIT Special Correspondence ARtS Oct matters not P how old olt I a 11 may bt be ho 1 may circa ho be 1 a centenarIan but I if ho a a naturalIzed French Frenchman man Ilman ho he must servo his limo In the Irmy army lust just IS as It If ho 10 were the tho r ro crull cruit II In hIl bits tJI I It II Is n t con conscripted Irm army the tho French tine ni all over 18 lust put In 13 lays service wih some or COf corps either In tho field 01 In harracks harrack bor born citizen does doc his service before im ho Is ZI 21 but the tho theother other day Iho cas case ot of the broth Ors r before tim war minister They have just no an OI Onu II is 4 41 tIde the oth other r 4 10 IhO ho looked lp up the tho law He decided the they must the do their fUI or ns as ho announced thore Is nOI nothIng h Ing IngIn In tilt tho cOI law the tho age ngo ot of 1 cItizens gwo IC the tho w ore I 00 years the they still tl would tl to servo to 0 Leon Icon two to tocoro coro nUll iou I is the tho man ot of th the 1 inn for tor h he I Is time Iho oldest t recruit In iii the tho French army The Tho hatch ot of re recruits lie ho Is learnIng the tho Joo e tel not Olt out ot It their tons teens rho hat has heon In iii the of oC hl hits company alil antI strangely out ot of Irr hi his brother 40 0 years old has hns JIU just his bits 1 13 dof days with tim colors The WOrl bor born In Poland hit shile they vero still young Om dil their pa parents nt emigrated to In France Leon Icon 11 lug lIed gIrls 01 have families ot of grownup children rhio du to enter hl bits son on 1 17 at one o of time the go goy s technical lolet limit ut when I it waR Wan 0 u 11 that tho ho pupils fattier WM w n not nol bor born in 10 France the tho son on 1115 untIl lon Leon hind taken out SO soon n I tho naturalized French Id ed niu they ero conscrIpt conscrIpted that 1 ta lon lion Leon Icon hn broken brokon the Iho In conscripts Two of his on their last year er therefore nrc senior to 10 their lists father on tile tho war