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Show GERMANS OF FOREIGN LEGION. Once more a great fuss Is being mado in Germany over the recruiting ot the Foreign Legion of France among Germans. During tho debate on the army budget in tho Reichstag General vou Hcerlngton commented bitterly on the German newspapers which advertised the legion. Its ranks; he said, were mainly reinforced by German deserters. This was the signul for a savage newspaper campaign The journals are calling upon tho government dally to exnet from the French authorities guarantees that they will nccept no ntoro German recruits. These appeals ap-peals uro coupled with the bitterest and most insulting expressions regarding re-garding France and her army. Tho Cologne Gazette Is one of the roost vociferous assailants. It maintains that tho acceptance of Germans In the French army is contrary to German Ger-man law, French law and Intrenalion-al Intrenalion-al law. The French papers rctorc that this Is nonsense. Any country Is entitled to tako all comers as soldiers If it so desires. It adds that tho mason why Germans prefer the French servlca to their own and desert to join it is that German soldiers are 111 fed, overworked over-worked and brutally treater by their officers. Os for the allegation that Germnny is the main source of recruits for tho Foreign Legion, some figures from the station at Mezlercs arc given In contradiction. Of all the applications applica-tions to Join In February of this year only eight men five Germans, ono Swiss, one Austrian and ono Hcl-gian Hcl-gian were found fit for the service and enlisted. New York Sun. nn |