Show czech foreign legion reborn recalling 1917 siberian march 13 PRAGUE the czech foreign X legion lives again famed for its mile trek across russia and siberia during the world war the legion 91 on is again carrying czecho czech 0 slovakian slova kias banner of independence pen dence in an undercover under cover plot to recapture the fatherland from germany in 1916 czech troops which deserted to russia from the austro german front were finally forced to flee halfway half way around the world before they could return home through friendly territory this time deserted to poland under leadership of a veteran of the russian trek gen lev Pr chala there while the folks back in aze czechoslovakia ho slovakia watch excitedly cit edly they are drilling strong against the day when their homeland can be tree free last march when germany marched in hundreds ot of czech army officers and men some of them with equipment fled to the vic vicinity hilty of cracow chacow poland in the far eastern Car patho ukraine gen led his men in a hopeless battle against the hungarians Hung arians a nazi ukrainian organization and a frightened central prague government realizing it was a futile fight he disbanded his men sent some to poland and some to rumania end and went back to prague to watch the proceedings the czech foreign legion was wa s thus born and a few weeks later gen joined his men in poland czech youths disappear reliable reports indicate the legion is growing rapidly from almost every czech village youths are mysteriously disappearing crawling through the border and appearing in crac chacow cracow ow a few days later each volunteer receives the eq equivalent ul valent of nt as gen le lev v Pr chala veteran of the siberian trek who norv commands czech legionnaires drilling in g in poland it if he brings a czech plane to cracow chacow he gets up to meanwhile branches of the group are springing up elsewhere about ot of the czech soldiers now in poland are reportedly being transferred to french morocco at sidi bel abbes algerian headquarters of regiment composed almost exclusively r of czech army veterans has b been een organized in paris two regiments are reported what the legion will ultimately gam gain by this apparently futile ma heuver Is hard to visualize but legionnaires are content merely to try hoping the day may come when their added strength may turn the tide against germany in the war they believe is inevitable on that day they believe the independent czecho slovakia will vill be born bora again agabi |