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IN THE FOREIGN LEGION

BY
ERWIN ROSEN
Publisher's logo
LONDON
DUCKWORTH & CO.
HENRIETTA ST. COVENT GARDEN
1910
All rights reserved
Printed by Ballantyne & Co. Limited
Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London
PROLOGUE
Once upon a time there was a young student at a German University who found life too fresh, too joyous, to care very much for professors and college halls. Parental objections he disregarded. Things came to a climax. And the very next "Schnelldampfer" had amongst its passengers a boy in disgrace, bound for the country of unlimited possibilities in search of a fortune.
The boy did not see very much of fortune, but met with a great deal of hard work. His father did not consider New York a suitable place for bad boys, and booked him a through passage to Galveston. There the ex-student contracted hotel-bills, feeling very much out of place, until a man who took a fancy to him gave him a job on a farm in Texas. There the boy learnt a good deal about riding and shooting, but rather less about cotton-raising. This was the beginning. In the course of time he became translator of Associated Press Despatches for a big German paper in St. Louis and started in newspaper life.
From vast New York to the Golden Gate his new profession carried him: he was sent as a war correspondent to Cuba, he learned wisdom from the kings of journalism, he paid flying visits to small Central American republics whenever a new little revolution was in sight. Incidentally he acquired a taste for adventure. Then the boy, a man now, was called back to the Fatherland, to be a journalist, editor and novelist. He was fairly successful. And a woman's love came into his life.
But he lost the jewel happiness. The continual fight for existence and battling for daily bread of his American career, so full of ups and downs, was hardly a good preparation for quiet respectability. Wise men called him a fool, a fool unspeakable, who squandered his talents in light-heartedness. And finally a time came when even his wife to be could no more believe in him. The jewel happiness was lost.
The man at any rate recognised his loss; he recognised that life was no longer worth living. A dull feeling of hopelessness came over him. And in his hour of despair he remembered the blood of adventure in his veins. A wild life he would have: he would forget.
He enlisted as a soldier in the French Foreign Legion.
That man was I. I had burned my boats behind me. Not a soul knew where I was. Those who loved me should think that I was dead. I lived the hard life of a lgionnaire; I had no hopes, no aspirations, no thought for the future; I worked and marched, slept, ate, and did what I was ordered; suffered the most awful hardships and bore all kinds of shameful treatment. And during sleepless nights I dreamed of lovelove lost for ever.
Some five hundred years I wore the uniform of the Legion. So at least it seemed to me.
Thenthe great change came. One day there was a letter for me.
Love had found me out across a continent. I read and read and read again.
That was the turning-point of my life. I broke my fetters, and I fought a hard fight for a new career.
Now the jewel happiness is mine.
Erwin Rosen
Hamburg , 1909
CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I
LGIONNAIRE!
In Belfort : Sunrays and fear : Madame and the waiter : The French lieutenant : The enlistment office of the Foreign Legion : Naked humanity : A surgeon with a lost sense of smell : "Officier Allemand" : My new comrades : The lieutenant-colonel : A night of tears
CHAPTER II
L'AFRIQUE
Transport of recruits on the railway : What our ticket did for us and France : The patriotic conductor : Marseilles : The gate of the French Colonies : The Colonial hotel : A study in blue and yellow : On the Mediterranean : The ship's cook : The story of the Royal Prince of Prussia at Saida : Oran : Wine and lgionnaires : How the deserter reached Spain and why he returned
CHAPTER III
LGIONNAIRE NUMBER 17889
French and American bugle-calls : Southward to the city of the Foreign Legion : Sidi-bel-Abbs : The sergeant is not pleased : A final fight with pride : The jokes of the Legion : The wise negro : Bugler Smith : I help a lgionnaire to desert : The Eleventh Company : How clothes are sold in the Legion : Number 17889
CHAPTER IV
THE FOREIGN LEGION'S BARRACKS
In the company's storeroom : Mr. SmithAmerican, lgionnaire, philosopher : The Legion's neatness : The favourite substantive of the Foreign Legion : What the commander of the Old Guard said at Waterloo : Old and young lgionnaires : The canteen : Madame la Cantinire : The regimental feast : Strange men and strange things : The skull : The prisoners' march : The wealth of Monsieur Rassedin, lgionnaire : "Rehabilitation" : The Koran chapter of the Stallions
CHAPTER V
THE MILITARY VALUE OF THE FOREIGN REGIMENTS
A day's work as a recruit : Allez, hurry up! : The Legion's etiquette : A morning's run : The "cercle d'enfer" and the lack of soap : The main object of the Legion's training : Splendid marchers : Independent soldiers : Forty kilometres a day : Uniform, accoutrements, baggage, victualling : The training of the lgionnaire in detail : The lgionnaire as a practical man : Specialties of the Legion : Programme for a week in the Legion : The lgionnaire as a labourer
CHAPTER VI
"THE LEGION GETS NO PAY"
The money troubles of the Legion : Five centimes wages : The cheapest soldiers of the world : Letters from the Legion : The science of "decorating" : The industries of the lgionnaires : What the bugler did for a living : The man with the biscuits : A thief in the night : Summary lynch law : Herr von Rader and la Cantinire : "The Legion worksthe Legion gets no pay!"
CHAPTER VII
THE CITY OF THE FOREIGN LEGION
The daily exodus to town : Ben Mansur's coffee : The Ghetto : The citizens of Sidi-bel-Abbs and the lgionnaires : How the Legion squared accounts with the civilians : A forbidden part of the town : Primitive vice : A dance of a night : The gardens : The last resting-place of the Legion's dead
CHAPTER VIII
A HUNDRED THOUSAND HEROESA HUNDRED THOUSAND VICTIMS
The hall of honour : A collection of ruined talents : The battle of Camaron : A skeleton outline of the Legion's history : A hundred thousand victims : A psychological puzzle : True heroes : How they are rewarded : The chances of promotion : The pension system of the Foreign Legion
CHAPTER IX
"MARCH OR DIE!"
The Legion's war-cry : A night alarm : On the march : The counting of the milestones : Under canvas : The brutality of the marches : The lgionnaire and the staff doctor : My fight for an opiate : The "marching pig" : The psychology of the marches : Excited nerves : The song of imprecations
CHAPTER X
THE MADNESS OF THE FOREIGN LEGION
An unpleasant occurrence : The last three coppers : The Roumanian Jew from Berlin : Monsieur Viasse : The Legion's atmosphere : The Cafard demoniacs : Bismarck's double : Krgerle's whim : The madness of Lgionnaire Bauer : Brutal humour : A tragedy
CHAPTER XI
THE DESERTERS
The Odyssey of going on pump : Death in the desert : The Legion's deserters : A disastrous flight in a motor-car : The tragic fate of an Austrian engineer : In the Ghetto of Sidi-bel-Abbs : The business part of desertion : Oran and Algiers : The Consulate as a trap : The financial side of desertion : One hundred kilometres of suffering : Hamburg steamers : Self-mutilation : Shamming : In the Suez Canal : Morocco, the wonder-land
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