Word: indo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should a youth volunteer to die in the burning heat of the desert, fighting for five centimes a day in a corps which has left the bones of its soldiers strewn in every quarter of the globe from Indo-China to Mexico? Flotsam recruits never explain their presence beneath the knapsack of the legionnaire, but it is not insignificant that while fighting for the far-flung Tri-color of France these romantic, scarred gentlemen rankers are protected by that banner from all extraditions. Glamorous traditions, adventure, protection...
...battle surged, five times Mexicans called on the legionnaires to surrender, five times the answer was a defiant hoot. When the relieving party arrived not a legionnaire remained. For ten hours 60 had held 2,000 while the convoy they were escorting had gone on to safety. In Indo-China a force of 390 had beaten off an entire Chinese army 7 times during a 32-day battle. General de Negrier once remarked: "Some soldiers can fight-the legionnaires...
Spaniards. Rangoon, Burma; then Bangkok, Siam; then Saigon and Hanoi, French Indo-China, strained their eyes in turn, and in turn beheld Captains Loriga and Gonzalez-Gallarza who had come all the way from their native Spain on a hopping-trip from Madrid in two planes. They were to keep hopping until they reached Manila in the Philippines. They received word that in crossing Japan the military authorities would not allow them to land on the Island of Formosa. But Japan's warning proved unnecessary. Landing at Macao, Asiatic Portugal, one flyer struck a tree; his comrade's plane...
...entered the Chamber in 1888, was its president from 1905 to 1906, and became a senator in 1912. In 1897 he was appointed Governor General of French Indo-China. From 1902 to 1904 he headed the Budget Commission. From 1921 to 1922 he was Finance Minister: also 1895-96. He is "self-made" and a bit vain of that fact; boasts that tobacco has never entered his system...
...Budget of the Chamber of Deputies, Lucien Lamoreux; Deputies, Maurice Bokanowski, Franklin-Bouillon, Vincent Auriol, Marques de Chambrun. The experts attached to the mission include Joseph Simon (Director of the Societe General, large Paris bank). Moreau Neyret (of the Ministry of Finance), Thion de Lachaume (Director of the Indo-Chinese Bank...