Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09
THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society

Austrian Tyrol is one of Europe's healthieSt provinces Ill the northern parts the air drifts pure and cool. from the haunts of the glacier and pungent with fir and pine; and in the south it is soft with Mediterranean sunshine and fragrant with orange and lemon. This land of a wonderfully close-woven texture of mountains, Va.llege and rock needles is claiming the worlds inter est during these days of rumors Of war as a possible addition to the already vast, areas serving as theatres of war. Though Tyrol is a land alT deserv- ing of the artist, the sportsman, the vacationist, and the mentally or phvsi- cally ailine.- though it is a country where Nature has been overlavish with beauty, where the timbered mountain shoulders are filled with game. where dangerous ascents may be made with out number, where the choicest Of tours are to be enjoyed at far lower cost than can be accomplished amid the more thoroughly eommercialtzed there are more than $50 registered
 health resorts; it, nevertheless, has
 been comparatively neglected. more especially by Americans.
 Austrian Tyrol forms a considerable tpart of the forbidding and difficult boundary that runs between Italy and Austria. It Is 8 barrier more effective than the Vosges barrier between Ger many and France, or than the Car pathian barrier between Hungary and 1 Galic1a. Austrian Tyrol is 1e305 square l miles of Alpine mountains etched with a wonderful and intricate design of valleys. While. there are fewer fakes
 while the highest Tyrolese stsnmit 17,790 feet above the sea level, falls 1 far behind the monarchs of the Swiss
 Alps. yet the Austrian crownland al xnfo av.f son with it's neighbor
 Among the rock-strewn gullies of l Tyrol Dante found the materials for his picture of the entrance hell The main chain of the Alps crosses | this region from east to west, and around 1t on all sides Is wild chaos
 of rock masses. Tyro1, though small 1 has more sorts of climate within its
 Borders than any other part of Europe There are parts of the crownland where the winters are those of northeast Si-
 beria and the summers are those o1
 Franz Joseph Land. There are other
 parts, more southern where an An dalusian languor is hardly freshened by recurring winter.
 | Tyrol is primarily a pasture land 1 There is a little farming within the
 sheltered valleys, and some numbering
 but, for the most part, the population
 depends for support upon it's fiockz | and herds. Modelling and Alpine bells
 may be heard to an even greater ad- vantage in this country than fl Switzerland. Moreover, there is 6
 goats milk cheese prepared by the l peasants of Tyrol that equals in it,
 mellow, fragrant beauty any produc
 made of milk, whether from Altenburg Ldmberg. Erie. Neufchatel or Roque' fort.
 Famous for their devotion to thu I Roman Catholic religion and for theil fervent loyalty to the House of Aus tria. the Tyrolese are one of the sturd fest peoples on the continent. The! are renowned as marksmen and a. mountaineers, and the Tyro1eSe noun tain batteries form one of the mos lfavorably known military organization
 in the world. The population of tn crownland numbers about 10000, O whom more than half are German I speaking. There is a large Italian speaking population in the valleys O
 the south.