Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-13

those grim Qualifications which face each other in long rows across Alpine valleys came home to us: then only we sensed the bitter reality of the soldiers calling-w Co whom the horrors of war were happily unknown. Forts until then (the outbreak of Flu ropes war) had been nconsidered save as they interfered with picture making the soldiers life had appear ed solely from its picturesque side
 "One might think that the great chain of the Alps would themselves be sufficient fertilization a natural bulwark between north and south, be- tween Saxon and Latin. But the pine has ever yearned for the palm. the palm for the pine; invaders there have been from either side: to today a line of forts runs bristling over the peaks, passes and highways like cat teasers upon a stone wall"
 Forts along the Swiss-ltalo frontier are incOnspicuous. the writer contin- .ues. though it is possible that Italy maintains as proportionately strong deienses here as upon her Austrian or French frontiers However. she makes less fuss about her Swiss line .of defense France. the writer says, lis a little more modest: for she re- quests the kodaker not to trespass up- on certain territory nor photograph in certain directions. But there is far more earnestness on tho Austroltal- ian frontier
 Tn Austria, Make no excuse, for there is nonel 'Verboten.' expres ssed worldly in four languages. lines the road for a mile on either side of for tifications or frontier One may not only not sketch or photograph in that direction. but is forbidden to do SO in any other direction from that vicin- Iity
 Before two thoughts have been as- sembled a soldier appears out of no where, and a more or less gruff voice | admonishes the lngerer to move on Rigid as are the orders in Austria and ! peremptory the notices. l have never. theless photographed more than once In the shadow of a fort with no more rebuke than a mischievous threat from the finger of an observant of 1 Gcer; yet a friend who merely ling cred for a moment to study the geo logical formation near Pieve di Liyin allonga was passed literally iron hand 10 hand by soldiers until he wa, | safely from the frontier"
 Mrs. Albrecht tells of the wonderful
 efficient soldiers of Austrian Tyrol
 the Kaiserjager Omperial Hunters
 of whom many notices have com, from the Carpathians and from Bos mia, where Montenegrins. most famed among mountain fighters, met thei
 match in Tyrolese Kaiserjager. o q these corpsmen, Mrs. Albrecht says
 Recruited solely in Tyrol. accus
 toned 10 its high attitudes and iti steep mountain sides from babyhood hunters by birth, they need little dril save in the code and manual of arms | Up the thickly wooded steep noun tain sides they scramble quicker thar the sturdy sure-footed ponies whici
 carry the light artillery they use
 and, in case of need, many of the mer
 can themselves shoulder a small can
 non on a days climb. Inured to th,
 hardest of beds and of fare, imbuet with a deep love Of country pious al
 most to superstition and superstition. almost to a point Of uncanny fear
 fond of a rough joke and roughei
 dancing singing maryelously sweet and true, not very quock-witted pos sibly, but swift-footed and thorough
 they are an efficient body of men both in appearance and service"