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AUSTRIA: Unser Anton

In Vienna a shrewd, cantankerous old gentleman died at the age of 93. Throughout Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, stiff-backed, military men grew grave at the news, then flooded the press of Central Europe last week with waves of reminiscence. For General Anton von Galgotzy, of the Imperial Army of Austria-Hungary, deceased, was a character, perhaps the most original, outspoken, best loved officer ever to wear the gold collar of a General of Division. In an army proud of its title of "the best dressed army...

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