PATRIOTIC PEASANTS’ ACTING IN FILM FIGHTS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6945, 26 June 1929, Page 3

PATRIOTIC PEASANTS’ ACTING IN FILM FIGHTS

NEARLY 40 SOLDIERS INJURED. TYROLESE FIRED WITH SPIRIT OF ANCESTORS. Thirty-seven casualties were treated by anibulanco men at Innsbruck, in Tyrolese territory, says a Vienna correspondent at the ‘Battle of Berg Isel on May 0. . Tho casualties occurred not m course of an attempted the Tyrolese "Hoimwchr,” a battle between 3,000 Tynde&SßMW® ants and tho Tyrolese Alpbbjwdtfßli Regiment No. 12. The battle was, of course,daction of tho historic fight of tjto Tyrolese for freedom under Aadr<jß& llofer against,Napoleon’s French ail® Bavarian troops in 1809, and waj nia'dg lor a Munich' Ate company. }. m No difficulty, was Experienced in obj tainiug 3,000 Tyrdiese m®untaiuccrsj.a& volunteers to represent Androas ; er’s peasant army. But jit pi'ovo| rj v|||j' possible to obtain representatives the French and Colonel Wolff agreed to loud of his regiment to play tho unpopapn role. Memories of Hofer are ; -#i strong, however, that tho peasantpf feelings got the hotter of reason. TI Sweeping down the mountainside and carrying the muskets and banuefti which they have inherited as lic-irloornSj the spirit of their ancestors entered into tho peasants. T]ic Austrian troo|| of 192.9 uniformed as the French at®? Bavarians of 1809, were compelled 40 flee in real earnest, like their prote- : types, through the streets of old Inttaj bruck. jil Before the fury of the purs-uora' could be stayed, 37 soldiers had beett put out of action.