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Show AUSTRIAN SOLDIER 85 YEARS OF AGE Special Cable to The Tribune. VIENNA, Jan. 29. The oldest Austrian soldier ls Joseph Jabacher, a Tyrolean farmer. He recently celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday in a trench near Rovento. When Italy entered the war he offered himself as a volunteer. He declared that he had fought against the Italians In 1S59 and 1S66 and could do so again. He was rejected on account of his age and returned to his village in the Puster valley val-ley heartbroken. In July, when a new call for troops was Issued, he traveled to Innsbruck attain to present himself for enrollment. He Insisted that he should be talcen- and. as the physicians found him perfectly healthy and as vigorous as a man of 50 years, he was finally accepted and attached to one of the militia companies. compa-nies. For six months he has been In the trenches continually and has never been sick for a moment. |