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Show hardy 8wi88 80ldier8 Maneuver above clouds Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 10 A B remarkable program of military man- JJ fuvers above tho clouds was brought o an end' today by COO mountaineers, forming part of tho Alpino section of ho Swiss army, who have been engaged en-gaged for some days In a series of movements among tho highest peaks of tho Alps. Tho final maneuver was an attack on an imaginary enemy In occupation of tho Egglshorn, a mountain 10,000 feet high. The battalion of COO hardy Alpinists descended this morning from tho Jung fran Jpch, 11,140 feet high, where they had bivouacked in tho snow throughout through-out tho night. They executed a forced forc-ed march across tho perilous Alctsch glacier during a snowstorm without the loss of a man from fatigue, and fin Ished the feat by storming tho Egglshorn Eg-glshorn heights. |