Vienna, June 22.
One of the outstanding figures of the early days of the World War, Gen, Edouard Fischer, died here yesterday at the ago of 73. At the Sutbreak of the war, Gen. Fischer was in command of the gendarmerie the province of Bukovina, then the eastern outpost of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and now the northernmost province of Rumania. On his own initiative, he organized the resistance against the invading Russian army. With the hastily combined forces of the gendarmerie, policemen,. foresters and volunteers, he held the 120 kilometre-wide front for five months against the mass attacks of the Russians.
For this distinguished action, Gen. Rischer was awarded "the "Maria Theresia order—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,
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