. Review of reviews and world's work. Sen icer, . .ARIAN GUNNERS ON AN ALPINE PEAK. IN THE FIGHTING AGAINST THE ITALIANS. (Tbf^ U*u. ON THF. l-KOW . *)tymtn, tarring m infanirr. aft I-Kaicl m ifnrbrt tniilt of rock frtamrnli—an iiilcrrillngtAMlrMt lo IM mud atMl chalk com|»o«tiion o( ih« terrain on othrr war frnni*) 286 THE AMERICAS REIIElf OF RElIElfS Munfalconc up the Doberdo Plateau, hadtaken San Michele, they were some twentymiles from Trieste, which lay almost duesouth from them. The main railroad androad lines followed the sea, at the foot of theCarso Plateau. When the
. Review of reviews and world's work. Sen icer, . .ARIAN GUNNERS ON AN ALPINE PEAK. IN THE FIGHTING AGAINST THE ITALIANS. (Tbf^ U*u. ON THF. l-KOW . *)tymtn, tarring m infanirr. aft I-Kaicl m ifnrbrt tniilt of rock frtamrnli—an iiilcrrillngtAMlrMt lo IM mud atMl chalk com|»o«tiion o( ih« terrain on othrr war frnni*) 286 THE AMERICAS REIIElf OF RElIElfS Munfalconc up the Doberdo Plateau, hadtaken San Michele, they were some twentymiles from Trieste, which lay almost duesouth from them. The main railroad androad lines followed the sea, at the foot of theCarso Plateau. When the Italian center t(X)kGorizia, it was some thirty-odd miles fromTrieste by rail and road, which go up theWippach WlUey and then turn Jirst southand then east, cross the Carso Plateau, andfall steeply down into Trieste. As theItalians were able to advance by this linethey would interpose between Trieste andthe rest of Austria. A successful advancesouth of perhaps thirty miles, parallel to thecoast but twenty miles inland, would enablethem to cut the Trieste-Vienna railroad andTrieste would be cut oft and compelled tounderg
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