The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . et supporting troops through the cur-tain of fire. When the general could not see how the defensewas going, a colonel from his staff climbed to a point of vantageand from there called through a megaphone to his waitingchief during a lull in the storm of fire: They are holdingmarvelously. Nor did they cease to hold. At 3 oclockthe Austrians fell back. The position of the Austrians had become critical. realized the weight of the Italian counter-o
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . et supporting troops through the cur-tain of fire. When the general could not see how the defensewas going, a colonel from his staff climbed to a point of vantageand from there called through a megaphone to his waitingchief during a lull in the storm of fire: They are holdingmarvelously. Nor did they cease to hold. At 3 oclockthe Austrians fell back. The position of the Austrians had become critical. realized the weight of the Italian counter-offensive, 60 IN THE ALPS AND ON THE ADRIATIC and staked everything on an attempt to drive a wedge be-tween the Lemerle-Magnabosehi line and positions east ofthe Val Canaglia. On a narrow front, well under twomiles, they sent in an attacking force of over twenty bat-talions. On June 15 their command issued an order thatLemerle would fall in two days, and that afterward onlythree mountains lay between them and Milan. But in thefour days fighting they did not gain anything. An attackon June 18 was their last effort. All along the line from. AN AUSTRIAN FIELD BAKERY the Adige to the Brenta the Italians tested the ground foran advance, now that the Austrian offensive was over. Threeout of four reserve divisions, originally concentrated on theTrentino, had either been brought into the front line, orsent in haste to Galieia. The smashing blows dealt by theRussians on the Eastern Front had shown that the AustrianTrentino attack was based on a great miscalculation. In-stead of being able to bring more troops against Italy theAustrian command had now to study the problem of re- 61 IN THE EAST, NEAR EAST, AND SOUTH moving a part of those that were already there. For aweek they opposed a firm resistance to the Italian pressure,but their position was becoming untenable. Alpini wererecapturing high peaks on the right, and on the left GelSanto was being seriously threatened. The Austrian retr
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