Scenes from Italy's war . Map XL—Stages of En(The dates printed on the map refer to 1917. The dotted line mark. Advance after Caporetto. Furthest Austrian advance across ihe Piave in the battle of June 1918.) ..?.^jj».*^ .,, .^ .LL,.,.^JL, :?? .UAl^ili^i ,.|,|. I |||||||M|.|M OUR EXPERIENCES ON THE RETREAT. 179 last of the wounded off the Bainsizza in the difficult andorderly retreat which the army effected out of that dan-gerous salient. On the evening of October 27th theyfinally left behind our old scenes of Plava and Quisca,after assisting our friend Professor Baldo Rossi
Scenes from Italy's war . Map XL—Stages of En(The dates printed on the map refer to 1917. The dotted line mark. Advance after Caporetto. Furthest Austrian advance across ihe Piave in the battle of June 1918.) ..?.^jj».*^ .,, .^ .LL,.,.^JL, :?? .UAl^ili^i ,.|,|. I |||||||M|.|M OUR EXPERIENCES ON THE RETREAT. 179 last of the wounded off the Bainsizza in the difficult andorderly retreat which the army effected out of that dan-gerous salient. On the evening of October 27th theyfinally left behind our old scenes of Plava and Quisca,after assisting our friend Professor Baldo Rossi of theCitta di Milano surgery to get away not only his patients,but his invaluable material.* All this had been done before I arrived back fromEnglish leave on the morning of October 27th. Thatnight the last of our cars, under Philip Bakers com-mand, left Gorizia when the Italians evacuated thescenes of so much glory. As we left the house in thechestnut grove, where we had been such a happy familyfor more than a year past, with the silent scurry ofretreat in all the familiar lanes around, I certain
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