The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . Seven Weeks in Italy The Response of the American Red Cross to the Emergency By Paul U. Kellogg -r EDITOR THE SURVEY Rome, December 22, IQIJ. ON THE HILLS bordering Lake Garda to thesouth lies an old battleground where sixty yearsago the French and Piedmontese defeated theAustrians. For a month past, not only Frenchand Italian, but British troops have been streaming throughthis region. They have been reinforcing the new front on theline of the Piave, where the Italian armies checked and heldthe invading Austrians of 1917, who came down late inOctober drivin

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The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . Seven Weeks in Italy The Response of the American Red Cross to the Emergency By Paul U. Kellogg -r EDITOR THE SURVEY Rome, December 22, IQIJ. ON THE HILLS bordering Lake Garda to thesouth lies an old battleground where sixty yearsago the French and Piedmontese defeated theAustrians. For a month past, not only Frenchand Italian, but British troops have been streaming throughthis region. They have been reinforcing the new front on theline of the Piave, where the Italian armies checked and heldthe invading Austrians of 1917, who came down late inOctober driving before them half a million refugees fromFriuli and the Veneto. This reawakening of old echoes of gunfire in the long strug-gle for Italian liberation had its response in the declarationof war by the Congress of the United States. But there isanother span of circumstance in which America played a moreimmediate part, from Padua and Venice to the Sicilies, in theprompt despatch of trained men, supplies and rolling stockfrom the Paris

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