. The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others. an front it wasnecessary to proceed by stages, and to wait until men andammunition could be made available in sufficient numbers,and communication with a new front could be half the Austrian weight of men and guns wasassembled on the Carso between the Vippacco and the sea,more than half of these Slavs; namely, Czechs, Poles,Ruthenians, Serbo-Croats, and Slovenes. Considering thegreat natural strength of the Julian front and the number 84
. The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others. an front it wasnecessary to proceed by stages, and to wait until men andammunition could be made available in sufficient numbers,and communication with a new front could be half the Austrian weight of men and guns wasassembled on the Carso between the Vippacco and the sea,more than half of these Slavs; namely, Czechs, Poles,Ruthenians, Serbo-Croats, and Slovenes. Considering thegreat natural strength of the Julian front and the number 84 IN THE ALPS AND OX THE ADRIATIC of available rifles and guns, the work which lay before theItalian armies required great qualities of leadership andcourage. Italys previous efforts on the Julian front hadforced the enemy back on the Carso to the sea at the mouthof the Timavo, whence the Austrian line ran approximatelynorth through Fornaza, Versie, Kstanjevica, and DossoFaiti, to hills south of the Vippacco and of Biglia. TheItalian lines were 100 to 400 yards distant, east and north-east of Gorizia. Here the dominating heights of BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTO. AN ITALIAN ARMORED TRAIN WAITING FOR A SIGNAL TO FIRE Gabriele, and Daniele, with their easterly extensions, for-bade for the moment an advance. Cadornas resources had been greatly increased in bothmen and guns. One branch had received remarkable ex-pansion—^his flying corps, which performed valuable , under the particular conditions in which battleswere now fought, were not actualh^ won by airmen, but theywere begun by them, and, without opening success by air-men victorieswere difficult to obtain. These Italian airmenobtained complete photographs of all the Austrian arrange-ments, and during the preliminary Italian bombardment, 85 IN THE EAST, NEAR EAST, AND SOUTH which was violent and lasted for twenty-four hours through-out the day and night of August 19, bombed the enemyscommunications, depots, a
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