. Battlefields of the World War, western and southern fronts; a study in military geography . ends so long as-the whole central portion, from TonalePass to Cortina dAmpezzo, lay in the southward projectingtriangle of the Austrian Trentino. Communication betweenthe Vintschgau-Pustertal corridor and the Noce-Avisio corridor iseasy in the central zone by means of the Brenner railway andcarriage road through the main north-south Adige trench,by local mountain railway and mountain road from Bozento Cles, and by a good road from Bozen southeastward over theRosengarten mountains. To the west a single
. Battlefields of the World War, western and southern fronts; a study in military geography . ends so long as-the whole central portion, from TonalePass to Cortina dAmpezzo, lay in the southward projectingtriangle of the Austrian Trentino. Communication betweenthe Vintschgau-Pustertal corridor and the Noce-Avisio corridor iseasy in the central zone by means of the Brenner railway andcarriage road through the main north-south Adige trench,by local mountain railway and mountain road from Bozento Cles, and by a good road from Bozen southeastward over theRosengarten mountains. To the west a single carriage road, thehighest in the Alps (over 9,000 feet), across the lofty and difficultStelvio Pass connects the Vintschgau with the third corridor, west GIUDICARIA-VAL SUGANA CORRIDOR 5ii of Tonale Pass; and to the east the connection is effected bythree carriage roads leading from the Pustertal southward acrossthe mountain barrier. THE GIUDICARIA-VAL SUGANA CORRIDOR The fourth and southernmost corridor is composed in part ofthe Giudicaria and Val Sugana trenches but is continued north-. Fig. 133—Italian first-line trenches behind the defensive barrier of the Piave.(Italian official photograph.) eastward by the upper Piave valley until it coalesces with thethird corridor near Pieve di Cadore (Fig. 120). We may call thissouthern trench system the Giudicaria-Val Sugana corridor, afterits two best known elements. A good road traverses its entirelength, and both the Val Sugana and the Piave valley sectorscarry railways; but the railways in these two sectors are as yetunconnected, and there is no railway in the western third (Giudi-caria sector). At Trent the corridor divides into two branches,after the manner of the two next north, the northern branch con- 5i2 BATTLEFIELD OF THE TRENTINO
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