The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . y, S Lorenzo flXl^r J^ c /i„/, i. \Manzano M Sabc n»J^-^ ^ Oib ^y w V- - /—Podtora ^^v M Go az ^ihr-^ ^, i 1 SagradgJJOi^ ., S« cM5\, ^ V Campolongol/ r\\ C Naovo -i lij- ^ S M6rt no !a denschaf t o ^^V^f. THE CARSO PLATEAU AND THE GULP OF TRIESTE On the Carso occurred a long struggle for opening the road to Trieste. Roughly the Carso Includes the territory between Doberdo and Comen, and between Duino and the mountains south of Gorizia tically the wh
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . y, S Lorenzo flXl^r J^ c /i„/, i. \Manzano M Sabc n»J^-^ ^ Oib ^y w V- - /—Podtora ^^v M Go az ^ihr-^ ^, i 1 SagradgJJOi^ ., S« cM5\, ^ V Campolongol/ r\\ C Naovo -i lij- ^ S M6rt no !a denschaf t o ^^V^f. THE CARSO PLATEAU AND THE GULP OF TRIESTE On the Carso occurred a long struggle for opening the road to Trieste. Roughly the Carso Includes the territory between Doberdo and Comen, and between Duino and the mountains south of Gorizia tically the whole of the dominating position of Hill 85 andtook 3,600 prisoners. This territory had all been underbombardment since July 14. It was now subjected to aceaseless hail of shells of every caliber for nine hours. Nosuch awe-inspiring cascade of fire had ever before beenwitnessed on the Italian front. Houses in the Gorizia plain,when not hit, were often shattered or made to collapse by 67 IN THE BAST, NEAR EAST, AND SOUTH tte mere force of seismic waves. Mouths of caverns onthe Carso, into which thousands of Austrian troops hadhurried crouching- for refuge, were dammed and choked bytons of debris and so converted into living tombs. When the order was given for the Italian infantry to quitthe trenches where they had passed many months pent-up,the
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