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HOSPITALITY UNDER FIRE.
The unruffled acceptance of peril as DOVRENANCE OF ENGLAND, '']_____ their daily portion by the countryfolk live
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It is therefore obvious that France has made greater sacrifices than any of the belligerents, unless perhaps it be Belgium and Serbia. Practicaily all Frenchmen of military age are fighting and all Frenchmen of every age are engaged in some kind of national service. And not the men alone. The women of France have been mobilised also und, as he Times military correspondent points out, the life of the country is maintained only, in face of the depletion of its man hood, by the devotion of the female popu- lation. The agriculture of France has been carried only the women, the old men, and the children; and if the meti enlous intensive cultivation: goes on up to the very battle-zone itself it is because of the willing hearts and untiring bands of these wives and widows and maidens, these indefatigable greybeards and per tinacious schoolboys
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HILLS OF DEATH.
THE WORST BATTLEFIELD OF
EUROPE.
The special correspondent of the Morning Puston the Italian front writes in the latter part of April :-
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ARTILLERY BATTERY 2.---The undermentioned will parade at ⠀⠀ Headquarters at 1 p.m. on Satur- day and inst., for escort duty :- No 779 Sgt. Frith; No. 1132 Gnr. Heath: No. 1007 Gar. Beck; No. 1210 Bomr. Bassford, No 1691. Gnr. Gerrard.
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The hills of the Carso might well he called the Hills of Death. In no que of the theatres of the European war have I seen such a macabre and tragic battle front as this of the Carso The Carso is constituted by a ridge of hills which, following the course of the River Isonzo, Even in times of peace these were n extend from the Adriatic to Gorizia. inhabited on the rocky lights of the A General wishing to show his appre seen its slopes are void of fields and Cars no tree or blade of grass is to be ciation of her pluck and goodness, ar villages au roads. Fach one of these ranged to Inch at her humble estaminet, hills is nothing but a-chaotic mass of she stipulating that she should have two rocks and atorice, flat and open, forcibly days no to do credit to the honour reminding one of the terror of a Dantes done here bolgin. These rocks of the Carso The notice was given her, but when the have been the scene of the most tragic General stepped out of his car she came devotion necomplished by the Italian They would therefore now be between out of her boat and assailed his A.D.C. Army, for they command the course of forty-six und fifty years of age, and the in amoured terms for having brought the liver Isonzo, and are a terrible him there a natural barrier opposed to the Italian be taken away from rivil life shows how
Had ho rot received the letter which advance on Triesto and Gorizin. This crushing has been the burden of she and at the day before adjuring barrier extends over a frent of some France's manliond, Bule by side with him on no account to bring M. le Général thirty kilometres and had been prepared the class of 1888 the class of 1917 may be to such a spot of danger, seeing that the by the Austrians to stand the impact of mobilised, so that the draft is made at Boches had been shelling it for hours yes even the most desperate and courageous both ends of the séale. Mea who interday
attack. During Italy's nine months of normal times are beyond the military She continued to rate him with of dynamite, carved several lines of neutrality the Austrians had. by means age, and youths who have scarcely a diminished vigour, till the General forintable trenches in the live rock of prouched it, may have to be drawn into gested ally that as he was there, and the Carso; and had built regular redoubts the fighting line, or, at any rate, into the the risk bad been taken, he might as well of armed ceasent and steel, defended by line of disciplined troops which is held have what we going
an enormous quantity of quickfirers placed in reserve for military exigencies In But there was nothing going, she as on the dominating positions of these fact, us 3. Humbert points out, Franceserted hotly; how should there be, seeing tragic heights Higher up they bad is rapidly approaching the point at which that such a piece of stupidity as bring accumulated their heaviest guns, in cer all Frenchmen, whatever their age, willing him could not possibly be conceived?tain valleys full of natural granite grote become mobilised for the national service.
In the end, however, she agreed that toes. something of no account might be forth- WALL OF ORANITE AND STEEL, coming it she were given twenty minutes, The heroic Italian attack against this and quickly set before the G.O.. as tasty wall of granite and steel will be justly Poor old soul, so careful for the safety fantry, which, last summer, attacked the a lunch as he had ever maten. ⠀⠀ appreciated by history. The Italian ini of the British commander, so indifferent Carso, had to advance entirely in the open to her own, the Boches have driven her until they were under the very nuzzle away now. Her little home is in ruing of the enemy's guns. From their posi but she a short mile further off, is still tions the enemy could dominate for meny supplying the needs of needful men, and miles the low-lving plain of the Isonzo, giving of her skill and her bounty to all as far as the old Italian frontier. Their who come to her. The big shells go by
guns could foil any attempt to cross the
EQUIPMENT BOARD. overhead, but she pays them no atten- Isonzo, which, at the foot of the Carso, tion their business is elsewhere, and she tacking forces, after having gained the Tuesday, June 6th. No. 12-Section. is about a hundred yards wide. The at Monday, June 5th, No. 11 Section will not spare them a the ght so long as first slopes of the Carso under the mur Wednesday, June 7th No. 13 Section. they do not interfere with her s
dorous Austrian fire, were completely at Thursday, June 8th-No. If Section, the enemy's mercy, being unable to build Friday, June 9th.--No. 8 Section. many kind of trench or shelter in the rocký j France will go on to the end even if ground. Not even under these conditions, as General de Castelnou said to The however, were the Austrians able to Times, the French race bus to die on the paralyse the vigorous Italian offensive battlefield But the British Empire, with The Italian soldiers, though subjected its much larger European population for mouths at a time to the fire of the dominating positions of the enemy, suc- should now be in a position to give more ceeded in holding their own, building substantial aid. If we had the four mil rudimentary trenches with the bodies of under Staff Inspector Clarke on Tues lions of soldiers for which parliamentary their dead Often during the bayonet day and Thursday, June 6th and Stb. sanction has been obtained, or anything charge groups of soldiers would he norTE MARCI like that number, at least a good half of ordered up carrying sandbags in order The Route March ordered for Friday, the western front should be held by Eng to build up on the rock a rough and fish and Belgian troops. And if the war narrow parapet. to afford some cover
- Juno 2nd, is cancelled. A
A UNIFORM)": is to last into 1917 it will be imperativ against the enemy's fire. Notwithstand During wet weather, patrolmen are per upon us to be in a position to discharging all this, they always continued to
mitted to wear their blue winter that, obligation. For if France were of advance, because it was necessary to pusht
trousers with white jackets. break down from sheer physical inability back the enemy at any cost over the
FAC JENKIN to maintain her effort on its prescut stall highest crest of the Carso, to prevent
D.S.P. (R). the Allied cause would be lost beyond re-him from completely dominating the demption. Whatever may happen else plain of the Isonzo. At the present time where it is on the Western front that the the Italian line on the Isonzo stretches ultimate decision will be reached, so that almost everywhere beyond the southern hand, the Italian batteri all the Allies are equally interested in fringe of these hills. The Austrians have ing the inferiority of the positions, are enabling France to succeed in the tusz been obliged to retire into the valleys of undoubtedly superior, te which she has taken upon herself for the the Carso, so that their strategic superi enemy. Towards Gorizia I have seen the common beneft in that quarter. It is ority is now limited to the position of effect of some shots fred by Italian gun-- not right that sixty millions of Britons
their batteries
ners which convinced me that the Italian should racaps so lightly from the ravages
artillery has a precision of aim and range finding which allows to accom of a war which is felt by France in every The Austrians themselves have recog-plish the most daring of fonts All the fibre of her being nized the almost superhuman courage Austrian prisoners agree in attesting to:
We have done our share, and it in a displayed by the Italians in this advance, that matter Russia, and Serbis, and Bel the sacrifice unless he pushes forward to CENTRE OF THE STRUGGLE, gium also tell us that we have not suffer the bloodstained rocks of the Carso. I Summing up what I have said above, But the strain has been terrible, and ited and laboured under this war as was there one wonderful sunny, summer the Carso is the centre of a furious and is not surprising that Frenchmen are be- they have we cannot deny the imputation. like morning a few days back, I was bloody struggle between two armies, each ginning to ask themselves whether they More men will be needed to hold back the accompanied on my visit by one of the endeavouring to wear down the other. are got bearing an undue burden. They final desperate efforts of Germany in the youngest labian genials, whose conduct of all the different sectors of the Euro- feel that their Allies might do something | west; and as Russia cannot help tera
the field bas deserved the gold medal pran front, it is perhaps the most not to lighten the lord. They look at the map, and Francs must be approaching her for valour the highest honour granted able for herceness of lighting and human and they are that now, after twenty linit, it is obvious that the reinforce by the King to the heroes of the way sacrifice. Often indeed, episodes months of war, that long line from the mente in the main must come from the He was pomting out to me the ground might be considered just partial,
over which the Italian troops had last the importance of a great battle. Alps to the sea, which protects Britain as British Islands and the Dominions. much as France, is still in the main
most important position to the north not allow the Italian Army on the greater month victoriously advanded, conquering conditions of this mountain warfare do uarded by French bayonets. Most of us,
A little help might also be expected of Monfalcone. Behind the Italian wire part of this front to pursue an action I imagine, expected that long before from another quarter. We are all grate entanglements one could still see piles against the Austrian line of defences. this something like half of it would have ful to Italy for coming into the Allianes of dead bodies, left behind by a fun Still; on the Carso, as around Gorizia. been transferred to British custody, but and appreciative of the skill and couraggarian regiment which, with almost super- they are forcing the Austrians to offer even now we are holding less than a quar with which the campaign on the Austrian human obstinacy, had attempted to re a strong and continuous resistance, which ter of that sinuous causeway of trenches. frontier has been conducted The Italians take the position. These Hungariaus are daily weakens their military organism... Frenchmen may find it difficult to have fought with undoubted spirit and the most loyal troops of the Austro-Hun- In fact, while at the beginning of the war understand why this should be the case vigour in that bitter struggle of the garian Empire. They fight doggedly and the enemy defended the Cargo with one nor indeed can we easily explain it our mountains and have effected a very use devotedly their officers maintain a very army corps, they have been obliged at selves. The population of France at the ful diversion. But the population of high military tradition. But even the present to concentrate three, army corps outbreak of the war was about forty mil-Italy is within about que-sixth of that of courage of these Hungarian troops which on the line from Monfalcone to San lions, that of the United Kingdom and France, and if the kingdom had organ= | have been concentrated on the Carso Michele, which are made up of the choi- the self-governing Dominions well over ised her manhood for military purposes could not break the fierce resistance of rest and best troops still left in Austria sixty millions, to say nothing of our Asin in the same way as the Republic there the Italian infantry From the begin Hungary. It is probable that the victory tic and African dependencies. It is true ought to be between three and four milning of the war until today it has never of one or other of the two armies will that we have considerable forces in India, lion Italian troops under arms. Even if happened that the enemy has succeeded be decided on the plains of Gorizia. The Mesopotamia Egypt, and a large body, the number is less than half that total in wresting from the Italians any im Austrians have concentrated about a gent at that place is understood to be less able, for, owing to the nature of the army whose achievement sometimes, and men is, and for some months has been, in of troops at Salonika, though our contin there must be a considerable surplus avail portant position previously conquered by million men on the front sector of them. The main characteristic of this Gorizia and on the Carso. This ass of numerous than the French Moreover, country, the operations in the Trentino wrongly has been considered slow or too close, almost immediate, contact with the Great Britain is swarming with men in cannot employ a very numerous army careful is that of never having given up Italians, who by overcoming the invincible. khaki - How many there are I do not There does not seem any reason why know, and the Government does not tell five or six hundred thousand Italian inch of the ground conquered on a difficulties of a natural and strategic us, but we have only to use the ordinary troups could not be despatched beyond the tres enemy to the extreme Banks of his en- front which extends for ever 600 kilomerature, have succeeded in mailing the faculties of observation to be well aware Alps to co-operate with the French in the UENCHES BUILT OF DEAD BODIES.Trenched camp next offensive those the hour will have that there are many more soldiers in these siege of the Central Empires on the west Many Italian army corps have been
sounded for islands than can possibly be required to An Italian reinforcement of this kind living for months on the Carso under troops will write the history of one of guard against the somewhat improbable would ronder the success of a German terrible conditions. It made me shudder, It may be that the European War. It the greatest battles of the European War. contingency of invasion. offensive more than ever improbable and few days ago, to see many soldiers, may be that the actual territorial ad-
Many of these troops are still under would be much needed relief to the exhausted by fatigue, asleep leaning training, but many others have been am French For reasons of its own the Ita against the trench parapet mangled re vantages gained in bodied for a year or more and must be by lian Government has hitherto preferred mains, unspeakably horrible out of those who do not know the character of seem small and nach s battle will this time quits as it for active service as not to come into actual elision with Ger which it had been built; sticking out in the ground over which the struggle will they are ever likely to be. Why a large many but, be the reasons what they may, many places. And night after night the he waged. None the less, it is certain proportion of them are not now in the French can scarcely be expected to struggle waxes furiously on the Carso that the positions reciprocally occupied France one does not in the least under regard them with respect any more than Night after night on the bloodstained by the contending armies to-day is such stand There may or may not be good they can quite understand why the task rocks the artillery pound at each other that on the day of the Anal struggle it reasons for keeping so many soldiers still of countering the German terapt to accompanied by the throwing of quid will determine the victory or the defear hanging about our garrison towns and break through to the west, should still be Bre bombs, which the Austrians have of one of the adversaries. The Italians training camps; but it is intelligible that left so largely to themselves Italy may lately begun to use on the Italian front are waiting impatiently for this hob the French should be growing a little im or may not do something effectual But The effect of the shelle falling on this They want to gather the fruit of the patient of the situation and should be in for Great Britain there is no choice rocky ground is terrible Each shell as it quiring when para English will be sent France has done her share in a manner barsts on the rocks sentters them into a terrible sacrifices which Europe and even to the front in order to free some of their beyond all praise, and the time is ap thousand splinters, which are as deadly victory, and from the rocks of the Car
Taly herself ignores They are sure of own warred veterans and render the preaching when we must do our share a bullets. This is one of the reasons why they look, each evening at sunset, towards incessant call for drafts from their civil also in the train campaign even more the Ttalian losses are so heavy, even when Trieste so near-confident that soon the population less urgent
effectively than has been the case up to the there is no actual offensive. On the other dawn of het triumphant liberation will
It is no reflection upon any of the other armies in the field to say that France lias borne the brunt of the fighting. The Allied canse has been sustained, and will in the end prevail, through the Army of France as much as the Navy of front Britain. It is against the French Army that the fullest strength of Germany has been hurled again and again. And again and again the legions of the Kaise have failed before the quenchless endur! ance and invincible courage of the French infantry and the skill of the French artil lery France, with her chief manufactur❘ ing district in the hands of the eneiny has so organised her industry that she has been able to repair all the deficiencies with which she entered upon the war, and has enabled the armed masses aligned upon her eastern frontier to be amply supplied with manitions and weapons of every kind. With all this sho has con- trived, to keep her industries in existence and to co-operate with Great Britain in maintaining the credit of the Alliance
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