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THE FIGHT UPHILL.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF ITALY'S
WAR
{EY HAMILTON BYSE)
I have always been inclined to reply roughly to people whom I have heard as ing, by do not the italians get on more quickly
SIR ERIC GEDDES CAREER,
| Vico-Admiral, hitherto Major-General, Sir Eric Geddes is only 41 years of age bus a list of the activities he has orbwded into the last 24 years reads like the synopsis of à cingar, film,
SUFFERED 3 YEARS WITH ECZEMA
|CUTLER PALMER & CO'S
UTLER PALM
Bora in India of a Scots farmly, intended for the Army, going from Mer chiston Castle School to the Uxford Mili
On Hand. Very Inflamed. Got College and passing the preliminary
tary
These propte look at a way and measure examination. He was then 17, and, find- of distances, and waet, tauy find that in ing himself more and more attracted Big push, urter an action severely con-towards engineering, he anddenly gave up tested, only a small amount of territory all thought of the Army, left by college, has been taken, they say in their querur and went out to America, where for four armchair-érite tone? Well, it years he was engaged in lumber and rail- they took 30 much, why couldn't they snke way work on the Baltimore and Chic Railway after a preliminary period in Mr. Carnegie's steelworks at Homestead. In India in 1807 he worked in the forests, building and managing a light railway through the jungle, but after avu years he resigned, his position as traffic manager on the Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway
Lep the people get a map which dis tinguishes clearly between dat ground and meatams and they may begin to understand why. The nest step towards realising what the war is like on the italian front is to get it truly into our heads that everywhere the Italiang are fighting uphill.
and returned to England. Entering the North-Eastern Railway, he worked his way rapidly up to the position of dopaty general manager.
Then came the war, and his help was sought in the organisation of the muni- tions supply. With Mr. Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions, Mr. Geddes was inde Deputy Director General, and from
**An uphill tight. The phrase tus passed into a proverb with us. We use it when we want to convey the idea of gundult task. no task can be conceived more autucult cunu actually fighting up but with Maxing puuping bullets down at you, with fuelsen bidden in derpy, 1916, to December of that year be trenenes picking you off is you struggle controlled the supply of rides, small arme, up towards choul, with artilery posted tuitions, optical instruments, transport on sountar-tops whence you are plainly vehicles, machine guns, and salvage, as as the Royal Ordnance Factories of well "Visible, making terrible burrages to cur
Woolwich, Waltham, and Enfield. Ulti- Lesterday I was on a
a kil
above de mately the whole of his time Lunzo niver called. Monie San Michele was centred on the Artend attention Dix times, the Italians stormed the top of 11, Six Lines Tought their way up the step dupes, maving hats their numbers to the treat, six times gained a lasting en ng sum, only to be outnumbered and forced on again. The seventh time they made good. None but troops of the toughest nerve and persistence could have And then, when they were at the top, what did (ney and that they had gain- That they ed a commanding position dommated the enemy a lines, as he had Not at all. so long cominated theirs! They found that there were higher points ahead of them. Their way was still up ward. Their new task was every bit as dimcult as their old.
Ho
near.
When
*If you have ever climbed mountains, or even scrambled among kuls; you will re- colicet une sunny uues you thought you were coming to the top before you really got there. You saw a peak ahead of you and you said, "Now I am getting
you got there you saw peak farther on, and beyond that another, had another, and another, until you wure weary and discouraged and sore. That is the experience the Italian troops have been undergoing all through the war and are still undergoing to day.. They are inevitably sore and weary. It is immen sely to their credit, that they are not dis- couraged, that their spirit burns with a clear Hamo as ever, Diffeatties only into their uphill got more and word mettle as time goes on.
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Some times the suggestion has been heard in other Allied countries that the Italian losses have been fight, that Italian commanders have played for safety. No suggestion could be more in accurate or more unjust. Italy has never shrunk from sacring History will show that she did her part, and more than her part perhaps, in giving her sons to bleed for liberty and avilisation. The Aus trians have had, and still have, the greas advantage of better natural positions Of this they have made good use. Every of territory by the Italian has been gain of wrritory by the lab. TO WIN THE- tories cheaply on a front like this.
Early in 1916 camo the battle of the Somme, and as ammunition supplies, had now become abundant and the output regular he went out to France to investi- gate the fearfully congested condition of her railways. His appointment to the port of Director-General of Military: Railways at the War Office followed, and he became responsible for the transport of all war material in all the theatres of war and for the organisation of the neces gary staff. Then Sir Douglas Haig naked to have him on his stuff and, unusual as it was, the War Office agreed to the appointment of one of their own otheinis Director-General of Transportation with the rank of major general to fill thus a double office, civil and military.
So Could Not Use It.
HEALED BY CUTICURA
***For over three years I suffered. “Versi
·much from eczema on my right land. It started with little rod pimples and then got very Inflamed and spread and discharged till my hand was covered and I couldn't u 14 at all. I frequently got no sleep at night, and I was not ablo tò đo my own work.
The doctor ordered me to knihe with. Cutleura Soap so I thought I would also, use the Cuticura Olnument. I am now thankful to say I stó' able to do my ow work and my, Imud, fa perfectly healed."! (signed) Mes. J. Clack, 30, Vinyard, Abs lagdon, Berks, Eng., July 28, 1943, Sample Each Free by Post
With 3p/ Sichu Book. (Baap to cleanse ..and introns, so heal.) Address postur For samples; P. Neybory & House, 27, Etu
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UNHAPPY THIN FOLKS,
One of the readers of a popular nealta The reorganisation of the French trans, journal wrote to the editor, asking why port services by rail and by water was she was peevish, blue and discontented, an arduous task, but it was brilliantly and his answer will interest all this carried through. As soon as it was compeople. plete Major General Geddes deputy in "My dear reader," he said, “whsa London, Sir Guy Granet, was transferred you write that you are thin and do not to France and appointed Director-General weigh what you should, you have given of Movements and Railways, with Briga me the real cause of your unhappy feel. dier General Nash for the executive ings. If you only had a reserve of fat charge, and Major-General Geddes then this would give a quieting and reassuring became Inspector-General of Transporta influence to the vital forces, and you tion with the general supervision of the would then be happy, contented and whole of the Army transport.
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Then, too, you realize that the pre- par distribution of fat on the body and umbs makes all the difference between. Devon soil. It has no fault save that beauty and ugliness, and you envy your there is so little of it. How have graves plump friends. As a liberal allowance heen made in the pathetic little come of fat is one of maitre's wise precautions teries one comes across? They have been to enable us to bear some of the trials of hown in the rock, like the tomb which life, yon should do all in your power to belonged to Joseph of Arimathen. And get fit. I know nothing so valuable to how about trenchest Now perhaps you make people fat as a preparation of are beginning to see why advance cannot Sargol, prepared by The Sargol Co. ofZ be rapid. The Italian soldiers cannot England.
From the standpoint of health, fat consolidate posilions captured by digging themselves in as soldiers do elsewhere. is essential, as it has great value a They most blast and drill themselves in reserve force, and saves the other tissues Some of their defences are thrown up from destruction. So, by all means try above ground, like the Russian defences to get
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VICTORIA DISPENSARI, .... are among the most surprising features TIN PHARMACY,
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“Tan EDWARd DispensarT.
of a famous English visitor here that after a walk across San Michele be drank seven glasses of lemonade
Wo have to take care we walk not to stumble over pipes. Some of them carry water. Every drop has to be forced up. te the troops, for the Carso is drier than On all fronts this war has proved that, the South African Karrgo. More than as in cricker some years ago, defence has once pursuit of the enemy has been stop- become strom r than attack. The batsped simply because the pursuers were too nien zu keep up stout-walling tacties parched with thirst to go on. They tell The bowling can only get their wickets by wearing them down. Given a ground so favourable as the Italian front is to the defenders, the attackers' effort must be long and painful. I stood on a hill, itself 3,000 high, and forked eastward Lowards the country, once Italian by sovereignty, always Italian by sympathy, which our Allies have still to corner As far as i could see there were moun-
higher and higher as the ye wil to the far distance, until the hori zon was blocked by giant summits covered even in this month of June with snow.
i sai in an artillery observation post; perched above the freng Italian trenches, and saw the bill of Hermada right in front of me. I had gathered the ide
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obstacle in the way of reaching Triests" could, alter the reent push towards it. What I saw made po got over. understand at one that I had formed very wrong impression. Hermada is part of
chain
of hills which starts from the Adriatic. It is itself a small range, two miles long, called on some maps
The Hermada Mountains. The slopes of it are steep and strongly fortified
To get round it and to take it by storm are equally difficult enterprise. And even if it could be taken at once there is some thing else to consider. There are hills and mountains near by which are higher than the Hermada range From these the Austrians must be driven also before: Trieste cat be taken For what is the use of establishing yourself upon a height of a thousand feet if your enemy can still shell you from higher points in study- ing this Italian problem heights are thui chief factor. See that your map gives them plainly Then you will understand. To get to this observation post I had partly driven and partly walked ¿cross the Carso Much has been heard of this dreary desert region, but I certainly had formed an impression of it far below the actuality of its hideous and stony desolať| tion From a valley you go up and up through woods on to a plateau, atretching as far as you can see each way.
The ground is not fan but wavy, mostly loose stones, but with rock outcropping here and there. Beneath the loose stones there is rock everywhere.
The only earth on this barren wilder- ness is in holes where water drains away. in the wet season, and in the deep Val- Iona, which cuts through the Carso like a wound. The simile comes naturally to mind, for the earth is red, like good (Continued at foot of next column.)
Other of the pipes which trail through the stony litter are for compressed air to move the drills. Imagine doing minors work in the open under haavy shell fire! And yet there are people who talk about progress being "slow"--Daily Nail.
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