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THE CARSO

[BY C. VINCE

rain when it falls disappears at once. The limestone is easily worn by water, and so in the passage of the centuries the water had made for itself inay subternihean ways. Under the Carso Anyaterious network of stremus.

There could be no griminer-battlefield."

They.. It's name means the "lanil strines.ey appear and disappear: some form lakes; others go suddenly underground, It might almost have been made in the to How on by their own secret courses,

GERMANY CANNOT STARVE US beginning by the devastation of war. and rever rise again. Just as there is

fight their way to Trieste; the freed

of all Italy

in onler in the slopes of its bills, ao no One can map the system of the thurŝo's streams nor tell whence they come, nor how they go

with the freeilam of the company, in of their countrymen and the restomtión. after the izia: there the and the

recognition of his distinguished hrvices to agriculture,"

In urban areas, he said. 172,000 add tional gardens if some ten poles and pwards had been laid out. altogether there were something like 500,000 more

The Carso extends along the cost of the Adriatic from the river Isonzo for fifty miles to the Quamcre Gulf. It lies along the bottom of the peninsula of Istria, which has Triests at one corner,

mén

The Alps, though they add new and A fascinating story of the conversion awful Inbours to war's suffering on of the soil of England into a vast kitchen make it hutiful, but this platene of

Across, this rough and broken place garden was toll recently to the Gar- the Capso is valy and terrible, without deners' Company by Mr. Prothero, beauty and without comfort for mer. Its the Bera, & fierce wind in which can live; there are earthquakes no palips President of the Bound of Agriculture, is by the hardest of all the nails which and the bot unshaded days

Mr. Prothero gratifying revelation the Allies travel that the Italians must turn tonights that are bitterly cold.

Such is the inhospitable country where was madeniter he had been prosented

the Italians established their lines,

of the Isonzo, capture of

bave main- there they are now pushing steadily on tained them through the winter und towards Trieste. It is a place where

war. new hardships and difficulties. There can dig and death rich me in me must be broken laberintele in trenched in the hard of these wurlens now being cultivated Fiume at the other, and Pula, the great male for it across the rough fields of

rock: there transport must have

way Scrops. Very largeureas in infirmaries naval base of Austria; at its hard. It is and hospitals, and in places where & high, rough platesti. of limestone sharp limestones; and fighting in that complex, uneven country of rocks and soldiers were billeted, had also been fifteen, miles broad. That's the Cars gullies and caves is broken up into little added.

itself, but this same formation of lime fierce struggles where met are cut off Seed merchants have increased their, atone hills is continual far down the with one another. supplies by 350er cent, which, if oven coast of the Adriatic to the mountsios You feel that these me

men, forced to live only two-thirds come up, would mean a of the Balkans. The whole range is now among the hard rocks, must have that considerable increase in the food supply a desert of dry stone, but once upon asume longing for the carth as men shat of the country":"

time it was covered with forests where monotonous sces. They must crave for up in the iron of the battleships on the Even in Bermondsey there were yarden wich would produce my first the Romans, and in later day the the rivers for the shade and the cool good crops: Upwards of 1000 acres of Venetians, eat the word for their galleys. colour of the trees, for the more smell additional land were under small cul-

The Curso is a hombre country without and touch of the earth. They mast tivation in Middlesex. Before the war shape and with scarcely any features. victory. As you stand on the Carso Wardsworth had 100 allotments, and it

push on with a longing for more than now had 2.20), while Southall now hadIt has no order: its slopes run in all at Monfa cone-you see behind you all 500) with a population of 20,000 people. directions; its streams flow mysteriously: that the Italian armis hve letters,

GERMANY CAMNÓT BEARVE US,«

its valleys, lead you nowhere; they are the white villages, the wooded Whether, at the very worst it is only magh grooves or hollows in the plains. In front

Kreen is the broken forbidding possible for Germany to starve us into bills. It is a rugged, hard expanse of

of the red limestone. Country

But submission was the question which Mr broken rocks and stones. As you look beyond you can see the hills of Intrin Prothero set himself to answer when he across its slopes, unreliever by the good rising out of the blue waters. There lies shape and colour of trees, barren, of al

all Tile te the shar

sharp

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spoke after nine million 4lb.life, littered close with".

The nation winter loaves a day. Our harvest this your brown lime tones which make every step

would not find us these loaves. But pain, it seems as if giants with han Our experience is that the greater · with economy

and waste of bread was mers more terrible than the heaviest of the eminence of the doctor the greater now a national crime the Jarvest plus modern gang, had shattered the hills the probability of an acute difference the amount we hoped to have in hand and scattered the fragoletity

ACTOBA

the next September

eptember should be enough to tide

tide land.

of opinion with some other doctor of sover another year-

Among the litter of limestones and equal eminence. Mr. Maclean, of the Germany cannot starve us, even if her stretches of naked rock are innumerable House of Commons Tribunal. submarines triumph completely over the caves and funnel-shaped, gullies called Allied Fleet and not a grain of cereals doliness in these lotinas some moisture comes intothis country Thes can inflict can collect, life is possible, and in the upon us great discomfort. We may have sheltered of them are undergrowtis and a put our livestock on very short com stented pines. But there is no cheerful mons. We shall have to connomias, but and open flow of streame. Sometimea any quite deliberately that the harvest, depressions in the hills hold the rain supposing that the amount that we have and become marshes, or even gloomy calculated to have in hand in Septeinberlakes hit for the most part even the is right, will be enough to pull as water deserts this cheerless place. Tho through

Within the last four or five months we had added a million meres to our area of cereals and potatoes, and the crops of OVERLAND CHINA MAIL" the latter and of oats would be very

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