TRENTINO FIGHTING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1614, 23 September 1916, Page 4

TRENTINO FIGHTING.

Tin* Italians are still holding fast ami making occasional slight gains mi hot li fronts'. In the I’ppe.r Trenlino ilia Austrians appear to lie lot h lo leave the iiuporlani position of AI <.> 111 1 1 Cauriol, the crest. ol which was recently secured I >y the Italians. The enemy is still clinging desperately lo 1 he northern slopes. appa real ly in the hope ol' regaining the crest. 'Hie difficult conditions under which hoih sides are fighling in the Trentino are described in an article by an American journalist, published in ■Laud and Water, and entitled ‘'The Roof of Armageddon." The particular section of the Trenlino front visited by the writer is situated in about the same latitude as Mount Oattriol, but is nearly AU miles to the westward of it. "The Adamello," he writes, "is one of the great glaciers of the world. Amv it has become a hallleliehl, the si ranges! on which man ever fought. I can give no belter idea of its conformation than this homely comparison. Heap up a pan of loose, jagged, splintered rock. with many of the splinters slicking tip in the air, and pour ever it a pail of while glue. The glue will settle, before it hardens, into the spnees between the roek points, and here and there it will Ih>w over the edge of the pile. The splinters of rock are the grey glacial peaks; the glue is the eternal ice; the points of overllow are the passes, like tin* one upon which wi stand now. We rested, shivering under onr double sweaters and our coals, and. when onr hearts grew accustomed to the new altitude, there was more climbing and some perilous scrambling until at last, with little force left in us, we renehed one of I lie very highest guns of Armageddon. Of the gun it is not necessary to speak. How they got it there hy sheer man power, sometimes advancing only a hundred vards a day, sometimes stopped hy a hli/.zard, sometimes following new roads Masted onl hy expert Italian dynamite workers who learned their trade in rhe I’ennsylvanmn mills that will make a great story when the war is done. To draw it within killing range of the Austrians mans 1 a brave man had died in the blizzards."