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Title: Scenes from Italy's war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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they had safely closed behindthe back of their Isonzo operations, was forced atan ill-guarded point. The Austrian advance on to theAsiago plateau and down the Astico valley gave Italysome bad weeks, for it bade fair to compel an evacuationof Friuli and Venetia by the great army of the Isonzo,whose rear was now threatened. But Cadorna used tothe full his one great advantage of the inner line ofcommunications, slinging troops across from the Isonzoto the Trentino in the Fiat lorries. On May 22nd ourfriends of the 4th Sanita section went off to the Trentinoat twelve hours notice. The greatest danger at the end of May was in theAstico valley, where the enemy had taken the rocksummits of Pria Fora and Cimone, and were pouringthrough the town of Arsiero down the valley itself, actu-ally on the level of the great plain. The Italians, whohad been driven back far behind their prepared lines,had then no trenches in that region nor fastnesseshollowed out in the rocks, but met the invader hand to
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78 THE TRENTINO DANGER, MAY 1916. 79 hand, and thrust him back by desperate fighting overthe precipices of Pria Fora. In the valley below, one ofthe farthest points reached by the enemy was Fogaz-zaros country villa, built in a good modern style amidbeautiful woods and meadows below Arsiero. It is nowa mass of ruins in a world of war.* These actions savedItaly in the early days of June 1916. In the latter half of June the recovery of further groundon the Asiago plateau, coinciding with the announce-ment of the amazing Russian victories marked by thecapture or desertion of two or three hundred thousandAustrians, removed the last element of danger in theTrentino. It was a happy period for all Italians. In-tense relief from national peril, joy that they had savedthemselves by their own exertions and by political unityand calmness at the bad moment, were combined withlegitimate pride that the drawing off of the Austrianartillery and forces to the Trentino had rendered theRussian victories

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