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DESCRIPTION OF
FIGHTS ABOVE
HEADQUARTERS OK THE ITAL
IAN ARMY, June 20. — (Correspond
ence of the Associated Pres.) — A da
rn e!lo, which Virgil crowned “Kin;; u{
the Italian Alps," Is the most novated
spot In the world where war has ever
been waged.
Through the courtesy of the Italian
general staff, which Is desirous that
the world outside should know the
hardships of the unprecedented cam
paign. the correspondent of the Asso
ciated Press was the first civilian al
lowed to witness the fighting on this
colossal mountain, which is 11,50** feet
high and covered with eternal snows.
The correspondent snw the moun
tain swarming with thousan lu of
white clad Alpine soldiers singing,
alert, eager, crossing glaciers, chal
lenging avalanches, charging the ene
my with fixeu bayonets — all above
the clouds.
There the correspondent witnessed
the action of heavy artillery, a bat
tery of which fired from the highest
point in the world where artillery
had ever been placed or from which
it had even been fired. It seemed al
most a miracle that such big guns
could have been transported in two
months of hard labor from a distance
of fifteen miles in one of the valleys
below. Over two hundred men had
been required for the dragging of a
single one of the pieces, and at one
stage of the work an avalanche had
swooped down from the mountain
sides and swallowed up the cannon
and devoured forty of the men.
The professional mountain climber
never attemnled in reach the ton of
Adamello, but. in summer the view of
the surrounding Alps with Mont Rhine,
the Jungfrau and Monte Rosa in the
distance is considered the best in Eu
rope. Winter and summer, the fight
ing there is under conditions that pre
vail only in the Arctic regions. There
Austrians and Italians meet in silent
death grip, their deaths and their
deeds all but unrecorded save in dry
army annals, given but a brief line
in the terse bulletins of General Cad
dorna.
While the Austrian and Italian can
non rumbled lazily, exchanging rude
courtesies, or seeking to dislodge
avalanches to better destroy and ham
per the enemy, awakening echoes that
leaped from dozens of miles up and
down the abrupt peaks, the genial
Italian colonel -accompanying the cor
respondent remarked that In no other
war had such fighting ever been, that
neither the armies of Hannibal nor;
Caesar, nor Napoleon ever dared en
gage in such work, that their armies,
which did go over the mountains not
half the height, were hardly larger
than a regiment of Alpine troops as
today organized, that above all they
did not winter in the mountains nor
deal with heavy artillery, nor drag
up to these fastnesses pound by pound,
plank by plank, piece by piece, their
food, their supplies, and the guns and
ammunition.
These conditions are not limited to
the Adamello region, but repeat them
selves on two-thirds of the Italian
front, or over a line of 27a miles
of mountain chains going from the
Swiss frontier down to the banks of
the Isonzo river, from which can be
seen the “bitter" blue of the Adriatic,
as the poet d’Annunzio described it.
Along this line titanic struggles take
place daily of which the outside world
never hears. It took five days for
the correspondent to slowly climb the
Adamello crest, and In this period
the Italians succeeded in blowing ol’f 1
the top of another mountain called
L'oldi Lana, which suddenly burst into
the air with its defenders, who were
an their side trying to explode a mine
which would blow to pieces the Italian
troops. j
One of the curiouB facts connected i
with this mountain front is that no- i
where have the song birds doserted it. i
“If I were to write home that every 1
night I go to sleep listening to the (
boom of cannon I would be readily <
believed, but if I added that often I !
lie awake for hours listening to the i
liquid thrill of friendly nightingales
in the nearby woods, my statement i
vould be taken for a soldier's yarn,''
laid an artillery officer late one night
vs he and the correspondent stopped |
>n their way across a wooded little i
N THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA. THIRD
DIVISION.
Motice. of Term of Court at Cordova.
Alaska.
Hie President of the United States of
America, to the Residents of the
Third Division of the Territory of
Alaska, and to All Whom It May
Concern, Greeting:
You, and each and all of you, will;
(lease take notice that by an order of |
ho court, duly made and entered, a j
erin of the District Court for the Ter
ltory of Alaska, Third Division, has j
leen called and will be held in Cor-1
lova, Alaska, beginning on the 17th
lay of July, 1916, and will continue as
ong thereafter as the public welfare
aay require.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 13th
lay of June, 1916.
FRED M. BROWN,
District Judge.
District Court Seal)
ktteat: Arthur Lang, Clerk.
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vslle.v to'listen to a nightingale’s song.
"That Bong Is not an exception,'* he
explained. ‘‘1 have crossed (his valley
about this time of night for weeks on
my way to my quarters, and that bird
Is always singing, no matter how vio
lent the artillery noise.”
In the upper mountain districts the
corresjiondent noted that the skylarks
held to their usual haunts with the
same tenacity as the nightingales in
the lower country, flying in the air
until they went out of sight above
the snowy peaks, apparently undis
turbed by the whizzing of the shells
that went through the air hundreds of
feet above the soldiers.
Thla explanation was advanced by
an officer of file All ini, who had been
many years In the mountains: “These
birds are used to the noises peculiar
to the mountains, such as caused by
the cracking of avalanches, the roll
ing of boulders from the peaks into
the valleys, and as artillery fire here
makes a noise not so very different
from these others, the birds are not
frightened away.”
From here the correspondent re
turned by devious footpaths, 0:1 ihe
backs of other soldiers of the trsrrve,
on sure footed little donkeys, on rail
way air lines that bridge the valleys
to the lower country where the fight
ing fs better known, along •ho Ivrr.zo
river, where hills are hardly i tore
than a thousand feet in heigh', where
they drop to five hundred, th-oo hua
dred feet, before the line slides »ft
into the Adriatic.
Thut the new effort of the Italians
to advance will be unhandicapped by
the difficulties of a year ago, when
not only men but small arms and can
non were lacking, may be appreciated
by the fact that now the army is
equipped with numerous heavy can
non. new artillery, manufactured in
Italy.
The correspondent saw' these guns
at work towards Monte Kuk and
Monte Sun Michele, the hitherto im
pregnable hills held by the Austrians,
and tig.iin and again taken by tho !tn!■!
lai soldiers at tremendous sacrifices,
aiiiv to lie compelled to surrender each'
time the crests of the hills because
,rf the lack of heavy artillery to si
ence the heavy Austrian cannon.
1W WIRELESS’ III TIL
EMPRESS TOMORROW j
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“Via Wireless," a play of intense
interest and one which has made a
wondorful hit wherever it has been
shown, will be given at the Empress
Theatre tomorrow night.
The play deals with Marsh, a
draughtsman in the gun factory of
Johu Durant, who is swindled by Ed
ward Pinkey, Durant's general man
ager, out of the huge royalty to be
paid should a gun of Marsh's inven
tion prove a success. Pinkey loves
Frances, Durant’s daughter, but is
vutrivalled by Lieut. Somers, U. S. N.
Somers also has invented a gun
which he gives to be cast to the Du
rant Iron Works, and which, if suc
ressful, will do Pinkey out of his ex
pected graft on the Marsh invention.
1‘inkey takes good care that the Som
ers gun is “killed" in making. He then
misrepresents Somers to Frances and
tier father, and though Frances loves
the lieutenant, she feels she must give
dim up. Accompanied by her mother
and Pinkey, she goes in the Durant
yacht for a cruise. The boat hits a
mine, and in the rush to leave her, j
Frances is tripped in the wireless
room. She sends out the S. O. S. sig
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1 nal tai g t her by Lieut. Somers. The
lieutenant, aboard a U. S. cruiser, ar
rives at the side of the doomed ship
Just in time to make a sensational
rescue.
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TWICE TRIES SUICIDE
UNDER TRAIN WHEELS.
TACOMA, June 28. — Twice pre
vented from ending his life beneath
the wheels of trains at Nlsqually sta
tion, Sam Ilesey, of Seattle, is held
in the county jail awaiting physical
and mental examination. Me is un
able to talk coherently and Is believed
by deputy sheriffs to be suffering
from partial paralysis.
Mesey was only able to mumble
something about .not having eaten for
several days, and could give no reason
for trying to end his life. Sheriff
Longmirc is trying to locate his wife
and children, who are said to live In
Seattle.
HOSTILITY OF TURKS
DRIVES AMERICANS OUT.
NEW YORK. June 29. — Sixteen
Americans who said they had left
Constantinople owing to a scarcity of
food supplies, and because the native
population had evinced strong anti
pathy for all English-speaking per
sons, arrived here today. Among
lh«in were Professor Henry H. Dew
ing. Charles L. Lewis and George II.
Huntington, connected with Robert
College, an American institution in
Turkey.
The Oscar II stopped at Kirkwall,
where the British authorities removed
130 sacks of mail, 40 of which were
restored to the ship when it was
found that they contained correspond
ence addressed to Danish officials "t
Washington and the West In lies an 1
to persons on Danish warships at the
West Indies.
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Conditions generally on the creeks
about Fairbanks are reported to be
good.
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