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THE RUINS OF GORIZIA, AS
SEEN BY WAR CORRESPONDENT
Headquarters of the Ita.ian Army,
Northern Italy, Dec. 20.—(Corres
pondence of The Associated Press.)—
Gorizia is a symbol, “On to Gorizia,”
was the cry of the Duke of Aosta’s
soldiers as they pressed through the
little town of Lucinito a few months
ago, fighting their way down to the
Isonzo river, then across the western
bridge leading to the city, when the
cry changed to “Gorizia at last!”
Then a week ago, this was reversed
when the overwhelming invading
force of Austro-Germans took up this
same cry, “On to Gorizia,” pressing
down from the noith, across the
northern bridge to the city, and end
ing with “Gorizia at last!”
Thus Gorizia has become a symbol
of the huge change which has oc
curred within the lust ten days. It
was one of the furthest points for
ward on the Italian line, the center
of a vast arc of fighting front stretch
ing from Plezzo, far in the north,
down to the Adriatic at Montefal
cone, and it was the most populous
and important city in the great cres- :
cent of territory which the Italian
army has sliced off southwestern
Austria—some six hundred square
miles in all. And so Gorizia was sym
bolic of that entire region which has
twice changed hands in this war, and j
of the furthest advance in the first;
Italian campaigns.
I visited Gorizia just nine days ago
and saw the city on the eve of its |
agony. It was the last visit made j
there by anyone outside the military ■
before the retreat began. The rear j
of the great Austro-German offensive j
already had commenced, though for
the moment it was taken for a spas
modic renewal of the cannc ade
ir*hfic Iippn erniner rm for wPc Ick.
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sound of firing had now increased to
an ominous roar as we passed Pad
gera Hill.
Turning the corner of a shattered
wall, we saw the Isonzo river lying
ahead, and on the further side of Go
rizia rising in terraces with the huge
battlements of the citadel towering
on the right. The river looked about
the width of the Potomac at Washing
ton, but with swifter current from the
mountain feeders. Along the edge of i
the river ran rows of shell-torn walls !
with gaping windows. This whole
water front had been torn to pieces,
and yet many of the demolished rem
nants of the buildings wrere occupied,
and work along the river wharves j
was proceeding.
To the left, as we approached the
river, stood out the palatial castle of
Count Coronini of Vienna, the close
personal friend of Emperor Francis
Joseph up to his death, and the mas
ter of ceremonies of the imperial
household. In this castle had died
King Charles X, and his body still re
poses in the near'-by convent of St.
Caterina. One of the lions of St.
Mark, which had capped the entrance
to the castle, was taken down by the
Austrians before they quit Gorizia
and is now in the city museum. It
was an impressive sight, to see the
fine old castle through a vista of
trees, with its parks and avenues, and
the Italian flag flying above it.
The Isonzo river wras crossed by j
the wooden bridge which Italian en- I
gineers built after all the bridges had j
been blown up. On one side lay the j
Within 24 hours the enemy had
crossed the Isonzo fifteen miles fur
ther north, turned the Italian left
wing, beaten back the Second Army
under General Capello, thieatened to
envelope the Third Army under the
Duke of Aosta, brother of the King
of Italy, and put in execution that
gigantic hammerstroke by which
they hoped to finish Italy and cripple
the whole Entente.
The visit was made by invitation of
the Supreme Command with a staff
editor from headquarters as escort.
As we sped along the road in the big
army auto I noted there were no
troops along the road and bordering
fields as one sees approaching Ver
dun or in the Somme or Flanders.
This absence of troops in the rear
was part of the system adopted, it
was explained. All the re-provision
ing of the army was done at night,
and the roads were left clear by day
most of the time.
Ten miles out we crossed the Ital
ian-Austrian frontier and entered
Austria. The frontier was marked
by an empty river as the mountain
current had run dry. There were
scrub trees along the banks and our
escort noted the strange fact that
bears were quite numerous in these
parts and back to the Julian Alps.
Near the frontier bridge was a party
of soldiers going home for two weeks’
leave; they looked very happy and
were quite unconscious of the escape
they were making from the crash to
occur a few hours later.
At Cormans, an Austrian village on
the road, the signs above the shops
were all in Italian, showing the Ital
ians were right in the claim that all
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this town, too, was a statue of the
Archduke Max*m»''pn whj.trf had just
passed tJuWgh a queer experience.
Some Jfali^h soldiers passing through
tnotow,] had seen the statue, and not
being familiar with Maximilian they
had taken it for the great Genose
navigator, Christopher Columbus.
With true Italian fervor they had
decorated the statue, and there stood
Maximilian with garlands about his
neck placed here by Italian soldiers.
The cannonade began to be heard
for the first time ten miles west of
Gorizia—a low rumble to the north
and east with now and then the muf
fled boom of a great gun. Day by
day the fire was getting heavier, so’
our escort, who knew the ground by
heart; and he added that the enemy
forces had been increased from 120
battalions to 33o battalions.
As we passed through the town of
Lucinico, a far-out suburb of Gorizia,
it was seen to be half destroyed.
Along the main street ran rows of
battered buildings, with walls half
down and shell holes making ugly
gashes. But business was going on,
men were at the cafes, and women
and girls strolled the street uncon
cernedly. Now the automobile turned
up the steep side of Padgera Hill, one
of the outer defenses of Gorizia where
bloody hand-to-hand fighting oc
curred. One could see the old trench
and wire system, now grass grown.
All this hill had been swent bare by
^ell-fire, but nature hod kindly oblit
"-afc<jd the scars and the hillside was
again smiling with its verdure. The
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wreck of of a big pontoon. It was on i
pontoon bridges that the Italians en-!
tered the city, and this wreck was one
of the remnants of that crossing.
The big railroad bridge was lying in
a wreck from artillery fire. Further
on was 'the massive stone bridge with
one of its main arches blown to pieces.
Near these bridges lie a number of
important paper mills, where paper
is made for government notes. All
these mills were masses of ruins with
a few tall chimneys still standing
among the debris.
Gorizia itseir was under the rain of
terrific bombardment, for the full
force of the great offensive was now
only a few hours off. The cannonade
ran the whole range of violence, from
the deep base rumble of monster
guns up to the staccato rattle of ma
chine guns which sounded like strings
of big fire-crackers in a barrel. A
crash of falling walls could be heard
every now and then as one of the big
r’'ssiles “arrived”—the familiar
term used by those who live with this
shell fire.
And yet with the imminent danger,
many people still clung to their homes
and belongings with that same tenac
ity which makes the Vesuvian peas
ants cling to the mountain side when
the volcano is raging and theraten
ing to bury them. But most of these
people on the streets are the poor who
could not get away, and the small
shopkeepers who cannot afford to
abandon their goods. The big stores
are all closed, and the place has the
air of a deserted village, with only a
few stragglers bringing up the rear.
Gorizia had 30,000 people but only
5,000 are left, and these make only a
scattered showing in the wide main
street fringed on either side with its
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shell torn fronts. It was raining hard
and this added to the lugubrious
spactacle.
Of the ravage wrought by the
shells the main facts were cabled on
the day of the visit. But there are
some additional details worth record
ing now that Gorizia stands out so
symbolically. Entering the city we
passed the extensive Jesuit establish
ment where 600 eminarians were lo
cated. One corner was knocked off,
the cornices were hanging and sever
al big holes told where the shells had
found a mark. The main contour of
the street was preserved and the
buildings were intact as a whole, but
every second or third had been hit,
some collapsing entirely, others with
their front wall gone and their upper
rooms with houshold goods showing
from the street. But there was no
vast area of completely leveled debris
as at Verdun or Monastir. The out
lines of a city were still there, but it
was a city siezed by bombardment.
One modest dwelling stood out as
we hurried along, not by its ruin but
by its cheer in the midst of this deso
lation. There were simple lace cur
tains in the windows, from one of
which a pretty little Italian girl was
looking.
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