Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-06-03
AUSTRIAN CROWNLAND
OF GOERZ AND GADIScA
More Important to Dual Monarchy
Than New York Is to This Country.
Especial to The Bulletin.)

Especial to The Bulletin.)
Washington, D. C. June 2.-Parallel-
ing the mighty drive from west to
east that the Germans are making in
Gahcia, hundreds of thousands of
fresh we'll equipped Italian troops are
pressing a rapid invasion against vital
points in Austria's Mediterranean en-
pre-, and, according to news dispatch
es, the early great battles in this new
war theatre will find the Italians wide
Iy spread over the first of the coast
land provinces, well on their way to-
ward Triest, a port more valuable to,
Austria than is New York to the Unit
ed States. A bulletin dealing with
the Austrian crownland Goerz and
Gradisca, prepared by the National
Geographic Society says of this re-
gion
Through Goerz and Gradisca runs
the valley that forms the main artery
of traffic of the northwestern Austrian
coaStlandS with the interior. From the
Austrian province of Carinthia, in the
north, GOerZ and Gradisca is bordered
by Italy to the Gulf of Triest. In the
northern and central parts, this bound
airy is very mountainous, a way al
most impossible for armies and their
supply trains, way of sharply devel-
oped raVineS and guliieS, of precipiCeS
and bare rocky submits, and a way
broken through by but a few wild, in
different passes. In the south, is a
coastal plain which allows of far
easier access into Austria. At is in
this plain that the Italian troops cap
tured the first Austrian towns.
"Carniola, Istria and the Triestine
territory bound the province on the
east and south excepting its % miles
of coast along the northern shore Of
the Gulf of Triest. The crownland
has an area of 1925 square miles, all
the southern part of which is ex-
ceedingly fertile and aboundant in
wine grapes and in fancy fruits. Silk
production, is also, one of the rich in
dustries of the plain. Vineyards are
everywhere, and the wines rival any
of those produced in the Dual Mon
archy. The climate of the valley
which almost bisects the crownland is
one of many lovely northern stretches
where the softest weather reigns.
In the fest and north. and in the
east, the country is mostly mountain
Gus, or bewilderingly broken and billy.
Higher mountain ranges almost en-
vlose the crOwnland, the Julian Alps
crossing it in the north, the Venetian
Alps breaking deeply into its eastern
border, and mountain series running
along it's eastern boundary. Within the
province are a number of peaks of
more than 5000 feet. The chief rivers
of the province are the Isonzo and the
Timavo, the last named, the river
that fully formed from the mountain
side, the mysterious river to which
the ancients paid wholesome respect.
'"Tne Goerz and Gradisca crownland
is not inhabited principally by Italians.
More than tWO-th1rdS, about IS per
cent of the people are Slovenas, and
the remainder are Italians, with an
1nterSp rinkling of some 2, 400 Germans.
The population, according to most re-
cent statistics. is $4,000 people. The
population is mainly an agricultural
one, being distributed through the
provinces in small villages. Goerz,
the capital of the crownland and its
largest city, only has a population of
$4,000. Other principal towns are Cor
mons, Monfalcone. Kirchheim, Gadisca
and Aquileia. Not one of these places
counts 5000 citizens.
'"The crownland has no port Of any
consequence, its short coast line lack
ing any good harbor site. Grade. its
first port, is accessible to the larger
kind of coasting vessels. This place
has been reported as captured by the
Italians. In general, the coast is
fringed with alluvial deposits and