The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-28
ITALIANS AND AUSTR|ANS FIGHT ON ADAMELLO, NAMED BY VIRGIL
 THE KING OF THE ITALIAN ALPS
Soldiers Meet in Death Grip Highest Point Where War Has Been Waged in History of World-Birds Are Not Frightened Away by Booming of Guns

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 cor respondent to slowly climb the Adam clio crest and in this period the Ital- ians succeeded in blowing off the top of another mountain called CoIdi Lana, which suddenly burst into the air with its defenders who were on their side trying to explode mine which would blow to pieces the Italian troops. One of the curious facts connected with this mountain front is that mo- where have the song birds deserted it.
 'If I were to write home that every night I go to sleep listening sto the boom of cannon l would be- readily believed, but if I added that often I lie awake for hours listening to the liquid trill of friendly nightin gales in the nearby woods, my statement would be taken for a soldiers yarn," said an artillery officer late one night as he and the correspondent stopped on their way across a wooded little valley to listen to a nightingale's song. 'That song is not an exception, he explain ed, ''I have crossed this valley about this time of night for weeks on my way to my quarters, and that bird is always singing, no matter how violent the ar 1 ti1ery noise.''
 In the upper mountain districts the correspondent noted that the skylarks held to their usual haunts with the same tenacity as the nightingales in the lower country, flying high 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.
 This explanation was advanced by an officer of the Alpini who had been 1f1iT birds are used to the noises peculiar to the mountains, such 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, on the backs of the older soldiers of the re- serve, on sure-footed little donkeys, on railway air-lines that bridge the valleys, to the lower country where the fighting is better known, along the | Isonzo river, where hills are hardly more than a thousand feet in height, where they drop to five hundred, three hundred feet, before the line slides off into the Adriatic.
 ! That 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 cannon
 were lacking, may be appreciated by
 the fact that now the army is equip ped with numerous heavy cannon, new artillery r1anufa ctured in Italy.
 | The correspondent saw these guns
 at work towards Monte Kuk and Moh-
 te San Michele, the hitherto impreg- nable hills held by the AuStrians and
 again and again taken by the Italian soldiers at tremendous sacrifices, only to be compelled to surrender each time
 the crests of the hills because of the
 lack of heavy artillery to silence the
 heavy Austrian cannon.