Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-16
ITALIANS TIRED BUT
NOT DISCOURAGED
CONTINUED from First Pagc.l

ward appeared resolute and some
were singing. Refugees afoot and in
oXcarts crowded the fields and roads,
seeking safety from this sudden on
rush of the enemy. The party passed
Ricte. q little hamlet where Pope
Plus y was born and a small cross
road church marked the place where
he was a curate before his elevation
TO the papacy.
An air raid took place as the party
passed near the church. Five shots
were fired. but the raider got away.
Knots of soldiers filled the streets
and villages as they stood gazing at
the black pail of smoke in the east.
At the outskirts of the villages there
were long lines of CheVauN-de-frise
ready to obstruct infantry rusheS.
Along the road toward the front mil
itary telegraph lines were strung on
the tops OF bushes as there had been
no time to erect poles.
Houses all along the road had Deen
transformed into temporary Held
hospitals and marked with impro-
Nised signs. Soldiers near one house
were carrying flowers. which looked
like gaiety. but other soldiers who
followed with a funeral wreath made
il look more like death. There were
ambulances along the road but no
SlGn OF WOuluGu. AZ Ollt NllluSC iNc-
hnents of Alpini were waiting to go
forward. Batteries and field guns
were also moving down to the liver
with evergreen boughS screening the
.Ans The whole western bank of
M Piave is lined with beautiful
villas and extensive parks filled with
statuary.
The party had now reached a vii
lagc three miles from the Piave line
4 Io gh snntin1lnl1G Az
the army automobile came up the
road to the railway station a hell
hurst squarely in the road 100 yards
mead.
They are shelling the road" said
the escort as he wheeled the auto
mobile behind the station where
groups of soldiers were crouching in
of this shell came whizzing towards
the station and buried itself in the
wall
Ncrvesn Deserted
The actual river bank was now
near ana the escort gave n special
warning of rifle and machine gun
fire in addition to shrapnel from the
batteries. The town of Nervesa, on
the rivers edge, was deserted COM
pletcly as the party passed down to
the wharves and the silent town had
a supulchral aspect
The roar of artillery was now sup
plemented by the rattle of coffee
mills" as the soldiers call the ma
chine gun and the crack of rifle fire.
Officers led the way. creeping in
SINGLE iilc into an old warehouse
standing on the edge of the Piave
river. 1t had already been n target
and the side towards the river was
SieVed with machine gun fire. There
were two huge shell holes. Great
wine vats of the warehouse. still full,
had been abandoned in the hasty
Hight of the villagers.
Further down the river n huge
cloud OF smoke drifted over Senson,
where the enemy had succeeded in
making his first crossing, and was
now pressed back against the river
bank. Tho fighting at this point had
been desperate all through the day
The enemy at first occupied the viii
lagc with a large number OF ma
chine guns. There the Italians at
tackled them with artillery fire,
backed up by infantry rushes. The
lighting became desperate, with
hand -to-hand struggles. even with