Arizona republican., 1918-08-19

every sign of attempting to come through there.
 The Italian army stood well: lost one little height; lost very little; stood beautifully against this attack. And so, for three days of this action, more and more it became concentrated on Tulon, and here they seemed to be coming through. In looking over the profile maps of this region just before the attack, and, in talking it over at headquarters, 1 remember asking if there was any danger in that region, expect anything to happen up there. and the answer was No, you cannot because that country is so well de- tended no enemy in his senses would think of breaking through that A battalion could hold that against regi- ment after regiment"
 That position was held by two di- visions, extending over probably IA to 20 miles. These two divisions were little inclined to be rebellious though not much, when this thing started; but over on the Austrian front the Rus sians had been spreading propaganda among the Austrians, and they had got some of the Austrian regiments in a state of rebellion, whereupon, the Germans. as part of this plot, trans
 ferred two of those disaffected di- visions and put them right among the Italian divisions, and turned them loose to work on what they had learned from the Russians.
 These men began to meet and began to talk-fraternize. In that country everybody talks a dozen languages. You can almost identify any man in that region of the world because they have some language in common. They talked-talked between the trenches and the conversation went something like this, for among the Austrians there had been agents, putting into
 their minds the things they were eX- | pected to say. The Austrians would
 say to the Italians. We hear the war
 is going to end in December" The | Italians would say. That's funny; we | hear the same thing And the Aus trians would say, T don't see any use | in fighting. do you?" The Italians would say, Sure, what's the use Then they talked it over.
 i They would come to this conclusion
 Ii any darned snipe of a general, with | gold lace all over him, tried to make
 them fight out there. they would be | darned if they would do it; and they got to agreeing that if they were called
 to make a charge on either side, they
 would come over, throw up their hands
 shake hands, and say, "Comrade" SC
 they had fine fraternization every
 night that thing was going on. The
 Italians were in the meantime being
 thoroughly disaffected with their gov ernment and especially wildly prejud iced against England by matter being | circulated secretly through tht trenches. The officers tried to stop it
 but you can not stop it entirely. The proclamation was dropped from air planes.
 Finally came one of the cleveres
 tricks of all The fake newspapers ,l Newspapers get up into those noun
 tains very seldom. The men are al ways hungry for news. They used tt ask me for newspapers before the!
 asked me for chocolate or cigarettes One day the newspapers came up il
 great quantities. They seemed to b.
 regular Roman and Milan papers There were the same advertisement
 and the headlines were the same, st
 they tell me- and they say if you pu
 the paper opposite real copy vol
 could not tell which was the fOrger. and which was not. But the iron page was different. The front page made up so that it looked exactly righ ; contained stories of awful starvation in Italy; awful conditions about foot and food riots in these mems nom l towns. which had been put down wit ) enormous slaughter of women an } children. not by the Italian troops, bu by French and British troops importe ? for the purpose
 5 All a lie. There was only one basi ? of fact in that-there had been foo riot a few weeks before. It happens in this way: Somebody had manage < the stoppage of the wheat supply. N = bread got in there. It was staged { t bring on the riot. That riot was pu 2 down by the Italian military police. } To be concluded in tomorrows issu l of The Republican.