Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-12

 who are slowed away three in a car.
 inc greatest danger of accident lies i'll rocking the boat as it were, ag- itating the car so that it might tip or rock sideways and spill one out.
 The trans are supported in their hair raising journeys by a half-inch steel cable, and are pulled upwards and allowed to descend-by a smaller cable that runs around a huge wheel at each end of the line and that is driven by a hydraulic motor Acci- dents are extremely rare.
 Many of the lines. those that run
 upwards at the dizzest angles and that have fewer steel supports, are not used by passengers but carry only ammunition and supplies, At cer- tain times of the year the lines highest up cannot be operated by day because
 they ara in view of the Austrians and
 make excellent targets, but at this | season it. is possible to run them con- stantly because of the snow and fog. ] The last of the lines runs almost to 1 the front trenches. which are hewn Tout of rock but which in winter are generally showed in so that the troops
 embed themselves in snow trenches
 and live somewhere the life of the Es- quimaux. At points the first position | run within thirty yards of those of | the Austrians, and the warfare that is carried on is largely that of snip ing and machinegun interchange It is quieter than at any other part of the present Italian front
 The Italians have little fear of the Austrians in the Mount Pasubio re- zion, because of the character of the
 Italian troops in this sector, who are
 among the finest in the Italian army The teleferico system does not date
 from the war but was in part installed beforehand, and was used for purely : commercially purposes, to haul UT
 supplies and food to the settlements up in the mountains. But with the
 beginning of the war. the tremendous advantages of the aerial transporta
 ton lines were instantly recognized
 and the existing lines were increased in number as fast as possible, both il { the Mount Pasubio sector, at Noun Grappa, and elsewhere
 1 Important as it is, however it is bu
 one factor in the tremendous defensiv system that has held the Austrians il , check for more than thirty months . The roads, those which already exist ed and those that have built out o the rocky sides of the mountains, ar | | another very important feature, es !, pecially when one considers that o ! their dizzy curves the high powered ! specially considers that on their dizz . curves the high powered. especial !, constructed Italian camions can hat
 huge loads to an altiture of more thas 2 5000 feet
 o Mules by the thousand have bee ' imported from North and South Amer \ ica, Spain and elsewhere. and are es pecially valuable because unlike tn . horses they seem to suffer little if a ' all from the bitter winter weather, ca . little and can go for long periods with cut the water that is so precious a : great heights.
 . Even dogs have been introduced a z beasts of burden in the higher region < because they are very sure-footed an willing. The number of horses . negligible, most of them being uset :. lower down for artillery. And the there always remains man-powe 5 which staggers upward with uncouni Y ed bundles of wood. .....-.- D The soldiers who hold the Moar
 Pasubio sector are hardy lot, and th . majority have been nesting in the com . fortahle little wooden barracks ths dot the mountains for periods of frol = F to 90 months, because while iui
 IouShS are easy enough to get tk a transportation problems in Italy al It so serious that a man coming dow tt into the plains can get farther sout 'e to his home only with difficulty. '- As compensation in part for the d l7 nied opportunity of getting home fir, T. quently and for not being able, fl 10 months on end, to enjoy the ordinal
 social intercourse of peace times, u .- men are comfortably housed and a, r. parently well fed. Many have bee J. in America and speak English, ar Tt many more come from Piedmont ar n speak French as we'll as Italian. l. The heavy work, such as shovHIlir 1T away the incessant snow, is now beir re done by deserters who were senten re ed to Imprisonment after the German l. Austrian drive. but who in many ca. se es are put to work-and find it so di l- tasteful that they have almost unan
 mously applied for permission to to into the front fighting lines again. a A train conveying German soldie Is going home on leave came into co