Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-03

 Italy have brought much. gained dur ing their three years and a half of war, from which the Italians have pro fited and are profiting. they. them selves, are busily learning new ways of fighting totally foreign TO the modes Of warfare in France. and made necessary by the altered conditions here
 One of the most spectacular. inter estlng and important of these is the 'TelefericO. which the Italians have made an almost indispensable adjunct of their mountain fighting. and which jAe French now use on the mountain ous part Of the sector they have taken over.
 The -Teleferico is an aerial tram way or transportation line which. built of slender cables supported by steel towers, spans valley. and n half an hour carries food and amm,si- non, even men, 10 heights that would require hours on foot or by vehicle.
 The ~TelefericO"- is thorough and efficient on Mount Pasubia. just 10 the west Of Arsiero. where. at a height or mOres than F000 feet. Italian Alpini and ether troops have held the Aus tTaians m check since May. 1915. In this defense the wonderful aerial tram has played it's silent bur import ant part
 The Italian military authorities. who week earlier had permitted the cor respondents accredited to the French armies 10 Tisit all the naval defenses which protect Venice and to see in detail the unique type of warfare that goes on among the lagoons and marshes between the city ond the lower Piaye River. granted similar permission to the Associated Press correspondent to see and study this other and unique style Of fighting.
 Soon after leaving the pretty vil- lage city Of SchiO. just south of the foothills that lead up to imposing Mount PasubiO. the broad. stOne-hed- ded road begins 10 rise perilOusly. curving each thirty feet with sicken- ing -hairpin' curves. Soon the cars of the correspondents refused to trav- el upward further over the icy roads, and were abandoned when they show ed an inclination to slide backwards over the precipiee
 It was then that the "teleferic0" was rescTted to. just as it has on countless occasions been used to bring wounded men down quickly when delay and labOriOus mule-back transportation would cost them their lives
 Far out over the valley to the right of the steep road. seemingly begin ming nowhere and ending nowhere. and supported at long intervals by massive steel uDrights resembling the towers that carry high power electric wires, were four strands of cable. and. as the correspondents contemplated their useless automobiles. a tiny car riage or car loaded with sacks of pO- tatOes came swinging diZzily along two of the strands. mysteriOusly working it's way upward until it van ished out Of sight behind a shoulder of the mountain.
 ~ln a few moments we'll he com fOrJably elscOnced in one Of those and won't need the automobiles" said the dashing young Italian officer head ing the party
 4 short walk up the road led to a low wooden shed-the starting point of enc of the teleferico lines that en- circles Mount PasubiO from its base to its crest And into the cars the party crept, two to a car and in reclining DOsition-then to be swung off into space on the first stage of the journey to the top
 There are several stages to the journey. each requiring about half an hour, and each becoming increasingly nerve-racIing since the cars. which start off at a rather smart pace. slow down in the middle Of the stretch. come almost to a stop. and leave the amateur traveller suspended dizzily anywhere from one to five thousand feet above the nearest jagged rock. Generally also. on the hieher lines. the pause comes during a snowstOrm at this season.
 However the danger. according to the "Old timers" who travel daily. is small The telefericO will carry a maximum weight of over 6G0 pounds to each little car-and but two human beings are permitted to ride except in the case of urgent wounded, who are slowed away three to a car. The greatest danger of accident lies Tn rocking the boat as it were. agitating the car so that it might tip or rock sideways and spill one out.
 AuE AAG ans dAE 5AHFNlACA III l-AtAi 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 dizZiest angles and that have fewer steel supports. are not used by passengers but carry only ammunition and supplies At certain times Of the year the lines highest up cannot be- operated by day because they are in view of the Austrian 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 the front trenches. which are hewn out of rock but which in winter are generally showed in so that the troops embed themselves in snow trenches and live somewhat the life of the EsQuimsux At points the first positions run within thirty yards of those of the Austrians. and the war fare that is carried on is largely that of snipinE and machine-gun inter