Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-03
BLAMES
RAIN NOT ITALY
Vienna War Correspondent
Says Elements Triumphed
on Piave
BRIDGES SWEPT AWAY
Describes Defeat of Teutons
After Forcing of River by
Brave Troops
Special Gable to Ereninc Public Ledger

CopDTf0ht. 1918, bB NCr York T1uf7 Co.
The Hague, July ..
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Airmcn Sink PontoonS
THE Italian artillery has iu 'hn
{. bridges targets which cannot be missed
For a long time. fountains like tha
spouting of whales ascend from the
river in ever quicker succession. sud
denly airmen also appear They came
down silently from great height in
far-reaching volplanes. Now their mo-
( tors hum again and their maChinr-Guns
rattie. a rain of steel pel's down on
the pontoons which sink riddIcd.
Oh. ba,Is IVA s.,,,,'. ''''n Il rom
4 mel endanger the lives Of tbafr own MON
whom they wish 10 nrotcct ono two
three of the great C'arronf Dr,res de-
lscepd shot down. one in thn mud Of
Montello. A Nieuport comes down like
la torch hurled from heaven. The
famous Italian airman. Major RarrarCa.
Is heap of ashes His list of Victories
Is the same as that Of his most vic
torious Austrian adversary. CaDtain
Brumwoicy, who conquered thirty-four
opponents. Lieutenant Won Hoffman. in
peace time a ministerial official i'm Vi
emma, and his band dash against the
piplanes.
Like raging bulldogs. the English
now advance on their furiously swift
\ Sopwiths against our airmen. Engineers
artillery and infantry nothing. absolute
~ nltothing, avails. The enemy airrneD
are TOO numerous, the enemy's shells
! too many
Like Sisyphus multiplied a hundred
fold, the bride builders work inCessantly
They fall and disappear in the flood
without cry. They launch new pom.
toons, they think out new methods o'
q transport from bank to bank. NothinG
rhelps. absolutely nothing avails. s.,
= tinhes are bridges and footways com
pleted; six times are they destroyed.
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ne ulElsIohS Nohder on the greer
tortoise OF Mohteiio' Whlch resembles
20 coinpleteIy IN situation and in i'm
a portahee the fodsera heights on the
o'her side OF the isohzo. hEht with un
,, coveleu rear Wlhout heaNN af'IIery