Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-12
STORIES OF THE WAR
With French in Italy.
Correspondence of The Associated
 Press1

Wbtfl FTSuGu tf itAJYs Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
 Though the French troops who have come to Italy have brought much, gained during their three years and half of war. from which the Italians have profited and are profting, they, l themselves, are busily learning new ways of fighting totally foreign to the modes of warfare in France, and made necessary by the altered conditions in Itary.
 One of the most spectacular, inter esting. and important of these is the "Teleferico," which the Italians have made an almost indispensable adjunct of their mountain fighting, and which I the French now use on the mountain ous parts of the sector they have talk en over. | The "Teleferico" is an aerial tram way or transportation line which, built
 of slender cables supported by steel l towers, spans valleys and in half an hour carries food and ammunition, even men, to heights that would re- fquire hours on fsot or by vehicle 1 The NTeleferico'' is thorough and ef- | ficient on Mount Pasubia, just to the
 west of Arsiero. where, at a height of
 more than ,000 feet, Italian Alpini and other troops have held the Aus trians in check since May, 1915! In this defense the wonderful aerial tram
 has played it's silent but important part.
 The Italian military authorities. who
 a week earlier had permitted the cor respondents accredited to the French
 armies to visit all the naval defenses which protect Venice and to see in de- tail the unique of warfare that goes on among the lagoons and marshes be- tween the city and the lower Piave
 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 Pa , suhio, the broad, stene-bedded road
 begins to rise perilously. curving each thirty or forty feet with sickening the correspondents refused to travel upward further over the icy roads. and
 were abandoned when they showed ar
 inclination to slide backward over the Crecipice.
 It was then that the T"eleferico' : was resorted to. just as it has on the other countless occasions been used to
 bring wounded men down quickly
 when delay and laborious mule -bacl transportation would cost them theil l lives.
 s Far out over the valley to the right !, of the stecp road, seemingly begin.
 ming nowhere and ending nowhere, ana
 supported at long intervals by mas . sive steel uprights resembling tht | flowers that carry high power electric wires, were four strands of cable, and as the correspondents contemplated
 their useless automobiles, a tiny car 3 riage or car loaded with sacks of DO e tatoes came swinging dizzil along tw' of the strands, mysteriously. working \ its way upward until it vanished ou of sight behind shoulder of tn
 mountain.
 ''In a few moments we'll be com . fortably ensconced in one of thos a and won't heed the automobiles, sai, 8 the flashing young Italian officer head s ing the party.
 A short walk up the road led to
 low wooden shed-the starting poin s of one of the "Teleferico" lines tha e encircles Mount Pasubie from it's bas # to its crest And into the cars the par a l ty crept, two to a car and in a reciin
 ing poSition-then to be swung off in
 to space on the first stage of tn
 journey to the top.
 n There are several stages to the jour e ney. each requiring about half an houl is and each becoming increasingly nerve d racking since the cars. which star
 toff at 8 rather smart pace. slow dow
 in the middle of the stretch, come al ', most to stop. and leave the amateu :. traveller suspended rizzily anywher " from one to five thousand feet abov n the nearest jagged rock Generally al t so, on the higher lines, the paus
 Icomes during snowstorm at this sea
 lson.
 ,ol However, the danger, according t ,t the "old timers" who travel daily
 small. The "teleferico" will carry 2, maximum weight of over 500 pound ie to each little car-and but two hu V man beings are permitted to ride ex
 nAxk in tho nasa of urgent wonndai