The Nenana daily news., 1918-05-31
ITALIAN SCENE
 OF ACTIVITIES
 IN MOUNTAINS
Correspondence of The Associated
 PresS)


 Headquarters Italian Army, April 12.-Attention is now being center ed on the mountain front, in Italy, for all the indications are that this is to be the main scene of coming operations instead of the flat river country to the east. With these operations already starting, it is well to take a survey of this mountain section for its main points are likely to be heard of very often in the coming months. Already along these mountain roads there is the, stir of great forces of men, guns, and horses moving into position, and great battle is already on, with the Italians on the offensive, in the Bresena mountain sector.
 The Tridentine Alps which stretch across northern Italy form natural fertilization between the two oppos- ing lines, and it is in the lower sec tion of these ranges that the military operations are now unfolding. While it is front of several hundred miles from the Adriatic up to the Swiss frontier, yet part of this stretch is impenetrable mountain peaks covered with eternal snow, and there are practically only five lines of approach where breaks in the mountain heights permit military operations to be carried on.
 These five lines of approach or communication through the Triden- tine Alps are the valley regions known as the Valtellina, meaning see-saw from its winding character, which leads down to Lake Como and toward Milan; second, the Val Cam onica, leading southward toward Brescia; third, the Val Giudicaria, which comes down just east of the west shore of Lake arda; fourth, Val Lagarina, which follows the course of the Adige river on the east of Lake Garda, and comes GoNn from Trent toward Verona; and fifth, the Val Sugana, which follows the course of the Btenta river and winds around the Asiago region down past Bassano.
 These five main highways through the mountains become m,,e import ant from military standpoint, as they come eastward toward the Asiago and Brenta region. All the chief pressure has been in the east erly region in the past, and the in cications at present are that it will be in this region.
 The great fighting ground, then would be along the two valleys on the east, Val Lagarina and Val Sugana, and chief attention should be centered on them and their neigh boring heights of Asiago, the Crap pa and Mount Tomba. Both of them come down from Trent, the Aus trlan storm center which sends for ward troops and supplies through both these valleys to the mountain fronts beyond. From Trent the enc my has railroads down both these valves. .:. ... ... :.@:=. ::- !
 The Lagarina valley come straight south to Verona and the open plain. It was down here that the enemy made his first rush two years ago, pushing from Reverto west toward Mount Pasubia. He was driven back then, and all the indications are that he will be held again if he comes that way.
 The most important approach is by way of the Val Sugana, or Brenta river. From its headquarters near Trent the Brenta makes a wide cir cult before it comes down to the open plain at Bassano, and it is,w:th- in this circuit that the Asiago plateau and the hardest fighting ground lies. The Austrian railway from Trent comes down the valley to Primolana, about twenty miles above Bassano, thus keeping up steady flow of men and supplies. That is why the Italian airplanes have centered attention on Primo la1o which is oftan roartiopa1 in