Photograph from Comando Supremo, Italian Army 



TRANSPORTING A BIG GUN IN THE CADORE DISTRICT 



Guns like this can be brought into effective positions only over the best of roads. The 

 Italians are probably the most remarkable mountain-road builders in the world, and the 

 highways they have constructed at the front and back to their bases have excited the admira- 

 tion of all who have seen them. Their military road building serves as a line example for 

 America's unpreparedness in the matter of a system of military highways. 



the terrible fighting is going on. It is 

 about a quarter of an hour from where 

 we were stopping with Ramiro last au- 

 tumn. She has all the gravest cases that 

 are brought in from the battle and can- 

 not travel. She appealed for several 

 things urgently, among others "archetti 

 reggi-coperte," iron frames to keep the 

 bed covers from touching the wounded 

 men, and the kind clearing-house people 

 told me I might order ioo immediately. 



ITALIAN CANTEEN IN AMERICAN CHURCH 

 ENTERTAINS AMERICAN SAILORS 



You read perhaps of a transport ship, 

 English, sunk a while ago in the Medi- 



terranean ; 400 lost. The survivors are 

 at Savona being looked after. English 

 hospitals are being opened at the front 

 in Italy, for some English guns are there 

 now assisting in this terrific battle. I 

 think they are going to try to transport 

 men to Saloniki by land as much as pos- 

 sible, so as to avoid the sea. I am going 

 this week to the station to meet the Eng- 

 lish troops. A canteen — which I shall 

 also see this week — has been opened here 

 in the American Methodist Church and 

 school-rooms. They tell me the rooms 

 are beautiful, and it promises to be the 

 best club of the kind in Europe. The 

 other dav it was full of English soldiers 



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