The evening world. Newspaper, November 19, 1915, Page 20

5 f bi t : ‘ ' i } RAIN SHELLS Nothing Like This Bombardment on Western) THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER GREAT GUNS OF ITALIANS ON AUSTRIANS Front, Says Von Wiegand—Thousands of Unburied Dead Lying Before Trenches. By Karl H. von Wiegand. Special Staff Correspondent of The World.) Copyright, 1918. by by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). (Special Cable Despatch to The World.) WITH THE AUSTRIAN ARMY ON THE ISONZO, Doberdo Piatean Corps Headquarters of Archduke Joseph, Nov. 15 (by courier to Vienna, | via Amsterdam, Nov. 19).—Tho fourth great battle for Goeritz and the commanding heights of the Doberdo Plateau, still in the hands of the Austro-Hungarian army under Gen, Boroevic, commenced two days ago and is now on fn full force and, under weather conditions, probably un- @zampled in any other of the numerous theatres of war. The day and night cannonade of the concentrated Italian artillery, eplendidly served, surpasses anything I saw during the June and Septem- ber offensives on the western front, while at Tarnow and Gorllce, where the Germans and Austrians smashed through the Russien lines by weight of fron and started the Ru steam roller m @isappeared in the centre of the vast Muscovite Empire, |» declared by these who were there, now here, as having been child's play in comparison, The Doberdo Plateau and a portion of Mont Podgora are called “tho bell.” They justify the name. Nothing else could give « rane idea of the fighting and the conditions under which it ts taking place. With the third battle on the Isonzo River lasting o almost uninterrupted fighting from Monfalcone on the dove Gooritz, having brought the Italians no appreciable results, Count Ca- @orna, the Italian genoralissimo, two deys ago began a fourth attack Against the Doberdo Plateau and Goeritz. ‘This time, Instead of a general at-—<— << tack upon Gen. Boroevic’s front Of | abroad, that Auntriana and Hungar- eighty kilometres (forty-nine miles), | iang do not fght thelr beat unless along the Isonzo from the Adriatic to | Germans are among them has to be Tolmino, Gen, Cadorna is concentrat- | revised here. So far | haven't ing the greater portion of his (est!- German, not even an officer o mated) 1,600 guns, and throwing ‘he | server, and | have particularly kept fut weight of his army against the! ny eyes open for them. Doberdo Plateau and the heights around Goeritz, on a front not ex- GREAT POLITICAL IMPORTANCE ATTACHES TO THE BATTLE. ceeding ten or twelve miles. HUGE ITALIAN GUNS ARE BAT-| If the Austrians and Hungarians have not received their just share of TERING TRENCHES. Ing backward until it front, successful task, the terrific Mehting, heroie endurance of terrible suffering | ander fearful conditions during a long winter, in Whioh Gen, Boroevic held fA million Russians there while the Germans were enabled to operate elsewhore, has never been appreciated | or given the place In this war that it probably deserves. The situation ia Just the same on} the Isonzo, where Gen. Boroevie, | Archduke Joseph and Gen von Wura, lin the face of odds estimated at more than three to one, have held) their lines with the same tenacious. | ness with which Gen, Boroevio held the Carpathians against the Russians. AUSTRIAN ARMY 18 “ANVIL” OF THE FIGHT. Had Gen, Cadorna succeeded in making @ way through the Isonzo front in any of his three compara- ite political and moral effect in Italy would have been tremendous, it would not have been without moral effect in Austria- Hungary, and it might have ni i tated drawing reinforcements from the Serbian or Russian fronts, weak- ening the forces there, retarding the eo nt fronts proportion- ately, perhaps not without affecting to some extent the general situation, Thus, while Austrian and Hunga- rian forces are operating offensively in Serbia and southern Russia, Gon, Boroevic ts the “Anvil” of the Isonzo upon which Gen. Cadorna’s blows have fallen, as is the Crown Prince Rupprecht between Arras and Ypres of the French and English, and German Crown Prince around Verdun and In the Argonne, Accompanied by First Lieut. von Gartner, a cavalry officer, wounded in @ cavalry attack in Russia, since which time he has been on duty on Gen. Boroevic's staff, I arrived on the Doberdo Plateau yesterday from the general headquarters of Gen. Boroevic in a drenching rain, Gon, Boroevie had kindly given me permission to visit the Interesting points of his front, extending eighty kilometres from Monfalcone to Tol- mino, north of Goerits, He gave me one of his staff automobiles, an order- ly, a chauffeur and an officer, al- though automobile ires are almost worth their weight in gold, and ga oline is not far from $1 @ gallon. MONT SAN MICHELE I8 KEY TO For two weeks it has rained In tor- rents, It has rained with but brief imterruptions for the threo days I have been on thie front so far. in the iow places along the lsonzo ie @ cea of mud. The men of the | Awetro-Hungarian army in the front trenches are fighting in water and mud that at times reaches the hips, while the trenches cut, drilled and blasted through the rook over the @teep heights during the heaviest dewnpour are veritable mountain tor- rents. Into this meses the Italian heavy batteries, which include 30, 85 and 38} centimetre (11.8, 13.7 and 14.8 inch) mortars, and ship guns, from the flats beyond the lsonzo pour a hail of big shells and shrapnel that give the heights and trenches the appearance of voloances. ‘The bravery and unbelievable en- @urance of the troops under the in- @escribable conditions, as I have seen the credit, glory and prestixe of their SITUATION. sacrifices, bravery and contribution to] Rougbly, the present Isonzo front the situation of the central powers, | pegins at the Adriatic, south of Mon- they have only themselves to blame, |faicone, It runs east of that town, So far as Tam aware Iam the fret | which is in the hands of tho Italians, | d foreign correspondent permitted to| along the edge of the Doberdo Pla- visit the Isonzo front, although the|teau to near Sagrado, and thence | Italian war has now been on for sia} nlong the vastern bank of the Lsonao | months. In faot, it is the first time} to above Gradiect, which is also ia in the entire fifteen montha of war that I have been given the opportu- nity to see something of the Austrian and Hungarian armies in the field. The importance of the Austrian- ltalian conflict In the series of world ware appears to be greatly underesti- mated generally, especially the pos- sible developments and bearing on the general situation of the central powers should Gen. Cadorna succeed in breaking through the Austrian front and take Goeritz and Trieste. Less strategically, but politically, the Italian offensive on the Isonzo has some analogous features to the at- them here, are almost incredible, Certainly the idea, #0 widespr tempt of the Russians to break 4'through the Carpathians, where the ltalian possession, it crosses the lsonzo halfway be- tween Gradiaca and Goeritz, touching within 200 yards of the southern oul- skirts of Goeritz, and thence along the southwestern siope of Mont Pod- gora, the steep hill of 800 feet which commands Goeritz. At varying altitudes of 350 to 200 fee? it runs easterly to St. Florian and tho west slope of Mont Sabotino, t second key to Gueritz, thence on the west bank of the Lsongo to Plava, Here the Italian line crosses the to the east side of that town and there is flerce fiehting for Britof, and along the general line of the Isonzo to Tolmino, which 1s still in of the Austrians and Hun; the Doberdo Plat varyingly from 326 the lsonto » with numero poaks even higher, The plateau forn 4 sharp semicircle in the line, < £ AND MusICc HE Aeolian Company has provided one 4 the opportunities of the ir for brings \ if music into your home and home fe—in win Es time to add to the enjoyment of this Day. 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The southwestern knob of San Michele is known as the “Mountain of Corpses,” from the heaps of Italian dead there in front of the Austrian | and Hungarian trenches, into which a veritable hail of shella at times s| rending, tearing and throwing frag- ments of the long dead in all direc- tions. The picture is declared to be beyond imagination in ghastliness. An officer of ono regiment told me there were over 2,000 dead immedi- | ately in front of the line held by his |or supply column,” * | sarily, when you could see ten times | Wilozynski ran in and said he must gs for his fears hip, ability a! t he was selected to | hold the m ‘ critical point in Gen. Roroevic's Isonzo line. Whit Pachouke Hat © the stock market opened FOR His F oY PRAISE fairly active, changes in prices were The Archduke reuaived me in his|*mall and dealings were almost en- working room at corps headquarters, |tirely professional. Copper where I was presented to his Im- were much lese active, Ratiroad in- perlal Highness by bis General Sta suey were strong. Northern Pacific « f, Lieut. Col. —, “The Dukia Pass was terrible dur-|°4vanced to 1178-4. ‘The usual raid ing those months, but it was no more | occurred, causing declines in war or- difficult than our task here for | der iasues ranging from 1 to 21-2 several months against great odds, | soints, but did not bring out much and in the past weeks under fearful’ weather conditions,” remarked the|Stook, and market recovered greater t of the decline, Oll stocks were Archduke, after expressing his pleas- ure and extending me an invitation ve in second hour, Texas Ojl ad- to visit his lines. ‘od 18 points to 194; California The Archduke is a soft spoken, very | Petroleum, 16-8 to 26 pleasant man, wnaffectedly demo-| can Petroleum 21-8 to 043-8. Market cratic, and, I found, excoedingly {relapsed into a dull period around popular with his troops, where he| noon, takes a keen personal interest in the| During the afternoon the market Archduke hart held Dukla P| the strategicall vital pass of Carpathians, against the Ruagian on- | aughts for many months. cet . —— and Mexi- common soldier. Offcers and men|was at a complete standstill. Tran- spoke in high terms of him, which I/satcions were few, and price changes did not find to be the case with all|/smail, Industrial Alcohol gained, 6 mombers of the nobility and aristoc-| points. American Locomotive pre- iding high rank in the army.| ferred 3. Toward the close prices the well?” 1 Italians fight eaeee off for lack of buyers. ’ | Pacific wold at 189 1-4 ‘At first they were inclined to be! 195, off 61-2 points and 21-2 per cent. shy, now they fight well, and/dividend. Selling was light, mostly daily better,” said the Archduke, | realizing. ‘Tho Italians come on with treman-| dous olan. The shock is much greater | Union Studebaker at 1 = tons. than in Russian charges, but the first) yw shock once withstood, the Italians) ""” ° “nee from trerions closing: quickly flow back, while the Russtans| ae Pi. lev. lak, om, come slowly but steadily on until shot! {ike Cord Mine. ZN 8K TN + ts jown, = “The Itallan temperament and im- : pulsiveness manifests itself in bis fighting. As a rule I place smail|\= credence In the statements of prison- ers. Charges are nearly always made by fresh troops, and these, when they have made one charge and been re- pulsed, are taken to the rear and|\" given @ long rest, which Gen. Ca-| <i dorna, with probably wore than three times as many troops as I have, can do, but T cannot.” } 70,000 bate Ta DAY INTO ONE penal i+ ee He said there tn a maaad difference | |» between the fighting of the Southern and Northern Italian. Archduke voiced an admiration of Gen, ‘ dorna’s artillery which I found to general on the entire line. He spoke especially of the tremendous num- ber of guna, which he estimated at 150, of which 150 are of the heaviest ¥pe. Fhe Archduke drew out « map on which the approximate position of the lines was shown. The [talian's tac- tics, he sald, had changed in the last few days, In that he was concentrat- ing his attacks, eapecially the artil- lery, against the Archduke's Doberdo lines, He said there had heen days when the Italians fired 70,000 shells and shrapnell in his sector. The Arch. duke gave mo permission to viait |} various points. “But you must leave there at day- break or lie in @ cavern or hole all as all wpproaches are under shel! fire,” he sald, At an unearthly hour, under the guidance of ® Captaip of the staff, who is in charge of the ammunition supply columns to the front, I started for Han Michele. “I suppose you FREE CLECEL ETE +++ es” FER F sao be SEE FERS ESESEEEEECEELE EEE Mime Viele o ee wer. eo +i! ave long before this made your peace with the beyond, for even at night every cow path in rear of our lines is under the scatter or spread fire of the Italian artilier: in hope of catching an ammunition warned the Arch- duke's Chief of Staff. In a drenching rain that soon Nibodd through waterproofs like a °, floundered down the roi darkness #o intense that Lieut Gartner and I took hans w one another, while th the way. A snell from one of the Italian feeling in the darkness for somethin, struck In the mud some distan the right, followed a moment lat another, nearer, but still short. “I don't know whether you are patd for this sort of thing, but it strikes me as rather foollsh of you deliber ately to hunt for trouble unneces- ttt newSaeess +i+! Bar ecee Free sPee ited, “hare. Chant BP Reees. 1+ U.S. SERVICE | 1S HALTED. LONDON, Nov. 19.—The correspond- more by daylight froin one of the ob-|ent at Zurich of the Central News servation points on the aleate, \0 |} forwards a report that it has been much less danger,” growled @ Cap- tain of artillery, who was much less | 4ecided to suspend steamship service concerned about the shells than dis. | between Italy and America until ar- gruntled over the loss of balf a night’s|rangements are made to deal ade- treasured sleep. quately with the menace of subma. ————— rines to shipping im the Mediterr: PAID $229 FOR A HUBBY, |=— BUT HE DIDN'T ARRIVE a » Ps Mrs, Zuhl Has Matchmaker Arrested] U) ; - Wien She Gets Neither Spouse ry Nor Her Money Back. i Mrs. Agnes Zuhl, a widow, forty x years old, of No, 429 Lenox Avenue, db appeared in the Washington Heights and boxy mode! Ath Police Court today against John het} Wilozynski, a butcher, of No, 169 ri different yet East Houston Street, whom she ac- cused of swindling. “I want to get married,” she told Magistrate — Deuel, josynski brought mo a man’ on Oct 10, He special fabrics, ie 28 2h ie tf said he was Joseph Jacofsky, and he } was Willing to marry, Next day, | fl Wilozynskit came to me and said Jacofsky wanted $80 to start a little grocery store. I gave It, Later, he wot $20 more. Wo were to be mar- ried Oct, 20, but on the day before, have $120 right away to get Jacofsky out of prison. 1 gave It, “He did not come to marry me, #0 regiment, and Archduke Joseph estl- mated that there were more than 10,- | 000 unburied dead in front of bis tine. | The Doberdo Plateau is tactically | not an advantageous line of defense for Gen, Boroevic, and it was origin- ally not planned’ to make a atand thers against the Ital Because of its defensive disadvantages no steps Were taken to prepare positions, but when the It sustained their firat repulse there, and it was found, @ stand could be made, orders came to hold the line, with their splendid artillery make th Hungarian trenches on San Michele a veritable. hell by catching the Aus- 1 near Monfalcone ¢ fe .inte the rear of the Austrian lines facing north- with gune ward of Pod- uthwesterly of the semi-circle the Doberdo Plateau ia held by the Archduke Joseph, the defender 0 Dukia Pass, and known as the Buda- pesier, becduse he ix the only Arc duke living there. His corps is al- most wholly Hungarian, with sprinkling of Roumanians from Tran sylvania, and is to a large extent the same LOOPS Comprising the corpe of Gen. Boroevic's army with which we I went to see the grocery store and found only & lumber yard. Last night lasuce 19, 1915. STEAMSHIP CO, COUNSEL MAY INVOLVE BOY-ED He and Von Papen May Be Named in Trial of Anti-Neutrality | Case: | Intimation has been made to the! Government that the counsel for the Hamburg-American line are ready to concede the activity of Capt. 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