of Italy and General Cadorna at Castelnuovo 32

The Peril in the Clouds 33

Alpini Going Into Action 68

On the Roof of the World 69

A Heavy Howitzer in the High Alps 82

An Outpost in the Carnia 83

"_Halt!_ Show Your Papers!" 160

A Nieuport Biplane About to Take the Air 161

Verdun's Mightiest Defender: a 400-mm. Gun 172

A Gun Painted to Escape the Observation of Enemy
Airmen 173

Australians on the Way to the Trenches 196

The Fire Trench 197

A British "Heavy" Mounted on a Railway-Truck
Shelling the German Lines 238

Buried on the Field of Honor 239

_These illustrations are from photographs taken by the
Photographic Sections of the Italian, French, British, and Belgian
armies and by the author._

ITALY AT WAR

I

THE WAY TO THE WAR

When I told my friends that I was going to the Italian front they
smiled disdainfully. "You will only be wasting your time," one of them
warned me. "There isn't anything doing there," said another. And when
I came back they greeted me with "You didn't see much, did you?" and
"What are the Italians doing, anyway?"

If I had time I told them that Italy is holding a front which is
longer than the French and British and Belgian fronts combined (trace
it out on the map and you will find that it measures more than four
hundred and fifty miles); that, alone among the Allies, she is doing
most of her fighting on the enemy's soil; that she is fighting an army
which was fourth in Europe in numbers, third in quality, and probably
second in equipment; that in a single battle she lost more men than
fell on both sides at Gettysburg; that she has taken 100,000
prisoners; that, to oppose the Austrian offensive in the Trentino, she
mobilized a new army of half a million men, completely equipped it,
and moved it to the front, all in seven days; that, were her trench
lines carefully ironed out, they would extend as far as from New York
to Salt Lake City; that, instead of digging these trenches, she has
had to blast most of them from the solid rock; that she has mounted
8-inch guns on