Show DEEP SNO SNOW HAlTS WARIN WAR IN ITALIAN M MOUNTAINS Winter Vinter Campaign Stayed as Romans and Are re Both Held in iii Grip of Great W r h 11 hit i t e Storms ilIA MAY Y CLOSE ENEMY'S LINES INTO AUSTRIA Pass in Alps Vital ital Link to Germans Blocked by bT Front From 10 to 15 Feet Terrific White hite Storms I General 10 London Loudon c- c of ot n rt offensive In the the went test t heightened bel b th the ilic r tu a nil by r report port from today od that t f Germane German bl have again closed loell the thet Sh anti Dutch borders border There Theno o frontiers frontier r. r be b virtually l hermetically hermet sealed for Cor thirty d days Ou lu ha the fighting fh front the te lull hill continue Yh The Italian were ner ulc nl In lu local enterprises enterprise dur- dur I lug u i t the h Int tn t four twenty our t-our hours hour Snow no nu T lit is fulling h heavily In the DOt and In is already proving pro n ally to the Italians No Xo lar laree e fighting Ity I is II now OOT looked for on that lint theatre until spring I I HEADQUARTERS IN INI I 1 NOR NORTHERN ITALY reALY Wednes Wednes- lay day Jan 9 By By the Associated Press Press The The enemy's winter campaign campaign cam cam- appears appeals to to have c been interrupted interrupted interrupted inter inter- seriously if not Hot halted definitely definitely by heavy y Ica snowfalls during Juring thelast the thelast last twenty four hours The sno snow covers the mountain front to a depth of from three thice to five feet Monte lont Grappa which I is the central point of ot the operations between the Pia Plays Pla e and aud tho the Brt nta rivers livers has Mas three feet cl of snow while white further north the positions occupied by In tho thu enemy arc 1 hurled burled to a much greater depth Tho ThoI j I snow now barrier Is operating strongly against t the enem enemy as the they are aro on the tho j higher summits while the Italian naHan ItalianI I forces are on the lo lower er ground sloping I toward the flue plain I Little 1 I f On Monte Grappa which Is the domI dominating dom dom- I held h by the tho Italians and on Monte Monto and Monte I Caprile nearby held by the tho enemy the fell ell off ocr today and 1 there ro was little activity beyond patrol mOi move move- i meats ments Most of oC the soldiers are busy clearing the tl mountain paths so 50 as to I permit the steady tead movement mo of ot supplies Huge tractor snowplows snowplow's are arc being used and III sledges are taking the thu places ot of trucks s for COl cari carrying food and munitions In addition to the Interruption at the immediate frost front the hea heavy snowfall ma may clo clo- cloo o the enemy's lino IIno of communication communication com coin froth from AUt Austria southward I into Ital Italy I Alpine hand Unitt Closed I IThe The principal jj route runs through the thc an Alpine Alpino pass and has a n railway railway rail rail- wa way down own to Trent and thence to which Is IK only ohly ten miles mites from Monte Grappa and the fighting roil It IB ls this route which has hag been open up tip to this time line and ami has han given the enem enemy direct communication to th the front While the lower section is not not blocked Indications are that pass pas which is th the vital II Hk k in the route Is 18 blocked cd by hr from ten to fifteen feet Ceet of snow Th The is the highest pass In Europe l exceeding nine thousand tho feet and connects the Adige valley of or Austria Austria Austria Aus Aus- tria witH the Adda valley lle In Ital Italy Snows Shows in that section invariably are arc followed b by avalanches which further bloc block tho the valleys l and available outlet outlets out out- lets let Passes Pa Blocked ll The enemy's eastern communications Into the tho- lie Friuli region are similar but it I Is bellowed believed the they are aro not s so o seriously affected railway lino IIno running southward along the upper o Is la blocked by heavy snows and avalanches Further east tast the route to Gorizia which pa passes ses through the Trans Alpine pass pasa of ot Feistritz is snowbound though two other routes across the Carso range are lreh less si affected 1 The rhe arc are that the enem enemy will bo be unable to calr carry on an any large opera operations pai Iia particularly on tho the moon monn- monn front t during the period that his communications arc aro snowbound |