Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-10-26 | Page 4 | Aerial Trolleys Scale Alpine Peaks on Italy Front

j Aerial Trolleys Seals Alpine Peaks onlTaly Front Mountain lines are best defended by guns on tha heights commanding the main , peases, but these batteries may be si lenced by artillery mounted on higher ete- ; vatlona Bo tha struggle along the Austrottsllaa front has been to reach ths very skyline, the topmost peaks, and this tha Italians have done, thereby setting a record for Alpine warfare never before approached. By means of tha telefer-tca telefer-tca an aerial trolley In which email cars are suspended from cables, hen, guns, ammunition and even mules have been carried to positions le.00 to ll.00 feet above sea level. The teleferica which ellmbs to the tOO. foot summit of the F'aaublo la between three and four miles long, writes Walter R. Freeman In Popular alectianlrs, prob-ahly prob-ahly the lun-ceet r ; the Italian front Motor Mo-tor and pack anlmale carry supplies as fur as roads can be made; then the air Una must be followed. The ourrtey to tbe glurier M the 1'immlt of the A darnel- lo la over a remarkable route, tha first stags being by motor to tha lower station sta-tion of a teleferica. At the upper end Is a mule-power, narrow-gauge railway, which is followed by a sucreesion of tele-I tele-I f ericas and a dog-sled journey before the peak Is reached. These cables sway dan-geroualy dan-geroualy In a high wind, sometimes bringing two paaaiiig cars together wfth a craah. In the fat I of 11 a body of Italians was feverishly at work on a gun emplacement emplace-ment far up a mountainside. Suddenly they were Interrupted by a storm of bullet bul-let a. The Austrians had dragged a machine ma-chine gun to the summit of a (Entered pinnacle, SOOd feet above them. The situation sit-uation was critical, for the work must go on. An officer recalled that at one point on the teleferica the car came In sight of the enemy's position. . A machine gun wag mounted In the swaying; basket, camouflaged with a tarpaulin, and sent away. At the proper point tha cable was slopped, the Austrians were wiped out, ! and before they could do more damage t the big gun was In poaltlon to shower the ' j'lrnnrta with h!ch explosives. !