Show Y IS s REBUILDING I lAND WRECKED i BY BYAR WAR rican Sees Result of Reconstruction Work u I Dec ll 15 The lb-The The The American ambas- ambas r r. r Robert nobert Underwood Johnson who returned from a visit to the Piave Asiago sectors o of the Italian front front including including- much of the devas- devas fi region declares that the Italians progressing pr well in their efforts to toe toe e e these these war areas again fit for tor hab- hab ion I 1 doubt whether any other region of or orwar war would make a better showing of operation said Mr Johnson to the thet t c canted Press correspondent I FRENCH FIELDS I In April l I saw the devastated regions I ranee rance Thierry Chateau-Thierry to an anul ul sight which may be commended to toe I e who are ore willing to tak take the risk another great war Save for tor a few tew acks racks and isolated pieces of or repair lith lit- lit h had been done to rebuild 7 Today loday In the midst of equal Is hardly a town hi in Italy Haly Inich in lich ich 20 0 per cent of or the h houses uses have abeen renewed or repaired for tor oc- oc ncy ney and the p proportion o Jon is usually t 50 60 to 65 per r rp cent The e refugees I 1 them still living living- in the gover- gover I are hard at work N New w I I use se ses on handsome Italian models are II up evet every week The second story tor I I py have been destroyed but if Ir the 1 t has walls it is roofed and made madeL I fe table for the time Suitable I L RAGE IS STEADY The courage and resourcefulness of I time M was not greater than is that peace and both call for the admira- admira lof the world This needs to be ac- ac because Italy has had so much contend with first In the tho failure allure of I to years year's crops of wheat and corn com next the C cloudbursts d and floods and I dH o the disturbing rs bl Industrial kl con con- ons Fortunately the season has been d or build building In and for tor every man In ules ule seems ems to have become a carpenter mason Still this region with all the reconstruction that the govern govern- give faces a a. winter of hard- hard and severe cold he ho people of Trieste are not only 6 e and Industrious but gentle and sous and like most Italians they and ind to treatment We saw no evi- evi vi- vi I ice ce of of ot current violence which Indeed not directed against travelers but is iser er er Industrial or political and Is local machinery for tor silk and ond cotton man- man was all carried off ort by the Aus- Aus I ns ji 3 IN AGAIN of ot the inhabitants have had to the bottom but they are used to I 11 of or nature and with fairly Imal al conditions and a good harvest or orl i a 9 region n will be well wel restored s Johnson o n compared o Oi the I 1 itan battlefield on the Carso with the I ids of t famous u ua battles a of the Amer- Amer l V tAn An ih war and n declared r that t noth- noth Klat Jat Gettysburg or Bloody Angle was pre than the assault by which e el Italians won the precipice high which commanded I with it that Important town The pUs pU's ils Den on the Union left at not to be mentioned with I Getts these lands lands' th that t form so 80 strong a defense Trieste he added Let Let et it not be forgotten that the Ital- Ital s held a front of miles mlles that they it t 1 half a million killed and a million rId tola a half I wounded a and that they held t million and a half f fa of Jt Austrians ri from g the Western line |