Show STERN CALL ON E ENGINEERS ENGINEERS' r Italian Army Had to Fight Nature as asWell asWell Well as the Forces to Which It A Was Opposed f 1 f fA A recent message from froni the field headquarters of the Italian army says that the transportation romance of this of-this this mile mountain front set down l In cold hard figures reads thus 2448 miles of railroad rebuilt or or miles of new railroad built miles mlles of airline cables stretched for forthe forthe the system miles mlles of of telephone wire j put up new troop hospital rind and nd fr- fr freight fright ight buildings erected miles of narrow gauge railroad laid in or behind the tren trenches h s 10 new bridges thrown across rivers and precipices to accommodate 2040 miles of operating road 1 The work is credit credited d to civil engineers engineers en en- of the government department of public works aided by army engineers engineers engineers en en- proper likewise by workmen and army mules hitched to wagons j i iThe The foregoing is the first firs official record rev rec revord ord of the exact extent of the construction construction construction con con- work on this front fron carried on steadily for 18 months despite enemy enemy enemy ene ene- my my artillery avalanches snowfalls rains rain's floods frost trost la lack k of material and all of the other ills by which engineers engineers en en- are beset |