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Show STERN CALL ON ENGINEERS Italian Army Had to Fight Nature aa Well as the Forces to Which It Was Opposed. m A recent messoge from the field 1 headquarters of the Italian army says that the transportation romance of this j 450-mlle mountain front, set down la cold, hard llgures, reads thus: 2, US miles of railroad rebuilt or repaired ; I 61K) miles of new rullroad built; 150 1 miles of nlrlluo cubles stretched for W the telcferlca system; 30,000 miles of I telephone wire put up; 10,(100 new V troop, hospital and freight buildings ft erected; i00 miles of narrow gang fj railroad laid In or behind the trenches; W 10 new bridges thrown across rivers R and precipices to accommodate 2,040 W miles of operating road. 1 The work is credited to 120 civil en- I glneers of the government department I of public works, nlded by urmy cn- 1 glneers proper; likewise by 200,000 I workmen und 100,000 army mules, I, hitched to 00,000 wugons. W The foregoing Is the first otliclal rec ord of the exact extent of the construction con-struction work on this front, carried on steadily for 18 months, despite enemy ene-my artillery, avulunehes, snowfalls, rains, Hoods, frost, lack of material and all of the other ills by which engineers en-gineers ure beset. |