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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. A recent message from the field headquarters of the Italian army says that the transportation romance of this 450-mile mountain, front, set down in Cold, hard figures, reads thus : 2,448 miles of railroad rebuilt or repaired ; 590 miles of new railroad built ; 150 miles of airline cables stretched for the teleferlca system ; 30,000 miles of telephone wire put up ; 10,000 new troop, hospital and freight buildings erected ; 200 miles of narrow gauge railroad laid in or behind the trenches ; 10 new bridges thrown across rivers and precipices to accommodate 2,040 miles of operating road. The work is credited to 120 civil engineers en-gineers of the government department of public works, aided by army engineers en-gineers proper; likewise by 200,000 workmen and 100,000 army mules, hitched to 50,000 wagons. The foregoing is the first official record 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, avalanches, snowfalls, rains, floods, frost, lack of material und all of the other Ills by which engineers en-gineers are beset. |
