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THE PIEDMONT, GREENVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1917.

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WAR COST ITALY
FOUR BILLIONS
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Went Into the War Feeling
She Was Weak in Money,
Resources and Trained Sold-
iers, But Now Better Pre-
Pared.
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Rome, March 21.—A comprehensive
view of what Italy has been doing to
perfect her organization of military,
industrial and political forces may be
gathered from data given to the As-
sociated Press at the Ministry of
War, where it is declared that Italy
is now prepared to enter into a still
more vigorous prosectuion of the
war.

It is frankly stated that Italy be-
gan the war with a feeling that
she was a weak nation, poor in money
and material resources, with an army
that was unfitted to cope with that
of Austria which was far superior in
artillery and which for many years
had been planting heavy cannon in
the fastnesses of the mountains
that lie between her and Italy.

The Italian general staff, in com-
mand of General Cadorna, has never
made a secret of the fact that when
Italy's troops were first in May, 1916,
launched against the Austrian fron-
tier, along a 500-mile front, defend-
ed by 20 divisions (625,000 men) of
trained troops, it was with an Italian
army which perhaps a mere 200,-
000 men might be classed as trained
troops, and troops which were [inex-?]
ing in artillery support, even in the
very clothes needed to keep them
warm in the mountains. Nor has it
been a secret that, politically, Italy
began the war divided into to par-
ties, one of which against war
with Germany or any kind of war at
all.

Therfore, internally, one of the
big tasks of the general staff and of
the government has been to maintain
the nation's morale at the fighting
pitch by proving the nation's future
progress. Throughout the war, on
the one hand, the army has been kept
in tight control by Cadorna while in
Rome Baron Sydney Sonnino, the
head of the department of state, has
exercised a much-admired skill in
handling the opponents to the war. By
his continual presence at the front,
save for a total period of two weeks'
absence in Rome on governmental busi-
ness, the King has indicated his posi-
tion to the nation. The various anta-
gonistic anti-war efforts of the social-
ists have been overcome by the divis-
ion of that party through one of its
leaders, Leonida Bissolati, being tak-
en into the present cabinet, and also
through the influence of the Vatican
which is notably anti-socialist.

Cold Was First Enemy.

One of the first enemies the Ital-
ian general staff had to conquer, af-
ter its first leap into Austrian Terri-
tory, was cold upon the steep moun-
tains, mountains that for two-thirds
of its front vary from 7,000 to 11,000
feet in height. The cold is often 6
degrees below zero (Fahreheit). In
the first line trenches the soldiers had
to have the heaviest of clothing and
boots, while wooden barracks had to
be built for those in the second or re-
serve line. In addition, extra large
quantities of food and proper cooking
utensils had to be carried up to them,
and roads had to be built so that wa-
gons or automobiles could reach them
rapidly. For a single army corps, it
was necessary to provide 300,000
board planks, 280,000 woolen blank-
ets, shirts and pairs of socks, 80,000
waterproof capes, 60,000 furcoats and
10,000 fur sleeping sacks.

The Italian frontier trench line has
been continually maintained at a
length of 1,800 miles, counting the
second, third, and fourth line trench-
es that have been dug for reserve
purposes.

The new territory occupied beyond
the old frontier is no less than 132
[blurry] comprising an area of 9,-
060 square kilometers, with a moun-
tain population of 280,000 persons.

In order to reach the front through
this territory with the enormous quan-
tities of supplies needed, the combined
forces of the army's engineering
corps and that of Italy's department
of public works were required. These
two organizations began working in
the early part of the war and until
the present time have built 510 miles
of new macadam road and rebuilt
widened, and repaired 2445 miles of
other roads. Irrespective of the regu-
lar state railroad forces, these above-
named organizations have planned
and built upwards of 150 mils of air-
line cables for the handling of freight,
110 bridges and 200 miles of narrow-
guage railroad.

There has also been done an im-
mense amount of construction work
in the way of wooden or cement bar-
racks, storehouses, warehouses, hospi-
tals, schools, and cemeteries.

In order to procure the supplies for
this new army, beginning perhaps
with scarcely a half million men and
now estimated at three million, the
nation has put in operation a total
of 2179 factories, employing 408,940
persons of whom 72,824 men classed
as skilled workmen. This total num-
ber of factories and plants is sub-di-
vided into 65 military establishments
[proper?] employing 21,046 workmen and
12,474 women; 932 auxiliary factories
employing 844,702 workmen and 56,-
253 women. Of these latter 91 turn
out metal parts; 489 rifles, cannon,
aeroplanes, automobiles, projectiles
and cartridges; and 362 manufacture
explosives, chemical products, and
work over crude ores. There are,
further 1181 minor, projectile factro-
ies employing 85,000 persons. To these
totals must also be added a contless
number of uniform and clothing fac-
tories in every part of the land.

War Has Cost Four Billion.

The war so far has cost Italy some
$4,000,000,000 of which sum a little
over 1-3 has been obtained through
was losses subscribed by her own peo-
ple. Notwithstanding these popular
subscriptions and increased taxes, the
national savings bank shows a decid-
ed increase of deposits.

These deposits July 1, 1915, were
slightly over $300,000,000 and Janu-
ary 1, 1917, they had increased by
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amounting to one and a quarter bil-
lion dollars.

While Italy has officialy placed but
a single loan of $25,000,000 in the
United States, she is buying annual-
ly there upwards of $260,000,000 in
values. These war materials she her-
self cannot produce come chiefly from
the United States, such as cotton and
woolen cloth, mineral oils, shoes, iron
ore, steel manufacturs, coal, wheat
and horses.

The military activities of Italy on
land have primarily, that of
continually menacing Austria with
an invasion that might reach Vienna,
and thereby forcing her to maintain
a big army on this frontier, that
might have been used thereby con-
necting with the Anglo-French exped-
ition at Saloniki; and finally, of
blockading the Adriatic ports of Aus-
tria, protecting the Anglo-French ex-
peditions to Dardanelles and to
Saloniki, and aiding in the transpor-
tation of troops and material thith-
er.

Capture 85,000 Prisoners.

Italy has on her southern frontier
capture 85,000 Austrian prisoners
not counting a [broken type]able double that
number of killed and wounded. Italy's
army successfully handled the big
drive of the Austrians in the Tren-
tino last May and turned that drive
into a severe punishment of the Aus-
trians by the taking in August of
Goriza and other points on the lower
line toward the Adriatic; together
with some 40,000 prisoners. The Aus-
trian invasion began with 400,000 men
and 2,000 cannon all aimed at one
point between Brenta and Adige
rivers. The plan was no less than
to so defeat the Italians as to be able
to break across to the French fron-
tier and take in the rear the defen-
dors of Verdun.

The attack failed within three
days. It failed because of the rapi-
dity with which the Italians counter-
attacked in large numbers. Within
the space of two weeks they threw
across the Austrian path an army
transported from other sections of
the front using therefor 2,000 rail-
road cars and 1,000 automobiles to
cary 500,000 men, 76,000 horses, 15,-
000 carts, cannon, rations, ammuni-
tion, medicines and other material.

The difficulty of this movement will
be appreciated by the fact that the
troops were fighting in waterless
mountains and each day to those dry
plateaus were carried 460,000 quarts
of drinking water to the thirsty men.
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FRANCE MAY AGAIN
DEPEND ON GERMANY
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Coal Situation in France May
be Even Worse After War
Than at Present.
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Paris, March 20.—However press-
ing the problem of coal may be to
France in wartime, it will be even
more pressing with the return of
peace. Already the government is
studying possible industrial situation
before the war was continually ag-
gravated by the fact that France had
to depend on Germany for so large a
proportion of her supply of coal.
Everybody in France hopes that some
way out of a return to that condi-
tion of dependency may be found af-
ter the war.

The situation is complicated by the
French expectation that Alasce-Lor-
raine again will become French. The
return of thse provinces would seem
to mean virtually a doubling of the
nation's requirements of coal, owing
to the immense amount required for
the development of the iron deposits
in Lorraine. This means that instead
of doing with about 60,000,000 tons of
coal a year as before the war, France
will need more than 100,000,000 tons.

A French expert, Maurice [Alfassa?],
has just published a report showing
where France must obtain her coal
if she wishes to remain independ-
ence of Gremany. He indicates three
main sources. Development of the de-
posits of coal in France, England and
the Rhine, the output of which is es-
timated at 30,000,000 tons yearly.
This opens up the question of the fu-
ture of German territory west of
the Rhine, and M. [Alfasa?] suggests
that in the peace treaty the left bank
of the Rhine should be given a spcial
economic standing, enabling France to
remove some of the tariff walls which
existed before the war between her-
self and Germany.

M. [Alfasa?] suggests that the peace
treaty ending the war should provide
for the opening of the Rhine as a free
waterway for international trade.
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SAYS HE LIVED
ALWAYS IN DREAD
OF AWFUL EVENT
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Felt If He Did Not Keep Mov-
ing "I Would Just Fall Over
Dead," Says Madden.
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