ished, pushed their offensive vigorously. Shortly after
the advance was begun along the whole right. Monte Cengio, which had
received an infernal bombardment for three days and nights, fell at
last, and the advance proceeded apace.

On June 26, 1916, Italian troops in the Arsa Valley carried strong
trenches at Mattassone and Naghebeni, completing the occupation of
Monte Lemerle. Along the Posina front, after driving out the last
Austrian detachments from the southern slopes of the mountain, the
Italians crossed the torrent and occupied Posina and Arsiero,
advancing toward the northern slopes of the valley.

On the Sette Comuni Plateau Italian infantry, preceded by cavalry
patrols, reached a line running through Punta Corbin, Fresche,
Concafondi, Cesuna, southwest of Asiago, and passing northeast of the
Nosi Valley, and occupied Monte Fiara, Monte Lavarle, Spitzkaserle and
Cimasaette.

On the right wing Alpine troops, after a fierce combat, carried Grolla
Caldiera Peak and Campanella Peak.

The inside workings of the Italian armies engaged in this offensive
movement are interestingly pictured in the following account from the
pen of the special correspondent of the London "Times," who, of
course, had special opportunities for observation:

"Thanks to the courtesy of the Italian Government and higher command,
I have been allowed to go everywhere, to see a great deal on the chief
sectors of a 400-mile Alpine border, and to study the administrative
services on the lines of communication.

"I have visited the wild hills of the upper Isonzo, have inspected the
strange Carso region on the left bank of the river, and have continued
my investigations on the Isonzo front as far as Aquileia and the sea.
I have threaded beautiful and rugged Carnia nearly as far west as
Monte Croce, have ascended the valley of the But to Mount Timau, where
the Austrians, as elsewhere, are in close touch, and, passing on to
wonderful Cadore, have visited the haunts of the Alpini above the
sources of the Tagliamento and Piave.

"Coming then to the Trentino sector, I have traversed the Sugana
Valley as far as was practicable, accompanied the army in its
reconquest of Asiago Plateau, and concluded an instructive tour by
ascending the mountains which dominate Val Lagarina to the point of
contact between the contending armies.

"The rest of the front, from the Lago di Garda to the Stelvio and the
frontier of Switzerland, is not at present the sc