roops renewed their efforts against the steep
rock barrier rising to more than 2,000 yards between the peaks of
Monte Chiesa and Monte Campigoletto. Under heavy fire from the
Austrian machine guns they crossed three lines of wire and succeeded
in establishing themselves just below the crest.

Again and again the Austrians launched attacks against the Italian
positions on these various mountains without, however, accomplishing
more than retarding the further advance of General Cadorna's forces.

The second anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War, August 1, 1916,
found the Italians on the Trentino front still strongly on the
offensive and well on their way toward regaining all of the ground which
they had lost in June and July, 1916, before the Austro-Hungarian
offensive had been brought to a standstill, while the Austrians were
yielding only under the force of the greatest pressure which their
opponents could bring to bear on them.

CHAPTER XXXVII

MINOR OPERATIONS ON THE AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONT IN TRENTINO OFFENSIVE

Just as soon as the Austro-Hungarian forces began to concentrate their
activities in the latter part of May, 1916, on their drive in the
Trentino, military operations in the other sectors of the
Austro-Italian front lost in importance and strength. During the
greatest part of both the Austro-Hungarian drive and the Italian
counteroffensive in the Trentino--May to July, 1916--operations along
the rest of the Austro-Italian fronts--on the northwestern frontier of
Tyrol, along the Boite River in the northeastern Dolomites, in the
Carnic and Julian Alps, and on the Isonzo front--were practically
restricted to artillery duels. Only occasional, and then but very
local infantry engagements took place, none of which had any
particular influence on general conditions in these various sectors.
However, as the Italian counteroffensive in the Trentino progressed,
there developed from time to time minor operations along the other
parts of the front. Quite a number of these were initiated by the
Austro-Hungarians, undoubtedly in the hopes that they might thereby
reduce the Italian pressure on their newly gained successes in the
Trentino. Others found their origin on the Italian side, which at all
times attempted to avail itself of every opportunity to extend and
strengthen its positions anywhere along the front. And as the Austrian
resistance against the Italian counteroffensive stiffened and showed
no si