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 Austria's Natural Citadels

���Austrian outposts watching the movements of Italian troops. Imagine the difficulty of storming this spot! Yet the Italians are every day attacking a seemingly impregnable mountain top. The suffering on both sides in the Alpine campaign is terrible, for the cold in the high altitudes is most penetrating, and snow-storms sweeping through the mountains cause the loss of many lives in both the contending armies

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