TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. There is only one Footnote in this book, on page 166. This Footnote has been moved and placed directly under the paragraph that has its anchor [A]. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. SIX MONTHS ON THE ITALIAN FRONT WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR FROM THE ARCTIC OCEAN TO THE YELLOW SEA THE LAND OF GOLD FROM EUSTON TO KLONDIKE DAME FASHION MY BOHEMIAN DAYS IN PARIS MY BOHEMIAN DAYS IN LONDON [Illustration: _The Author in San Martino del Carso._ _From a snapshot by Robert Vaucher._ _Correspondent of the Paris L’Illustration._] SIX MONTHS ON THE ITALIAN FRONT _From the Stelvio to the Adriatic_ 1915-1916 By Julius M. Price _War-Artist Correspondent of the “Illustrated London News”_ NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 681 FIFTH AVENUE 1917 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE WESTMINSTER PRESS 411A HARROW ROAD LONDON W TO THE ITALIAN MILITARY AUTHORITIES in recognition of the courtesy and many kindnesses extended to me during my six months’ work with the glorious Army of Italy. NOTE I am indebted to the Directors of the _Illustrated London News_ for their kind permission to reproduce in this book the sketches and drawings I made for them whilst on the Italian Front, a great many of which have already been published. PREFACE As the reader will discover for himself, I have no pretensions to pose as a Military Expert. This book is the result of a few hasty impressions gathered over a period which, with all its minor inconveniences and little daily worries, I look back upon as among the happiest and best filled of a somewhat varied career. I have not yielded to the temptation to be interesting at the expense of veracity; to that fact the indulgent reader will, I trust, attribute many of the dull pages. If in the latter half of the book I have laid particular stress on the operations leading up to and culminating in the capture of Gorizia, I hope I may be forgiven, as I had the good luck to be the only foreign correspondent on the spot at these scenes of History-making. In my dedication I have paid a humble tribute to the many kindnesses I received at the hands of the Military Authorities, from His Excellency General Cadorna downwards. I can only repeat it here. JULIUS M. PRICE.