ITALY AND HUNGARY
NEW STRATEGIC LINK AUSTRIAN PRESIDENT OPENS ROAD VIENNA, May 30. President Miklas today inaugurated an important strategic road, cutting from west to east through the Austrian Alps and rising to 4000 feet over the Pack Pass, after which it is named. The road extends from Graz to Klagenfurt, a distance of 95 miles, and has been six years under construction under the advice of Italian officers. The surface is sufficiently strong to carry heavy artillery, while the mountain curves are especially broad. Italy has thus increased her strategic influence on Austria and Hungary and, indirectly, Yugoslavia, as she possesses a direct connecting link with Hungary, whose frontier is 180 miles from the Italian frontier. This can now be reached by mechanised units in less than five hours.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 128, 1 June 1936, Page 9
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