ANOTHER REMARKABLE FEAT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 15 July 1915, Page 5

ANOTHER REMARKABLE FEAT

MORE GOOD WORK BY THE ALPINE LONDON, July 13. The Alpini accomplished another remarkable feat. They scaled precipitous peaks, and dropped on the unsuspecting Austrians, driving them out of the trenches, and making prisoners of twenty. It seems impossible to choose a position safe from flank .attacks by these wonderful mountaineers.

AUSTRLVNI CAMPS AT GOR.Z BOMBED'. (Official.)' ROME, July 14A 'squadron of our aeroplanes effectively iboni'barded! a large enemy camp in tie neighbourhood of Gorz,

ITALIAN AIRSHIPS. Italv ns particularly well equipped -with airships; especially for her peculiar needs. In August, she had four 'Government built airships of 420,000 cubic feet capacity, each driven by two 250h'.p. engines; .and'having-'a speedrof 44 miles an hour • rind ability to -climb to about 7000 ft. These ships, which are built at Bracciano, are known as the "M," or "medium" type. She has also two -German built Parsevals of 350,000 cubic feet capacity, /each -with two 180h.p. Maybach engines, giving a. speed of 44 miles per'hour! She ha* a-lso a new "Forlanini," which has only just passed ker tests and- is said, to have performed verv well 'indeed, and she has "'VI," designed by Captain Verduzio, which came out some four months ago with four 180-h.p. Maybach engines, and proceeded to beat sundry airship records for speed and' height. For operations over- the mountains of Northern Italy these ships should be of the greatest value, for they can hang about over valleys and gorges where aeroplanes could" neither start nor land, and most of them have sufficient speed to work m quite a fair wind and sufficient climbing power to keep out of the way of any ordinary gun. ; For sea work, also,' they. will be very useful in patioling the Adriatic for they are faster than the fastest seacraft. Several of them : have already done quite good work in .daring the •\driatic of floating mines -which had broken loose from the Austrian defences at. Pol a and elsewhere. In tks way the airship crews have had plenty of practice. As pilots of- aeroplanes, and as airmen—using the word as being analogous to "seamen'V-the Italians rank with the first in the world. Ihey are quick and daring, as one would expect from a race which has produced many of fchfi finest living horsemen, for the horeeman's hand smd eye are just, what a flier needs most. In August ot last year, Italy had about 200 military pilots, and the number is -now very much greatei".