STRATEGIC ROAD.
LINK BETWEEN HUNGARY AND ITALY. BUILT TO CAREY HEAVY ARTILLERY. AUSTRIAN PRESIDENT OPENS HIGHWAY. (Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m.) VIENNA, May 30. The Austrian President, Herr Wilhem Miklas, inaugurated an important strategic road cutting from west to east through the Austrian Alps and rising to four thousand feet over Pack Pass, after which it is named. The road extends from Graz to Klagenfurt, 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 on Yugoslavia, as she possesses a direct connecting link with Hungary, whose frontier is 180 miles from the Italian and can now be reached by mechanised units in less than five hours.
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Wairarapa Age, 1 June 1936, Page 5
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