The Italian General Staff has issued an account of the
highly successful spring offensive on the Isonzo and the Carso and in the Trentino, which was printed in Tuesday's Morning Post. TIM Italian Army is fighting with the greatest bravery and skill against a powerful enemy who holds the strongest natural defoncesinEurope. If its progress towards Trieste or Treat seems slow, that is because the difficulties of the ground are not fully appreciated in this country, except by a few geographers and Alpine climbers. The Italian Government might well consider the possibility of making its excellent Staff maps of the battle-area readily procurable in England. The average man finds it hard enough to follow Sir Douglas Haig's moves in Flanders, even with the numerous large maps that are published. We know of no maps, available in England, that will help him to understand the gallant efforts of our Italian Allies on the rugged plateaux of the Came and in the fastnesses of the Dolomites, where modem warfare seemed impossible.
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