Word: isonzo
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...Italian defeat is momentarily assuming graver proportions. With a hundred thousand prisoners taken, and most of the difficult mountain country already passed, there is a lively danger of the fall of Udine, and with this the capture of the Third Army across the Isonzo. Not since the days of the great German advance of August 1914, have the Allies been confronted with so serious a crisis. For should a catastrophe take place, then the way will lie open for the Germans to seize the rich Lombard plain, capture new ports for submarine bases on the Mediterranean, and even menace France...