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A few puffy clouds hung above Italy’s Friulian Mountains, to the south.

October was nearly over, and the cold in that Friulian climate was very sensible.

On all sides, except towards the south-west where it unites with the Friulian lowland, it is surrounded by mountains, and about four-sixths of its area is occupied by mountains and hills.

Among Italian folk-poets the Friulian is foremost as a lover of the greater heights; he turns to them habitually in his moments of poetic inspiration, and, as he says, their echoes repeat his sighs.

June 8—Fierce fighting is in progress at the Isonzo River; severe fighting also is going on in the Friulian sector.