The next temptation to the Germans would be a massed
attack by the best part of the Austrian troops, reinforced by a large section of Germans, upon the Italian front. The plan would no doubt be to make a terrific drive down the Brenner, the old way of the Huns, somewhat in the manner that the Germans drove their wedge into the Russian front in Galicia, and to try to do for Italy and her rich and beautiful cities what has been done in Northern France. For ourselves, we believe that the Italian Army, which has been so finely tempered in the smithies of war, would be able to stand up against the assault of the Germans as well as it stood up against that of the Austrians, who, it may be remembered, sent their most formidable troops against Italy in the early summer of last year, and sent them in vain.
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