pipe-lines

Updated: July 4, 2026

To supply these positions, water was pumped up by oil-engines, but the Austrians took care to destroy the pipe-lines as they retired. At the northern end of the Carso, in an angle formed by the junction of the Wippach and the Isonzo, the snowy towers and red-brown roofs of Gorizia rise above the foliage of its famous gardens.

E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell - Italy at War and the Allies in the West