[15] Archibald Hurd: Italian Sea Power in the Great War (Constable, 1918), p. 65.
[16] Hurd, ibid.
[17] By rifles I mean soldiers who habitually use their rifles, viz. the infantry, excluding machine-gunners, men attached to the transport service, etc., who are also armed with rifles.
[18] See [Appendix A].
[19] Military tribunals in the Italian Army are organized on a permanent basis.
[20] On the front in Italy the average sector held by a division of two brigades (the 35th had three) was 10,900 metres, but on the Western sectors of that front the troops were spread out very thin, whereas on the Asiago plateau and on the Carso the front of each division was much shorter. After Caporetto the average was reduced to 3,800 metres.
[21] Sarrail, op. cit. p. 219.
[22] Pages 206–7.
[23] General Sarrail in his memoirs tries to defend himself by publishing the orders of the French Government, which enjoined on him now an action in Greece, now an offensive on the front; but he does not appear to have put the question in clear language—either one thing or the other; if one was to be carried out he must have no arrière pensée for the other.
[24] Sarrail, “La Grèce Vénizéliste,” Revue de Paris, December 15, 1919.