The line continued with other field works reaching the Martignano area, with the nineteenth-century battery, then running along the eastern hill to the Fersina stream, pushing on to the fort San Rocco. At the outbreak of war, the city had about 30,000 inhabitants, two-thirds of whom left their homes in May 1915, when the transfer of civilians to Upper and Lower Austria, Bohemia and Moravia was organized. New inhabitants arrived in the city: tens of thousands of soldiers. Barracks were soon insufficient and many public buildings were requisitioned. Even homes abandoned by the locals were occupied by soldiers. The civilian population that remained in Trento had to deal with hunger, misery, rationed food and a city occupied by soldiers and the wounded. The last days of the war the Austro-Hungarian soldiers withdrew and the Italians arrived on November 3, 1918.
