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Such were the heroic words gasped out by a desperately wounded Italian Colonel during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12. Death was, however, not quite ready to snatch away Armando Diaz, then 51, and quite unknown outside the Army. By a miracle he recovered from his battle wounds and lived to die, last week, in bed, of bronchial pneumonia, at 66. The 15 years of grace thus granted by Death had enabled Colonel Diaz to become Marshal Diaz, the nation's military idol, the first commander to lead United Italy from national defeat to national victory...
...that moment, with Italian Commander-in-Chief Luigi Cadorna in desperate retreat, the Third Army was found to be masterfully holding its own. The successful Third Army General was Armando Diaz. Cadorna was brushed aside and Diaz became Commander-in-Chief on Nov. 9, 1917. Within 360 days he had not only retrieved the losses of Caporetto but shattered the Austro-Hungarian armies and forced the Dual Monarchy to sign an abject separate peace...
Died. Field Marshal Armando Diaz, 66, in Rome...
Next morning at 1 a.m. Armando Andre y Alvarado, owner of the newspaper El Dia was motoring home. Like Senor Govea he had been a vigorous opponent of the Machado administration. In fact Senor Andre, who was Captain of port police under the Zayas administration lost his job the day the Machado administration took office and on the same day began to attack the administration through El Dia. As he reached his home shortly after 1 a.m. last week, a white man and a Negro suddenly shot him down on the sidewalk. His murderers were sought...
Interior ................Armando Jaramillo