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...Americans pushed a cautious advance toward Bologna, pulled back under heavy German artillery fire. The British stormed a railroad bridge north of Faenza four times, were driven back each time. The Canadians, who had cleared the enemy from 50 square miles between the Reno River and the Valli di Commacchio lagoon, met stiffer resistance and came to a halt...
Other forces of Lieut. General Sir Richard L. McCreery's Eighth were now across the Lamone River north and south of the Emilian Road town of Faenza, home of faience pottery. In the heavy rain, the British inched to within a mile and a half of the town against hard German counterattacks, in one day netted only 500 yards...
...battalion of Bersaglieri, crack, sharpshooting troops of the Italian Army, was trudging along a dusty road near the town of Faenza one day last week when it was overtaken by an official automobile. At the head of the column the car stopped. Out stepped Premier Mussolini, nattily decked in a snow-white uniform of the Fascist militia. The 54-year-old Duce took his place in front of the battalion, challenged the soldiers to a one-mile trot into town...
...Bersaglieri are famed for their ability to move for hours at a steady trot. However, no nimble-footed sharpshooter was brash enough to forge ahead and when the startled populace at Faenza rushed into the streets to welcome Il Duce, he was still in the lead. Congratulating the Bersaglieri on their condition, he gave their commander 3,000 lire ($157) to buy them special mess kits...
Benito Mussolini: " I was enjoying my usual sport of driving my red racer at a terrific rate when a police-man in Faenza arrested me, not knowing who I was. He took me before a magistrate and I was fined. Said I to the then trembling policeman: 'Always do your duty and fear nothing...