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Lieut. General Sir Richard L. McCreery's Eighth Army, working the Adriatic coast, captured Ferrara and Padua, "the city of millionaires." With the 56th (London) Division in the van they entered historic Venice. Other units sped on to block the Udine and Belluno escape routes through the Tirolean Alps...
...Germans tried only to get away. Near Ferrara they abandoned more than 1,000 fuel-starved motor vehicles and fled on foot. At other places they harnessed up horses, oxen, cows and even human beings to move heavy equipment...
Perhaps as he began his last journey, he remembered the two epitaphs he had seen at Ferrara on another journey and whose "modesty" he had found "deeply moving": Said one: Martini Luigi...
Died. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, 71, for 27 years (1908-35) the beautifully bearded, autocratic, penny-pinching, respected artistic director and impresario of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera; at Ferrara, Italy...
...Corriere Padano of Ferrara, a minor Fascist organ, founded by Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya, took the crack at Bolshevism for which all Italians were itching: "We are born antiCommunists, and we intend to remain so. We have not an ounce of sympathy for the Bolsheviks, who are tragic buffoons, professional tricksters, models of vulgar bestiality, living monsters serving the most insane and infamous enterprise of subjugation, cruelty and human degredation which universal history can recall...