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Along the Ligurian coast Major General Edward Almond's task force, among them Negro and Japanese-American troops, captured Italy's chief naval base of La Spezia. Farther north, Genoa, Italy's first commercial port, was freed...
Partisans Up. There was little resistance. Fortified positions were found abandoned. Yugoslav Partisans captured Trieste. Everywhere Italian partisan units emerged from hiding. At Milan, Genoa and many another place they forced the surrender of German garrisons before Allied troops arrived. Near Como they caught and shot Benito Mussolini (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...withdraw his small army successfully to the fierce crags of the Dolomites, which form a better defense line than any he has held heretofore. There, on the frontier, he should be able to keep General Sir Harold Alexander from penetrating into Austria. But then Milan, Turin, Genoa, the whole Po Valley would have to be abandoned. And the war in Italy would be over...
...news last week from the tactically disconnected sectors of this interconnected front, stretching a thousand crazy miles from west of Genoa to the mouths of the Danube...
...Acquired a fleet of 21 coastal ships to bring food to the "hard-pressed people of Rome and Vatican City." The ships will operate between Rome and Genoa, flying the Vatican flag...