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...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...
...Meets Stiffer Opposition...
...evacuate Finland, began to attack. Angrily, the Finns said a state of war existed with Germany, sent Foreign Minister Carl Enckell to Moscow to give the Government's answer. At week's end there was no sure sign whether Russia's terms to Finland would be stiffer, softer or about the same as those granted Rumania...
Crime? The court had rejected the stiffer formula of "conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman" which would have cashiered Colonel Colman. It acquitted him altogether of 23 violations of the Articles of War, involving various charges of illegally transferring soldiers, accepting gifts from favor-seeking civilians, making away with government property...
...intensified their hatred of the British. Lately Italy has been hit principally in the south, by American bombers from North Africa, and the effects have been similiar: more demands on Hitler for defensive fighters and ack-ack, considerable damage, and growing hatred of Americans, which may well mean a stiffer resistance to invasion...