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• Although mushrooms are ..at usually found until March, they have, ■made their appearance in the district already. No doubt lids is .due to the warm rains which have fallen during the last few days, . About fifty or sixty young children spent an enjoyable afternoon yesterday wheny the annual Salvation Army. Young People’s picnic was held. On mo- to the wet weather, however, it had to b 0 bold in the haII, Games and races were indulged ih and eveiy one went away happily bearing a. prize. The death is reported by cable from Pome of General Cadorna, who was commander-in-chief of the ■t a iall forces at the commencement of the campaign against Austria, in 1915. He showed great strategic skill, especially iu the summer of 1916, when the Italian defensive wa s turned into an ofI tensive which contributed, with the splendid Russian advance, to the col lapse of Austria. After the disaster of Caporetto in October, 1917, when the fight of the second Italian army before, the Germans in the upper Ison/,0 Valley compelled a general retreat to the Piave, General Cadorna. was succeeded) as. commander-in-chief by General Diaz, and was appointed to represent Italy on the Allied War Council at Versailles. He was super--1 seded in 1918 by General Giardino.

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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 8, 27 December 1928, Page 5

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Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 Stratford Evening Post, Issue 8, 27 December 1928, Page 5

Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 Stratford Evening Post, Issue 8, 27 December 1928, Page 5