FORGOTTEN ARMY COMMANDER
In the Italian town of Pallanza. on Lake Maggiore, lives a retired Italian general, who has a modest pension of 19 lire a day (says the Rome correspondent of the “Daily Mail”). Lately he received an official letter from the Italian Minister of War, asking whether ho had yet had the .Military Gross. If not, he was asked to state how long he had served at the front under enemy fire, and which battles he had taken part in. The letter was returned marked “Evidently wrongly addressed/' and signed "Luigi Cadorna.” General Cadorna commanded the Italian Army in the war for two and a half years. It was he who instituted the reward of the Military Cross. Gonera! Cadorna was with two other generals placed on the retired list after the Germans broke through the Italian line on the Upper Isonzo in October. 1917. General Cadorna said the break-through occurred owing to the “lack of resistance of some detachments.” Subsequently he was the Italian representative on the Supreme War Council at Versailles.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 80, 28 December 1921, Page 8
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175FORGOTTEN ARMY COMMANDER Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 80, 28 December 1921, Page 8
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