ANOTHER WAR LEADER PASSES

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 131, 2 March 1928, Page 9

ANOTHER WAR LEADER PASSES

ARMANDO DIAZ GENERALISIMO OF ITALY’S ARMIES By Telegraph.—Press association —Copyright. (Rec. March 1, 7 p.m.) Rome, February 29. Obituary: General Diaz, Commander-in-Chief of Italy’s armies during the .Great War. Marshal Armando Diaz was born "n 1861. He served in the Italo-Turkish

war, and in 1914 was promoted to majorgeneral. On Italy’s entry into the world war he was chief of the operations department, and in 1916 became lieutenant-general, and was appointed to the command of a division. In November, 1917, after the disaster to the Italian army at Caporetto, Diaz became chief of the general staff, and under him the battle front was successfully reconstituted, and the Austrian armies were eventually destroyed in the battle of Vittorio " Veneto (OctoberNovember, 1918). Diaz was subsequently nominated army general, and later became vice-president of the Armv Council. On the advent of the Fascist Government Mussolini appointed him Minister of War, and he held that appointment until ill-health obliged him to resign in April, 1924. In November, 1924, the newly-created rank of marshal was conferred on General Diaz.