GREAT AIR STRENGTH BUILT UP BY ITALY
PLANES TOTAL 1,800 VAST SUMS BEING SPENT By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Friday. The Rome correspondent of "The Times” says Italy possesses I.SOO airplanes, of which 1,000 could be utilised immediately for war purposes. Last year 420 were constructed. The Under-Secretary for Air, Signor Balbo, in explaining in the Chamber of Deputies the expenditure of £7,608,000 for military and civil aviation, claimed that Italy held third place in European civil aviation. She was only surpassed by France and Germany. Italy would open five new air lines in June, including connections with Spain. Germany and Tripoli. Signor Balbo recalled the fact that Italy holds the height and speed records and said she aims at capturing the records for distance and duration now held by America. In a message on the occasion of the ninth anniversary of the creation of Fascimo the Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini, draws attention to the forthcoming enrolment of 80,000 young Italians.- He says: “Thus every year the base of the pyramid is enlarged. Millions of -men form an armed guard for the Fascist revolution which is coinciding ever more closely with the nation.” —Times.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 313, 26 March 1928, Page 9
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