ARMY MANOEUVRES
TESTS OF MECHANISED FORCES IN BRITAIN AND OTHER COUNTRIES. PROGRAMMES IN ITALY AND FRANCE. (Recd This Day, 1.25 p.m.) LONDON, August 8. Major Powers not engaged in active military intervention are joining others in theoretical tests of military and air strength by means of manoeuvres. Britain’s air manoeuvres will be supplemented extensively on land, when the Army will carry out the most important manoeuvres since the war. They will begin tomorrow and will last for six weeks. The closest attention is being 'paid to the mechanisecj divisions. Meanwhile King Victor Emanuel and Signor Mussolini are watching unusually modest exercises in the Abruzzi region, employing only 22,000 men, but they are highly mechanised. French Alpine, manoeuvres also begin tomorrow, in mountainous country, featuring mechanisation and aircraft co-operation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1938, Page 6
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