AIR BOMBING

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20819, 1 June 1939, Page 9

AIR BOMBING

SUPPORT IN ITALY LESSONS OF TWO WARS LIFE COULD NOT EXIST (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) ROME, May 30 Stressing tbe effectiveness of air hombing, General Giuseppe Valle. Un-der-Secretary of State for Air. introducing the Air Estimates in the Senate, referred to the lessons of “ two wars which our aviation recently won.” General Valle said that'if Valencia. Barcelona and the centre of Madrid were still intact it was only because General Franco had wished to spare them: but the harbour quarters of Barcelona and Valencia today showed how an inhabited area could be reduced to a heap of ruins where it was impossible that life of any kind could exist. Air action against ships had been equally effective, and IG2 had been sunk or damaged in harbours in eastern Spain.

ITALY'S BKETCHY BUDGET DEFICIT OF £70,000,000 MORE TAXATION PROBABLE (Times Cable) LONDON. May 31 Additional figures quoted by the Italian Minister of Finance, the Marquis Paolo Thaom di Revel, further indicate the sketchiness of the Budget, says the Rome correspondent of tiie Times. The Minister admitted a probable deficit of £70,000,u0u in the current year, whereas the estimates shinved a surplus of £4,000,000. The Minister asserted that the deficit was due to civil requirement's, debt charges and Libyan expansion, but said lie anticipated that additional extraordinary expenditure would bring the uncovered total to £141,000,000. He hoped, nevertheless, to produce a Budget covering the entire imperial expenditure by means of effective taxation.