"HUMAN" WARFARE.
Mass Attacks By Bomb-Filled Aeroplanes. " SHORTENS STRUGGLE." (Iteoeiveil 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 17. "The Times" Koine correspondent gives an illuminating passage from General Ci. Valle's speech in the Chamber of Deputies justifying Signor Mussolini's concept of mass attacks by aeroplanes dealing hammer blows on sectors where they could do the most damage. Ordinary frontal attacks in war, he said, led only to stagnation and prolongation of the csnflictt The most logical way of humanising warfare consisted of efforts to shorten the struggle, even at a very high cost. For that reason, Italy was forming homogeneous air units, stronger than the group, and adapting the air corps as a development of air divisions, each consisting of 100 machines, each carrying a ton of bombs, with a range of 12">0 miles and a speed of 250 miles per hour.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 8
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