POWERS TEST THEIR MILITARY MIGHT
Manoeuvres In Europe London, August 8. Major Powers not engaged in active military intervention are carrying out theoretical tests of military and air strength by means of manoeuvres. Britain’s air manoeuvres will be supplemented extensively on land when the Army’s tno~"t important manoeuvres since the Great War begin to-morrow. They are to last for six weeks. The closest, attention will lie puid to the mechanised divisions. Meanwhile King Victor Emanuel and Signor Mussolini are watching unusually modest exercises in the Abruzzi region, employing only 22.009 troops, but highly meehanis d. French Alpine manoeuvres will also begin to-morrow in mountainous eoun try, featuring mechanisation and aircraft co-operation.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 269, 10 August 1938, Page 11
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