ITALY'S DEFENCES
£85,000,000 APPROPRIATION
(Independent Cable Service.) (Received April 19, 9.30 a.m.) ROME, April 18. An extraordinary appropriation of £59,000,000 to "strengthen the fighting efficiency of the army" is announced. The money will be expended at the rate of £5,500,000 annually for ten years. tt is believed that it will be used principally in Albania and Libya and also 'or fortifications on the French fronier.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 91, 19 April 1939, Page 9
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