Powers Try Out Military And Air Strength
(Received 3 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’s most important exercises since the war begin tomorrow. They will last for six weeks. The closest attention will be paid to mechanised divisions.
Meanwhile King Victor Emmanuel of Italy and Signor Mussolini are watching unusually modest exercises in the Abruzzi region, employing only 22,000 troops, but these are highly mechanised.
French alpine manoeuvres will also begin tomorrow in mountainous country, featuring mechanisation and aircraft co-operation.
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Northern Advocate, 9 August 1938, Page 5
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